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Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?
- sakoht 10y agoGet good at building excellent front-ends. I have been doing scalable back-end systems for years and can tackle interesting problems quickly. But, with UI work, I am like an infant with crayons. It takes too long to go from desire to product.
- silvaben 10y agoGrowth hacking. I'd like to learn how to sell a SaaS product[1] to businesses. I'd also like to explore content strategy and marketing. As a software developer joining a new 2-person startup, this is uncharted territory for me. Looking forward to the experience. [1] https://www.metriculator.com https://www.metriculator.com
- apapli 10y agoLooks neat. It's also worth you looking at CES (Customer Experience Score). CES feeds into NPS... eg NPS is a result of lots of CES's, so to improve NPS you actually need to look at the core issue(s) that may be impacting it. You might be able to build CES into your offering as well.
- silvaben 10y agoGreat idea. Adding it to our roadmap. The idea is that we will initially start off with in-app NPS, then explore other channels like email campaigns, SMS, Android and iOS SDKs. Once we have the entire workflow for NPS worked out, we can look at customizable surveys and other survey types.
- apapli 10y agoThat sounds good. I think your challenge will be that organisations who offer online resources (client portals etc) or mobile apps probably also have CRMs, so could replicate your product pretty easily. That said, if you can feed your data straight into the 2 leading CRMs globally (salesforce and dynamics 365) you might be able to leverage them to your advantage.
- silvaben 10y agoYes, integrations are the key. We are currently working on a Zapier integration since that is the easiest way to connect with multiple 3rd party APIs. Later on, we will add support for Salesforce and other CRMs.
- Croaky 10y agoMy favorite growth resources are Brian's essays at http://www.coelevate.com/ http://www.coelevate.com/
- silvaben 10y agoThanks for the suggestion. I am also an admirer of Brian's writings. Other resources that I have started referring to are - frequenting Inbound.org and GrowthHackers.
- callmeed 10y agoThere's several good blogs out there but I really suggest reading Traction [0]. It's well organized and very practical/easy to put into action. I've bought copies for multiple people (including my wife who recently joined a startup doing marketing). Also you used the word "sell". Don't forget that sales is different than marketing. If you plan on doing real sales the book Predictable Revenue is great (though designed for slightly larger teams than just 2). Good luck! And don't forget, NPS tools are good for brick and mortar businesses too. [0] http://tractionbook.com http://tractionbook.com
- silvaben 10y agoTraction book seems interesting and is highly recommended by a lot of people. I plan to buy a copy and read it over the holidays. I've got a few broad ideas for marketing - direct "cold-connecting" via LinkedIn, Angel; long term content strategies and Facebook/Bing ads. Approaching brick and mortar businesses seems challening, especially since I don't have a background in sales. I have a feeling that online startups might be more approachable to begin with. Adding Predictable Revenue to my next year's reading list. Thanks for the suggestion.
- IndianAstronaut 10y agoStarting a company involves so much marketing. SEO, SEM, etc. In the SEO domain, you need to pay a lot of attention to blogs and sites like Moz, rank tracking with services like getstat, make sure you aren't doing anything blackhat.
- tim333 10y agoVincent Dignan's stuff is quite jolly eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYexcPB8WG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYexcPB8WG0
- jrsowers 10y agoI've grown up on the marketing side of the house, so if you want to exchange ideas and feedback feel free to reach out via james@craft.cx.
- markhollis 10y ago* How to make a simple MMORPG. * Understand what toposes are. * Understand what monads are.
- LeanderK 10y agoA recommendation for monads. Don't read too much tutorials, try it. Programm in some languages that emphasises monads and then reflect how you used them. I think these fundamental concepts are way easier to experience than to explain. Edit: what are toposes and why do you want to learn it? Has it some connection to topology?
- gaius 10y agoAll the "monad tutorials" are utter crap. Esp. the one with the burritos in spacesuits. All you need to know is that a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors and it all comes naturally from there.
- tobbe2064 10y agoIt sort of a theory about the object at the intersection between logic and geometry
- tobbe2064 10y agoFor monads, learn the following concepts in order: Category Functor Natural transformation Adjoint functor That's it. If you don't understand what monads are you should probably wait with topos theory. It quite abstract and you should probably be comfortable with both algebraic geometry and category theory before you approach it
- androng 10y agoHow to ask people for their problems and hire developers to make scalable products for me instead of selling my individual programming time for money.
- jefferson123 10y agoMaybe consider partneting with someone who is good at that already
- baristaGeek 10y ago1) Deep Learning 2) Figure my way around DevOps 3) Get more proficienet with ES6 and Go
- DigitalJack 10y agoI want to learn compiler development. My goal is to get enough of an understanding to be able to work on other people's compilers, such as SBCL. I'd like to: -Build a lisp that targets LLVM IR -Build an HDL out of lisp that can be compiled into a simulation, as well as be compiled to a netlist for synthesis. -Build a testbench toolkit out of that same lisp.
- agumonkey 10y agoI have that planned for a long time. I've been making progress in recursive thinking and thus compilation and interpretation last year (thanks to a prolog book). I may attempt the LLVM thing in 2017. This or a bootstrapped forth, x86 64 or maybe AARCH64. Do you have a blog ?
- DigitalJack 10y agoNo blog. It just seems like something I can't quite get the hang of... the writing part that is. Maybe I'll add that to my 2017 list.
- mynameisbahaa 10y agoWhat is the name of that "prolog book" ?
- agumonkey 10y agoIt's Ivan Bratko's book. I think he only wrote one about prolog.
- mynameisbahaa 10y agoThank you :)
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- duiker101 10y agoHow to actually promote the stuff I do in a more extensive way than a single reddit thread.
- garysieling 10y agoThere is one HN comment I come back to periodically for ideas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341288 I collected a list of videos from some business conferences I really like, you might get some ideas in here - https://www.findlectures.com/?q=marketing&p=1&type1=Conference&talk_type_l2_Conference=Business https://www.findlectures.com/?q=marketing&p=1&type1=Conferen...
- duiker101 10y agoThanks man! I'll check it in 2017! Joking! I'm going to dive in it right away!
- garyfirestorm 10y agoLearning to apply deep learning, ai etc in solving practical problems
- cvoss 10y agoI'd like to learn to leverage collaboration and the societal politics of my field to help achieve bigger and more impactful projects. Being a loner is only going to get me so far, I've realized. (I'm a grad student.)
- dumb-saint 10y agohttp://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o... (you're welcome)
- JoshTriplett 10y agoGood call. You can be the best developer in the world, in a job that leaves you alone and lets you write code, and you might get several times as much done as another developer. Or you can spend a little less time writing code and have a few productive meetings and discussions, resulting in far more development than you could ever do alone. And you'll still get to write plenty of code.
- petecooper 10y agoMindfulness. JavaScript. How to have fun. Not necessarily in that order.
- duiker101 10y agoYou might struggle mixing mindfulness and Javascript. Or Javascript and fun. EDIT: yhea fine this was a bit insensitive and mostly a joke sorry, I wont delete as proof of my mistake. Javascript it's not that bad.
- grzm 10y agoThere's no need for this kind of uncivil, clichéd comment. Please be charitable when people are laying out their goals.
- petecooper 10y agoFor what it's worth, I didn't find it insensitive.
- Insanity 10y agoThought it was pretty funny and quite clearly a joke. No mistake was made imo.
- smnplk 10y agoTo me it's funny because it is true. :) True for me.
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- cup 10y agoSomali. The resources for learning the language are extremely limited however.
- kakaorka 10y agoWhy Somali?
- gaius 10y agoLearn to use radios on land, get into packet radio perhaps.
- mistermaster 10y agolearning how to build a microservice architecture. some deep learning!
- vijayr 10y agoAny resources you are using to learn micro service architecture?
- DanBC 10y agoI want to learn to drive and get a UK driving licence.
- gaius 10y agoI'd advise against the one week intensive courses - the muscle memory just takes time to build. A one hour lesson once a week is about right, with maybe an hour more practice per week if you can persuade a friend to take you out. Allow one week per your year of age is the rule of thumb. Good luck!
- jimnotgym 10y agoI think you can do more than one per week but I agree, it does take time to build the muscle memory. I learned in my early 20's and I did it in 6 weeks. Get the theory part out of the way ASAP. When you have got your license is the time to watch out for complacency. The road is full of egos driving Audis, don't get involved. Keep a safe gap and you will deal well with uncertainty
- sergiotapia 10y agoI want to write a real, hand-holding example for using GenStage and Elixir for a real tangible feature. The official documentation sucks and does nothing to illustrate how to use it in a real setting. I've tried to understand what it does and how it works about once a month for the past four months but I still don't get it. http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2016/07/14/announcing-genstage/ http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2016/07/14/announcing-genstage/ Hopefully I can understand it soon, and further cement my understanding by writing a real example for people to learn from. It sounds very powerful and useful but damned if I know how to use it lol.
- enraged_camel 10y agoCheck out these videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp01DFl8kp-239gW289C0ew https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp01DFl8kp-239gW289C0ew
- davedx 10y agoI found this post educational: https://discord.engineering/how-discord-handles-push-request-bursts-of-over-a-million-per-minute-with-elixirs-genstage-8f899f0221b4#.qc1dhtiwk https://discord.engineering/how-discord-handles-push-request...
- slashdotdash 10y agoTuning GenStage/Flow pipeline processing[1] is a good, albeit brief, real-world example. [1] http://teamon.eu/2016/tuning-elixir-genstage-flow-pipeline-processing/ http://teamon.eu/2016/tuning-elixir-genstage-flow-pipeline-p...
- s_c_r 10y agoVim. I'm a notepad++ and PHPStorm user but I've gotten curious about the potential productivity gains afforded by the vim power user functions.
- jxm262 10y agoCame in to say this :) If you want to maybe pair up or some sort of structured learning on it, let me know. Could be cool to have a partner or some accountability. Although might be silly to do for learning an editor , ha.
- joe563323 10y agoI use vim and emacs both. From a power user standpoint emacs is better. From faster edits perspective vim is better. I am sure most will agree with this view.
- pvdebbe 10y agoPerhaps the best of both worlds -- spacemacs from the get-go? Personally I don't like these Emacs distributions so I might recommend the way I did my journey: first vim for years, then emacs+evil. You'll learn the bare emacs basics on the side. Now with Vim 8 having vastly enhanced IPC capabilities, Emacs might not be at such an advantage anymore. The amount of Vim users is staggering, and they have such energy. It's a nice community overall. (Not that Emacsers would be any worse.)
- tixzdk 10y agoPony! Seems like a very interesting language that doesn't get much exposure. Predictable GC, fine grained capabilities, actor model (concurrent by default), no deadlocks etc. http://ponylang.org http://ponylang.org
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- handedness 10y agoPatience.
- Ocerge 10y agoI want to learn how to even start a side-project. I've been out of university since 2012 and have done basically nothing in my free time CS-related. Every time I start to even think about doing something, that "why are you working while on your free time" feeling comes up and I immediately do something else. Not sure if it means I really don't love programming and Computer Science after all (entirely possible) or if it means I'm just lazy. My goal is to find out one way or another.
- LouisSayers 10y agoI think the trick is to find something you're truly excited about. It's not work if you're enjoying the thing you're doing. Perhaps the problem is you're wanting a side-project for the wrong reasons.
- grardb 10y agoThis. Aside from a hackathon or two, I have "completed" exactly one side project since graduating in 2013. There were numerous times I started projects and quickly gave them up, and it was simply because my goal was to have a side project, which is not really a goal at all. This year, my girlfriend and I were using Google Sheets to track our expenses and compete to see who could spend less money. We eventually decided it'd be a way better experience if we had a dedicated app for it, so I worked relentlessly to build one and polish it up until I was pretty proud of it. I "released" it to a couple of online communities where I thought people might be interested, and I gained exactly 1 active user who I don't know in real life. It's all good, though, because my girlfriend and I use it every day, so that's all that matters to me :D But yeah, it can be difficult to "scratch an itch" if you feel that nothing needs scratching. If that's the case, I wouldn't really worry about it. If you don't need to build anything, then don't spend time building anything. It's nothing to feel bad about.
- hhimanshu 10y agoI have made one side project ever since 2013 (I am working from 2011 and made few failed project, but learnt a lot). In 2013, we had exactly same problem - tracking expenses and do personal budgeting. My wife was using spreadsheets and I created a software (using Python and Flask) and released a webapp. Later we realized that an app would be much more useful, so rewrote the backend (Java EE) and front-end(Objective C), but never released it. We have however 3 years worth of our own data (never did analysis or charts). Lately, we feel that since our app never made to App Store, it crashes every 7 days and I need to reinstall/use XCode to do this work (very painful). I plan to rewrite again in Scala (my latest favorite) and use React-Native to build the app. This time I would like to publish it
- feiss 10y agoHow to balance family life and work
- th00m 10y agoHow to master theoretical material and consolidate the things I learn. I've basically stumbled my way through a Computer Science Undergraduate degree without actually understanding anything I've really done.
- parthdesai 10y agoLearn to have hobbies? Right now my life consists of Commute->Work->commute->gym->sleep. I actually don't look forward to weekends since there is nothing to occupy my mind.
- Razengan 10y agoPick some books to read or gaming handhelds to play during the commute? Once you like something you'll look forward to continuing it in peace on the weekends.
- parthdesai 10y agoI usually sleep while going to work, but yes i do read on the way back. But still doesn't leave much to do on weekends. I usually end up doing some work and going to gym. Not having a car doesn't help. :(
- Razengan 10y agoHow long is your daily commute? Perhaps you could change your routine a bit, and consider going to work on a bicycle. It could reduce the need to hit the gym every weekend, and seeing new sights and sounds on the way to work may open you up to new hobbies. :)
- ancarda 10y agoSpanish. But more generally, how to get into a routine for learning something. I have Duolingo and Memrise but I forget to open them every day.
- iammiles 10y agoFor me I found it was easiest to cut some reading time down at night before bed, and dedicate 30 minutes to a Duolingo lesson a night.
- sharp11 10y agoHave to suggest my app: http://supercocoapp.com http://supercocoapp.com Would love to get your feedback. It's designed to give you practice actually using (speaking) Spanish. Totally different from Duolingo, Memrise, et al, which I find unbearably tedious.
- ancarda 10y agoThanks, I'll check it out!
- 6t6t6t6 10y agoGet a Spanish or Latin American boyfriend/girlfriend. It's, by far, the best way to learn languages.
- pasbesoin 10y agoI'm coming 20-30 years late to the "biology is the future" mindset. In my case, personal health has left me no choice. Some poor medical advice and treatment, combined with my adversity to the whole topic -- yes, strong squeamishness combined with fear/observation that thinking about adverse events seemed (seems!) to instantiate them. That all has left me with a substantial health burden. Meanwhile, in my experience the current U.S. health care system seems to be -- technological "miracles" aside -- making getting effective treatment ever more difficult. So... As with everything else, it seems, you can't rely on expert consult -- even when you can afford it -- but rather have to learn and do -- or at lease prescribe and manage -- everything yourself. So... biology. In other words, I need to belatedly read up on the owners manual. And find some hacks that help me. As an aside, we're about to the point of molecular programming. So, maybe this will coincide with the current leading edge in technology, anyway.
- LouisSayers 10y agoI'd like to learn more about the biology and psychology of the mind. Also about the ageing process.
- teejayvanslyke 10y agoHow to effectively market my consulting skills. I've been a web developer for over a decade now and I'm still not confident in my ability to bring in consistent work. The work comes, but I'd like to have more potential clients knocking. From what I can tell, the best way to achieve that is by consistently offering to help others with my skills. So I'm making it a point in the coming year to make blogging a part of my work routine. Are any of you facing the same dilemma? I'd love to hear your insights!
- grardb 10y agoI have a hard time breaking into the consulting/freelancing world. I really like the idea of working part-time during off hours for extra cash, but it's proven to be quite difficult for me. I think part of it is that I'm not loud enough, and I think it comes from being an introvert. I'm confident, I'm not shy, and I know I'm skilled enough to work on lots of stuff, but when it comes to marketing myself, networking, small talk with strangers, or anything else like that, I just have the hardest time. It also doesn't help that a lot of opportunities to meet potential clients are found in non-professional settings, and those events are usually centered around the consumption of alcohol in the presence of loud music. I cannot stand loud music and I don't drink alcohol, so the difficulties for me just seem insurmountable.
- smnplk 10y agoHave you tried any of the online freelance market places, like toptal, upwork, peopleperhour..etc ?
- grardb 10y agoI have, but with zero success. I've read awful things about Toptal and PeoplePerHour, so I didn't really go for them. Upwork seems to be filled with developers from various parts of Asia where the low cost of living allows them to bid way lower than what I would charge. The quality of work also seems pretty bad, from what I can tell (one-sentence descriptions, bad grammar, crazy low budgets, etc.). I've seen advice like, "If you charge high instead of trying to compete with low bidders, you'll be taken seriously," but then there's the issue of having 0 clients/reviews/ratings, which make it hard to command a high rate. I did have one client on Codementor.io! He didn't give me a review, though, even though we had three sessions and he seemed to be super happy with my help :/
- franciscop 10y agoRobotics. I know some basic Arduino and would love to build a wheeled thing with a robot arm. Maybe with a camera in streaming. This is super wisful thinking though, if I can make the wheeled thing (with power electronics) I'll be happy.
- gravypod 10y agoI want to learn to weld, machine, and develop electronics
- FLUX-YOU 10y agoThose computer science fundamentals that let you ace all of the big company interviews so I can actually move somewhere else and feel confident in getting a job.
- rajington 10y agoShipping
- PascLeRasc 10y agoMaterial properties and manufacturing. I'd like to learn more about heat transfer and heatsink design as well.
- cgh 10y agoI want to learn: 1. Whether I can climb V11. 2. Rust well enough so it doesn't feel like a wrestling match any more. 3. How to do a handstand.
- supernintendo 10y ago3D modeling and animation. I know this is a field that takes years to master but I'd love to be able to design my own characters and objects for games and video composites.
- rayalez 10y agoGreat goal! I highly recommend to check out Nevercenter Silo for modeling, and Maya or Houdini for animation(Maya is the most popular, and Houdini is the most awesome).
- gemalandaverde 10y agoI would love to learn how to focus in one damn area of CS, I have been doing some IT Security but it's sooo wide and there are sooo many things to learn and ace and I don't think I'm Linux /programming /DBA /Networking / robotics savvy at any of these... I'm just confused about how to direct my career... Oh and I'm 35 hehe
- contingencies 10y agoImprove my skills in Solidworks and overall mechanical engineering design expertise, as well as electronics and manufacturing. Outside of work, perhaps one day a week or less, I am planning to take some of my photography and turn in in to wood carvings using a custom automated workflow via commercial laser cutters. Allows me take the best of digital by working in vector, but maintain the satisfaction of an analog result by printing a tangible, physical result.
- xrjn 10y agoI want to learn and play with LoRa. It's a 'IoT' technology that allows you to communicate over long distances using amateur (unlicensed) radio bands. Some of my friends have achieved distances of over 40km, and I'm curious to see what I can do with it. So far I've been able to get a ping between two modules over a 10m range. Next up I'd like to transmit some useful data over longer distances (temperature for example), and then move on to devices that provide useful data (eg when a train passes a certain point to see if it's on time).
- Raed667 10y agoI have played with LoRa using Arduinos and an RPi that forwarded the transmissions to a web-service. Going from the 'hello world' ping to data is an extremely easy step using the right library.
- xrjn 10y agoI'm sure it's easy, however right now the range part is where the blockage is: I get a SNR of -11 and RSSI of -107.. which results in just a few meters of transmission. Using a Draguino Lora Shield + Hat combination, with the antenna which was in the box. Dunno what I'm doing wrong - what hardware and library did you use?
- Raed667 10y agoI have used the SX1272 module with the multiprotocol radio shield. https://www.cooking-hacks.com/documentation/tutorials/extreme-range-lora-sx1272-module-shield-arduino-raspberry-pi-intel-galileo/#step3_2 https://www.cooking-hacks.com/documentation/tutorials/extrem...
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- rayalez 10y ago- I have learned the foundations of Node, React/Redux, and Docker, and in 2017 I want to get really competent and confident at that. I would also like to figure out how to use ActivityPub. - I want to get really good at making my video tutorials about digital art. - And I want to get way better at making my webcomics.
- thiht 10y agoDocker Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos/Marathon I'd really like an opportunity to work with these, I find the whole ecosystem really appealing
- lj3 10y agoWebassembly, graphical design, sales and marketing. It's time to anti-fragile my income stream by making lots of side projects and getting some of them to make money. 12 months of 2017, 12 potential side projects.
- salatin 10y agoGuitar, German, Meteor
- techplex 10y agoFor Meteor, I highly recommend the Discover Meteor book. It is a bit behind the times but you'll get the foundation from which to learn the new state of the art as described in the meteor guide.
- rajangdavis 10y agoI want to learn Hindi; TDD for Ruby, Rails, Elixir and Angular 1.5; how to have a better work life balance; and some more advanced guitar technique.
- hackerboos 10y agoWhy Angular 1.5 may I ask?
- rajangdavis 10y agoIt's what I know best haha. It works well with a legacy/enterprise stack that I work with. I can't really get the benefits of Angular 2 ( Typescript, Server Side Rendering, better? component system) with the stack that I use, but I will be looking into React for some potential Ruby/Rails apps.
- sudshekhar 10y agoNative hindi speaker here. All the best with your hindi effort. I don't have any resource recommendations to give but if you wish to ever talk or clarify hindi concepts, you can hit me up. Only yesterday, I was cribbing about the lack of quality hindi content on the web. Time I actually started trying to do something about it >_> .
- rajangdavis 10y agoThank you! I saw this http://www.learning-hindi.com/ http://www.learning-hindi.com/. Going to try to learn from my mom as well; I used to know how to speak it when I was really young, but forgot over the years.
- developer2 10y agoMy goal for 2017 is to fully figure out Docker. The majority of information out there, including tutorials and blog articles about others' successful deployments, comes in the form of very high-level overviews. Everything I've found is an introduction to getting a basic docker instance running. There is very little useful information out there as to how to run a proper multi-host cluster. There is core Docker. Tack on docker-machine, docker-compose, Swarm, and the dozens of 3rd-party cluster management abstractions such as Rancher - and the intensity of the headache never stops growing. It sounds wonderful, but there is so much to learn to be able to tackle a full production stack. It's one thing to successfully launch a working cluster after hours of manual tinkering. It's a separate beast altogether to fully automate setting up a new cluster by issuing a single command, taking into account consistent configuration of: secure networking, persistent volumes with backups, deployment of container configuration and VCS codebases (ex: nginx vhosts and your code itself), etc. My goal is to set up an entire project in such a way that there is a single suite of automation that can deploy all environments: development VM, staging, and production.
- cutety 10y agoThis is also one of my goals for 2017. I've been using Docker on my project at work for about 8 months, but only in development and CI. I really want to start a push to begin testing usage in production, but have no idea where to begin. It's hard to find information that strings everything together. I feel comfortable with using it in development, but production seems to be an entire different beast.
- JBerlinsky 10y agoAre you looking to automate infrastructure-as-code in there, as well? I've lost many a night to trying to get Rancher to play nice with Terraform, especially in high-availability mode. Luckily, it appears that the process has been vastly simplified in recent rancher-manager releases.
- developer2 10y agoOh great, you've just added Terraform[1] to my list of possible tie-in softwares. Thanks for that, you monster. /s Yes, at least for development, setting up the entire environment must be a one-command execution. Every new developer to a team will obviously need to progressively learn the entire stack, but they should be up and running after a single VCS checkout and installation command. I expect staging and production to be a perfect replica of the same environment developers use. As to how realistic it is to "launch the entire production cluster with a single command", with remote server provisioning, IP allocations, multiple hosts for various load-balanced pools, etc... I'll have to see when that time comes. [1] https://www.terraform.io/ https://www.terraform.io/
- Razengan 10y agoJapanese, any musical instrument, how to travel the world on a budget, and maybe some ways to earn money with what I already know.
- mars4rp 10y agoImage processing, I know a little bit of the theory, and I did my master thesis on image processing on FPGA with algorithms I developed. But I feel building a working program needs lots of experience not just theory.
- c_shu 10y agoC++17 (Sigh. I use many languages but learning c++ takes me more time than all the other languages combined.)
- joe563323 10y agoRealized only after learning other languages. On the bright side c++ sets the bar very high.
- deepnotderp 10y agoCategory theory. It's such an interesting idea.
- PudgePacket 10y agoI'm going through this series aimed at programmers by Bartosz Milewski, finding it pretty great so far. https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/ https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI7FMa2HsnawM_ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI...
- deepnotderp 10y agoThanks, but my lingua franca is math, not programming, i'm a pretty bad programmer actually :( Did you find anything from a "practical mathematician" type of view?
- PudgePacket 10y agoNot so far, though I'm only a third though. Also not a mathematician, I guess we're on opposite ends!
- radicality 10y agoCategory theory for the working mathematician [1] would probably be a good fit? [1] http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/papers/maclanecat.pdf http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/papers/maclanecat.pdf
- deepnotderp 10y agoAwesome,I'll check it out!
- jchmbrln 10y agoGIS. I've been using PostGIS a ton at work in the past year, and I've read _PostGIS In Action_[1], but I've really just scratched the surface. I want to play around with making my own projections. [1] https://www.manning.com/books/postgis-in-action-second-edition https://www.manning.com/books/postgis-in-action-second-editi...
- cossatot 10y agoDesktop GUI Gis programs like QGIS are pretty fun and there are tons of resources for learning the basics. You can download elevation raster data and highway vector data for the area around your city or somewhere more topographically interesting and start making maps or just some armchair exploring. Topography and hillshade data are gorgeous. And it's pretty easy to play around with projections, especially changing parameters on standard ones like Lambert.
- markovbling 10y agoCheck out d3.js - building a GIS app myself on top of d3 and it's really powerful and runs in the browser. Will have to do the GIS calcs server side and just use d3 to render but that plays really well with PostGIS...
- joe563323 10y agoAnother suggestion. Implement the R-tree.
- brudgers 10y agoI went through this last year. After two false starts with something toward the leading edge, I settled on Emacs, Linux, and JavaScript. All of which I already 'knew' enough to get my face slapped. Photography got added without a formal application. Raspberry Pi sort of worked it's way in under Linux in the second half of the year. Since I haven't 'learned' any of them, I'll probably keep them around in 2017. I'm also thinking about adding some 'classical' AI at the agent level of abstraction (not the lower DNN level). That probably means a bit of Common Lisp and an excuse for buying some used Norvig books. Like the formal topics from last year, this seems to be a domain that I bump into by trying to avoid it.
- GeneticGenesis 10y agoI want to have a deep understanding of Kubernetes... Oh, and Finnish.
- hota_mazi 10y agoI've learned too much stuff in 2016. My goal for 2017 is to learn fewer things and actually understand what I've learned better.
- echelon 10y agoWhat did you learn this year? :)
- dwaltrip 10y agoSounds like exposure vs actually learning something deeply. However, both activities are very valuable. Without looking at many things, how else can we know what is worth spending time to learn or do well? I currently feel that alternating between the two is good for a while. Perhaps later in life I will know enough to confidently work on one thing for many years :) I've also found the tree trunk of knowledge model to be very powerful (I believe I heard of it on waitbutwhy.com). The best learning and understanding comes when we build it up in a tree like fashion, where each leaf or branch is supported by a stronger, more fundamental conceptual branch. At the core is the trunk & roots, which are the deep, underlying principles supporting the entire tree of concepts/knowledge/ideas. Without a strong trunk to build off of, concepts and bits of knowledge float alone, ungrounded, and can wither or rot more easily.
- hota_mazi 10y agoYes. I sound a bit more negative than I really am. I think both kinds of learnings (deep and broad) are useful, you just need to make sure you adjust your brain and technique of actually assimilating things to the type of learning you are doing. I've learned quite a few languages/libraries/frameworks/methodologies this past year and while I don't feel like I'm an expert (or even reasonably well versed) in either of these, this broad exposure to vastly different things has stretched my brain in positive ways. I'd just like to switch that trend for next year.
- dwaltrip 10y agoNo worries, your post didn't come off as negative. I just took it as an opportunity to ramble for a bit. Hope your 2017 goes well!
- IgorPartola 10y agoDocker, rkt, LCX/LDX, and Kubernetes. I use some of this stuff already but want to see whether I can set up a Heroku-like multi host cluster that will be more stable for running production projects than my current setup of running things on "bare" EC2 instances. Swift and/or React Native. Mobile apps are good. How to use some basic ML in practice. TensorFlow based NNs would be good. How to use the ShopBot at my local hacker space. Also how to use the laser cutter to make cooler shit than I already do. How to sew. I want to make some one-off items but really don't know much about sewing beyond the real basics. How to use a bullwhip India Jones-style. Surfing. Bonus: welding, how to change brakes on a car, how to rebuild a carburetor, how to make kombucha, how to keep bees.
- peller 10y ago> How to sew. Ask grandma! My mom taught me, but it was an even more common skill with the older generations. Or I guess there's always YouTube. Does your maker space have a 4th axis for the laser? You can buy clear pint glasses and etch designs onto them. Combined with a custom etched coaster it makes an easy, inexpensive gift.
- IgorPartola 10y agoNo fourth axis but a new laser may be coming next year so that'd be nice. I'll ask the powers that be about this feature.
- ars 10y ago> how to change brakes on a car This is really easy. In fact it's the easiest non-trivial repair there is on a car, because unlike other parts it's actually designed do be replaced as a wear part. You'll need a jack, jack stands (pair), and a set of good socket wrenches (make sure you get 3/8 and 1/2 size - you'll need the larger sockets). A breaker bar and torque wrench are a nice bonus. You can get all of that at harbor freight for less than $100 (they do ship if you don't have one nearby). And considering the parts for a brake change cost around $100, but a shop charges closer to $600 it's a no-brainer financially. I learned by checking out a chiltons repair manual from my local library and following the instructions. That works very well, and you can supplement by watching some youtube videos (not an option when I first started). (I would not do just youtube - you never know if they are skipping a step.) Disk and drum brakes are all very similar within their type, so it hardly matters which model year chiltons book you get. Like you, I'd also like to learn how to weld :) but the cost of the machine is too high to justify. Edit: http://www.harborfreight.com/64-pc-14-in-38-in-12-in-drive-sae-metric-socket-set-67995.html http://www.harborfreight.com/64-pc-14-in-38-in-12-in-drive-s... http://www.harborfreight.com/12-in-drive-18-in-breaker-bar-67932.html http://www.harborfreight.com/12-in-drive-18-in-breaker-bar-6... http://www.harborfreight.com/1-2-half-inch-drive-click-type-torque-wrench-239.html http://www.harborfreight.com/1-2-half-inch-drive-click-type-... http://www.harborfreight.com/3-ton-steel-jack-stands-61196.html http://www.harborfreight.com/3-ton-steel-jack-stands-61196.h... http://www.harborfreight.com/4-ton-hydraulic-bottle-jack-66450.html http://www.harborfreight.com/4-ton-hydraulic-bottle-jack-664... Total: $95.95 (including coupons, the home page has the coupon codes)
- Sharma 10y agoI want to learn "How to focus effectively." This will in turn help me learn many other things in future.
- adolfoabegg 10y agoI want to learn about the best way to price my services.
- eiriklv 10y agoI'd like to go even more back to the fundamentals. Hopefully finishing SICP, building a JavaScript interpreter/compiler and other fun experiments to get a better understanding of the foundation that we're building everything on top of today.
- eiriklv 10y agoAlso - continue to learn more about why we do the things we do and how to leverage that for good things in business and life in general.
- yaantc 10y agoThen "Software Foundations" may be of interest: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/current/index.html https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/current/index.html It covers the foundation of functional languages with the simply typed lambda calculus, and also the principles of formal specifications and proofs. It's suitable for self learning, but is a significant effort so you need to have a strong interest in these topics and be ok with a very formal approach to software.
- Cerium 10y agoI'm going to learn how to run an ecommerce business. I'm a programmer at work, so I feel like I can use skills I know to learn ones I don't.
- sudshekhar 10y agoBe sure to a) Define your niche b) Point out the ways you will be different from others c) Know who your first customers will be and how will you approach them Before you start programming/other tech stuff. Simple advice but much easier to preach than practice. All the best!
- tylercubell 10y agoThis is also something I'd like to dabble in after getting some success with an affiliate site. I have an idea for a niche if you want to bounce some ideas back and forth. Email is in my profile.
- bbcbasic 10y agoCategory theory and some advanced Haskell I feel that such knowledge is eternal. It won't be obsolete in 2027. ReactJS on the other hand ...
- brudgers 10y agoThe architecture underpinning ReactJS offers some generally useful abstractions (that have appeared previously in other forms). The difficulties arise when the implementation of abstractions are viewed as a magical property of some programming languages rather than others. It doesn't matter whether it's 'object orientated' or 'functional' or 'one way data flow'.
- rrradical 10y agoYes. I wrote 5000 lines on this (and bringing that abstraction to Haskell). [1] 1: http://asivitz.com/posts/layers http://asivitz.com/posts/layers
- johnfn 10y agoCounterpoint: ReactJS solves a lot of engineers' problems in a clean and elegant way. Even if it goes away, the ideas behind it will continue to be good ones. There's nothing wrong with Haskell, but I think that a lot of people mythologize it because it's not used by many people and has an air of academia. A lot of people do the opposite to ReactJS because it's a popular framework that a lot of people use. It has no mythos. Of course, mythos is orthogonal to actually having practical, useful ideas.
- bbcbasic 10y agoSure I'm not against reactjs and that is just one example. It's a good framework to solve problems, but I doubt I'll get deeper insights from learning it.
- williamle8300 10y agoHave you tried using ReactJS?
- foota 10y agoI'd like to learn Japanese. I'm hoping to travel there in June after I graduate from college, and I figure it would help if I could talk to people (or try, at least). I'd also like to get better at Rust. I've written a few small projects in it at hackathons, but I've yet to get to the point where I'm comfortable writing in it. I'd like to get close to that. I'm taking a class prior to graduation in abstract algebra, which I'm excited for. I'm hoping to be able to continue to learn in this after graduating, I've thought about continuing to take math classes at a college by Seattle after I start working. I'm hoping to lean more about machine learning and how it can be applied to problems, a project that I'm hoping to do in advancement of this is to learn to predict cloud cover in some future interval based on the history of some things (maybe pressure and current cloud cover?)
- echelon 10y agoYou wouldn't happen to live in Atlanta, would you? (I know that's a long shot...) Outside of work I program in Rust almost exclusively, and would love to hack on something with others. I studied Japanese in high school, and I taught English in Hokkaido for a year, but I've since gotten rusty with my Japanese. I would love a study/accountability partner to pick it back up again.
- ENGNR 10y agoThe Yamasa school there is a great little find. The prices are very reasonable and they do everything they can to make it foreigner friendly, ie providing housing with thick walls, simple leases and things. Would recommend SILAC program which is mostly talking, even though I did the more formal class route, SILAC is probably more effective I think after learning more about how learning works
- glandium 10y agoYamasa was great when I was there 10+ years ago, but I don't know if that's still true after Declan went to create a school of his own.
- rokhayakebe 10y agoEspanol para mi.
- hatty 10y agoI want to get trained on all of the machines at techshop.ws. :)
- DeanWormer 10y agoSales. I have a computer science degree and learned software development isn't for me so I'm switching to sales this year. I'm looking forward to having both the technical skills and sales skills under my belt.
- apapli 10y agoI've been in sales 15 years now. Check out these resources and they will give you a GREAT foundation: Read the challenger sale: https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Sale-Control-Customer-Conversation/dp/1591844355/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482721774&sr=8-1&keywords=the+challenger+sale https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Sale-Control-Customer-Conv... and read SPIN selling: https://www.amazon.com/SPIN-Selling-Neil-Rackham/dp/0070511136 https://www.amazon.com/SPIN-Selling-Neil-Rackham/dp/00705111... Listen to the advanced selling podcast: https://advancedsellingpodcast.com/ https://advancedsellingpodcast.com/ Cheers
- DeanWormer 10y agoThanks for the tips! I read and enjoyed SPIN Selling. I love podcasts so I'll give that a listen.
- apapli 10y agoAny time. The podcast is an excellent way to really understand what the sales profession is about.
- echelon 10y agoI'm planning on studying deep learning techniques and relevant literature so I can apply it to the generation of better phonemes for my Donald Trump text to speech engine [1]. I've also got a huge interest in film and intend to teach myself filmmaking. I've had an interest in exploring it since middle school, but I've never committed the time. This year I'm obligating myself to film and edit something short every weekend. I live in Atlanta and our film scene is burgeoning, so I'm also hoping to network with local filmmakers and students. Anyone in the Atlanta area interested in either of these subjects? [1] http://jungle.horse http://jungle.horse
- SnowingXIV 10y agoShip a game. Better understanding of setting up a reliable backend. Grow current business and start ranking better for more organic traffic. Vim. And really work through being able to quickly whip up a project with one of the major JS framework. Also, using a VPS such as DO and make it secure.
- debt 10y agohow to do an ollie on a skateboard
- yeowMeng 10y agoWirst guards and a helmet are a worthwile investment.
- smnplk 10y ago+ learn the notes on the guitar neck + continue learning Clojure and build stuff with it + improve english speaking skills + read more, in english and native language + learn how to find clients outside of online freelance marketplaces + get away from ruby and rails + study more poker hands + learn to play chess better + learn about seo & marketing + bootstrapping a SASS product + make a few html5 games in clojurescript
- ThomPete 10y agoAs a fairly accomplished guitarist let be give you a piece of advice. If you want to learn the notes instead of learning them across the 6 strings, concentrate on learning them up and down the same string.
- smnplk 10y agoThanks for advice, I am using similar approach too. Because I also try to learn the positions too, so if you ask me what note is on sixth string/8th fret I have to know it's C and then if you ask me where are the other C notes, I need to know other string/fret pairs.
- St_Alfonzo 10y agoA mnemonic that helped me was learning relative notes in 'shapes' on the fretboard. The octave is 2 strings higher & 2 frets higher. The perfect fifth is 1 string higher & 2 frets higher. (Same shape as one of the movements of the knight/horse piece in chess :-) ) The minor third is same string & 3 frets higher OR 1 string higher & 2 frets lower. The major third is 1 string higher & 1 fret lower. On a normal tuned E-Bass this is valid for every string and every fret. On Guitar you have to add "1 fret higher" if your start point is on string 1-4 (E to G) and the target is on string 5-6 (B, e) because the interval between string 4 and 5 is different (major third instead of perfect fourth). Good Luck in 2017! My goal is also "continue learning Clojure and build stuff with it"
- alleycat 10y agoTo add to this, I'd probably learn the low E, then you can use octave patterns to find the notes on other strings easily. See here: https://www.justinguitar.com/en/IM-116-NotesOnNeck.php https://www.justinguitar.com/en/IM-116-NotesOnNeck.php
- oxplot 10y agoAfter watching La La Land, I finally settled on the instrument I'd dabbled with for years - piano. So I enrolled in a music theory course and I'm gonna learn to play the piano along with it.
- cvdub 10y agoCheck this out: https://www.lightnote.co/music-theory/waves/ https://www.lightnote.co/music-theory/waves/ Saw it posted by another HN user.
- baddox 10y agoI'm no great pianist, but I've got a pretty decent grasp of music theory. Let me know if you come up with any questions.
- oxplot 10y agoAwesome — appreciate it.
- soneca 10y agoTo code. Specifically more about CSS and JavaScript, maybe NodeJS, maybe React.
- _spoonman 10y agoI want to learn Latin and read one book a month (unrelated to learning Latin, I just have no time to read anymore).
- bootload 10y agoTo build a new language/compiler combination for a specific problem domain. Nothing fancy, just something that spits out geometric shapes using code rather than a GUI. Start small, web accessible and cheap.
- tuananh 10y ago- Elixir - Erlang
- weishigoname 10y agoI want to learning deep learning, but first I need to dig deeper about algorithm, hope it will go smoothly.
- 20161112 10y agoThe non-technical things which are needed to successfully bootstrap and sustain a profitable business.
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- analog31 10y ago* Make myself credible in some area of data science * Get more skilled at off-road cycling * Publish a non-embarrassing code side project * Expand my healthy cooking repertoire
- tmaly 10y agoI want to figure out how to get better at customer development. How to productively figure out what people really want or what is the real essence of their problems.
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- nocoder 10y agoLearn programming, I have dabbled a bit in Python and R mostly for data analytics but never achieved anything at the level of proficiency, I always get frustrated. I am from marketing but I get so many ideas about apps that I feel knowing to do my own thing would be great. Also run a sub 2 hour half marathon and start a blog about running.
- dewmal 10y agoIm planning to release apistudio version 1. It is a microservice platform for EE, apistudio.egreen.io
- bemmu 10y agoLearn the first 1006 kanji characters used in Japan (AKA kyoiku kanji).
- mynegation 10y ago1. Meditation and focus 2. enough physics to understand Erik Verlinde's paper. I know it might be too much, so I will start with one of the books explaining general relativity from the high school physics and math.
- skierscott 10y ago* Distributed optimization. How efficiently solve a large optimization problem with N cores? We would like to the time to complete the optimization to be N times faster. Hogwild[0] and Hogwild++[1] are (basic) algorithms for this. * Security. What's my threat model and how should I address it? [0]:http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~brecht/papers/hogwildTR.pdf http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~brecht/papers/hogwildTR.pdf [1]:http://www.stat.ucdavis.edu/~chohsieh/wildSGD.pdf http://www.stat.ucdavis.edu/~chohsieh/wildSGD.pdf
- randcraw 10y agoI want to understand the principles of a signals and signal processing, as they form info theory, and the theoretical underpinnings to learning. Then I want those insights to enrich my deep dive into machine learning, esp deep NNs, in particular to extract ineffable features from images and other complex signals, and finally, how to build a mind. And I want to learn French.
- danellis 10y agoVerilog. I'd like to design and implement a CPU.
- danellis 10y agoI'd also like to learn everything I need to know to keep a corporation running legally and smoothly without too much expense. Any suggestions?
- rokhayakebe 10y agoFinish everything I start. Even if no one uses it. Just finish.
- arunaugustine 10y agoAmen. I got better at finishing by starting really small. Like putting together a small puzzle (and finishing it), then moving onto a paint job for my library shelf (and finishing it), then moving onto building a roof top garden. In my experience, this skill of finishing does carry over into technology projects/work, even though the first attempted projects are distinctly non-tech or non programming oriented.
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- arunaugustine 10y agoAlso may I suggest you word your goal as "finishing most things I start, rather than finishing everything I start" as this setups you up better for success than an all or nothing approach.
- ram_rar 10y agoI want to get more comfortable with Rust and Python internals (CPython, GIL etc). I want to give a shot at getting rid of GIL in python using the concurrency concepts used in Rust.
- kakaorka 10y agoMandarin. Playing the piano. Some basic concepts about quantum mechanics as well to apply it to a few thoughts I have.
- arunoda 10y agoMaths.
- crispytx 10y agoAndroid
- wtvanhest 10y agoI'm finishing up the CFA (hopefully), and when I'm done I want to expirement with learning how to teach motivated learners better. I've come to the conclusion that most resources aren't that good for quick learning. It may simply be human (my) limitations, but I suspect that there are better, unexplored ways. I also think they may not be monotizable, but that is ok. I just want to finish the cfa in June and in my free time, learn all about teaching and learning.
- sah2ed 10y agoYou could reach more people with what you know by blogging. Have you considered doing this? I'm assuming you already work in a firm managing investments and will likely have little to no free time already.
- wtvanhest 10y agoYes, absolutely. I don't think the blogging format is really want I want to use, but I will be doing all of it in writing so that I can get advice, tweak, improve etc. I'm thinking about starting with a limited format, say no more than 300 words for explanations and a few images. I want to focus on teaching the absolute barebones basics of a concept so that someone could then go to wiki or other sources with a basic understanding. IDK. Something like that.
- redgetan 10y agoUser Acquisition. Preferably for B2C apps [1] and how to partner with influencers. I'm comfortable building web + mobile apps, but when it comes to distribution/marketing, I lack the experience. But it's something that I'm trying to actively learn through experimentation. [1] https://bard.co/ https://bard.co/
- shrikrishna 10y agoPersonality Devpt: Conversational confidence (I get anxious when I'm talking to strangers). I got better this year, but long ways to go yet. Career devpt: Sales Mob. Platform: Swift/ObjC. In 2016, it was Android Web Framework: React/Native. Last year, it was Angular Langs: Golang/Rust, Haskell/Erlang/Elixir Personal: Long form writing. I already write short stories at stories.shrikrishnaholla.in . Want to write something more ambitious
- williamle8300 10y agoI'd like to learn EcmaScript6. I'm pretty proficient at 5 but 6 has really evolved the language and made it a more functional language. It seems promising!
- emdowling 10y agoCareer: Transition from engineering to product management (starting mid-January so getting that one sorted early) Personal: Mastery in something non-computer related. I've spent my twenties building a career in software, have built a startup, etc but want to end my twenties and begin my thirties with something new to "master" (even though we can't ever fully master something). Increasingly fascinated by freediving and reconnecting with nature and what the human body is capable of.
- postsantum 10y agoSame here! A software dev getting into freediving. Also thinking about how to apply my skills to solve the hardest problem - finding buddies.
- sudshekhar 10y ago> Transition from engineering to product management Even I am considering such a move. Though for me it will be to Associate Product Management (if I do get through) from SDE. Any tips/advice you may have?
- sixdimensional 10y agoIf you can afford it, take courses from Pragmatic Marketing. Also remember that product management means a lot more than just software. I found it hard to break into pure product management without that coursework and more "business" experience. However, technical product management is a different story than "pure" product management, and for me, was a more logical transition from software engineering/dev.
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- mguillemot 10y agoIn 2017 I want to move my digital electronics skills from "patching together 30 years old ICs on a breadboard while playing with devkits" to "designing a simple board with modern components". I'm finally taking the plunge to SMD soldering, and the ultimate goal will be to make a fully functional JAMMA game board using a decent FPGA (a project I left incomplete 10 years ago, which has always bugged me).
- DanBC 10y agoI'd be interested to read a blog of your progress, especially if it includes mistakes you made and what you learnt from it.
- mguillemot 10y agoI'll keep that in mind! (I'm sure there will be many mistakes on the road ^^') In the meantime, my Twitter is in my profile, and I'm pretty sure I'll post a few snaps here and there :)
- vayarajesh 10y agoI have been reading alot about Machine Learning and I want to get into the practical application of it. So I will begin with learning Mathematics and then some Machine learning code for training a basic model for NLP or Facial Recognition :) Any suggestions on how to go about learning Mathematics requires for Machine Learning is more than welcome
- StClaire 10y agoAssuming you know the basics of calculus: learn lots of linear algebra, lots of probability theory, mathematical statistics, and optimization. But you don't have to wait to learn all the math to get going
- vayarajesh 10y agoI am just starting with Calculus. Currently I am only comfortable with linear algebra - rest all I am just starting to learn. Do you recommend any good books or resources?
- jimnotgym 10y agoI want to re-learn all the maths I have forgotten...
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoI've been using https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1137031204 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1137031204 to relearn some maths I'd forgotten. Pretty good so far.
- solipsism 10y agoHe wants to get into the practical application of machine learning, not machine learning theory. This is a common mistake people new to the field make. You can be very successful by learning how to use machine learning frameworks, and that doesn't require lots of probability theory, mathematical statistics, and optimization. Not that it hurts. vayarajesh, start using Tensorflow, you'll reach the ability to reason about problems to which machine learning can be applied, and how to apply it, much more quickly than starting by starting at the root of the tree of knowledge. You can always learn as much math as you want in order to dig as deeply as you want, but first get a sense of what you're dealing with.
- Windson 10y agoMy goal for 2017 is 1. Deploy my application I learned IOS develop in 2016 and building my own app, One is for unicooo which I already build a website. Another application call Cherry which is for finance. 2. Learn a new languages.Computer one and Real life one. I learned Swift and Japanese in 2016, Now I also wanna learn Rust/Go and Spanish in 2017. 3. Learn more math, when I start learning machine-learning, I know I have to learn more math to make myself better.
- spangry 10y agoI'd like to learn some basic physics, up to the stage of understanding electromagnetism and other magnetic phenomena. I've got a notion about how to design a more efficient coil-gun, but can't find any electromagnetic simulation software that I can use to test my idea. So my plan is to build a basic simulator from the ground up, learning in the process.
- fratlas 10y agoLearn top-to-bottom of how an OS works. Any recommendations?
- ma2rten 10y agoRead Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tanenbaum. He builds an Operating Systems from scratch in the book.
- ernestipark 10y agohttps://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-828-operating-system-engineering-fall-2012/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
- latenightcoding 10y agoxv6! https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6/book-rev8.pdf https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6/book-rev8.pdf https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public
- rukittenme 10y agoElectronics. I'd like to make my software more physical.
- nether 10y agoNumerical weather prediction. After I finish up my data science bootcamp, I'll be dusting off the old undergrad aero textbooks.
- jonaf 10y ago1. Rust. As a DevOps engineer with a lot of experience and interest developing and operating distributed databases, I have so many ideas and Rust is perfect for them. 2. Everything about building and using FPGAs to their potential. 3. machine learning / deep neural networks. I feel we are getting to a point where they are becoming more practical for a business to invest in. 4. How to survive parenthood, with #3 due in May, my son is 3 and my daughter is 2. I've been making it up as I go, but wow is it a lot of work!
- flukus 10y agoI'm going with rust as well as a follow on from currently getting myself reacquainted with lower level programing (c), building desktop apps and flex/bison. I "knew" c++ >10 years bet went to more productive environments to build apps. What I'm discovering now is that this productive is more from experience than from using higher level languages.
- praveer13 10y agoI want to learn machine learning and also complex systems deeply and build some projects around them.
- blueintegral 10y agoConversational Navajo. It's such an interesting language with an amazing history. I don't know any other languages right now besides English and a bit of Spanish, and I didn't grow up around any Navajo people. Despite a relatively small speaking population, there seems to be enough information online to learn at least enough to hold simple conversations.
- anderspitman 10y agoI used to spend time learning languages as a hobby and have a hardcover copy of a book called "The Navajo Verb". I'd be happy to loan it to you.
- vivekd 10y ago1. Marketing 2. Django (mastery instead of just the basics) 3. A solution to Parkinson's law
- lowglow 10y agoHow to construct a model of AGI. :)
- framebit 10y agoFor work, Spark, Spark, more Spark. Also Spark. I already know how to use it, but I want to know how it works in detail from the ground up. For not work, I want to improve my oil painting and my drawing skills! I got a Pi this year and want to use it to dabble in digital sculpture.
- shardo 10y agoI want to learn how to create an AI to solve tasks in OpenAI's Universe.
- juliend2 10y agoI want to learn to kick myself to get out of my comfort zone.
- vcool07 10y agoMy goal is to learn enough tech to build an end to end web based application. Planning to learn python, then html/css, MySQL and move onto learning deployment with AWS.... let's see how it goes !
- giancarlostoro 10y agoThere's many options for Python but check out CherryPy. If you can write a class, and a few methods that return text (or HTML) you can write a full blown website with CherryPy. It maps methods to URLs. http://cherrypy.org/ http://cherrypy.org/ Just look at HelloWorld. As for templating, I personally use Mako: http://www.makotemplates.org/ http://www.makotemplates.org/ Mako is used by Reddit. A few months back I was hired to code a back-end API and I chose Python and CherryPy for the stack, never done as much web dev as I have since. Got a fully working app. Can't recommend much for MySQL, except either SQLAlchemy or PonyORM. You can make a simple website / web service in CherryPy, and yes RESTful services can be made as well. I say start with basics. Even if you don't use CherryPy in the end, you can start testing it right away with the hello world example. Just don't forget to pip install cherrypy
- vcool07 10y agoThank you, will check them out !
- wallflower 10y agoIf you do this, I recommend the thin slice all the way through to deployment. Get Hello World running locally and then deploy it. Get Hello World with some CSS styling running locally and then deploy it. Get Hello World with database augmentation running locally and then deploy it. What you will probably learn is that the way you deploy it is as much a part of the building process as the building itself...
- jkchu 10y agoWith platforms like Heroku and Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk, I feel that deploying side projects is actually quite simple. Of course there will likely be some troubleshooting the first few times, but once you get your app running, deploying becomes trivial.
- czep 10y agoIn 2017 I want to learn what levers I can move to make my company more successful. If it's email marketing, then I'm going to learn everything there is to know about email marketing. If it's a neural net or averaged perceptron classifier, then I'll learn everything about neural nets and averaged perceptron classifiers. And I also want to learn how to play the Stone Roses' I Am the Resurrection on guitar. Happy New year, hackers!
- omginternets 10y agoI'd really like to pick up a functional language, but I'm faced with the paradox of choice. I'm presently torn between: 1. Haskell: all the cool kids are doing it, and I like its formalism 2. Hy: I write a lot of python, and really like the idea of working with familiar data structures.
- baddox 10y agoIf you're interested in web development (and perhaps even if you're presently not), you may want to take a look at Elm. It's a functional language that compiles to JavaScript and is almost entirely developed for the purpose of building web components and applications. The way the functional features and other language features are explained as directly benefiting the developer experience is pretty cool. https://www.gitbook.com/book/evancz/an-introduction-to-elm/details https://www.gitbook.com/book/evancz/an-introduction-to-elm/d...
- omginternets 10y agoGreat, now I'm torn between three languages ;) (In all seriousness: thanks!)
- eranation 10y agoHow to spend more time with my family, friends, work out, learn how to cook and less spend time plying with a new framework without a real business idea behind it.
- apineda 10y agoThis is me in a nutshell, that and get some early traction via hard labor on the marketing channels BEFORE code.
- sravan_ess 10y agoAmen! Plus I want to finish all the books I bought this year. About programming/work - I want to learn a little bit of Haskell and want to change my company, I also should make sure the code I write from now on should be Test Driven to some extend
- botverse 10y ago> learn how to cook The key is to learn to eat.
- AbenezerMamo 10y agoI love this.
- thaumaturgy 10y agoHow to be happy. That is actually my goal for 2017.
- vjdhama 10y agoIn tech, dig deeper into * open containers * rkt * docker * kubernetes * terraform
- thewhitetulip 10y ago- I am going to start a Youtube channel for high quality tutorials which will be practical. - Build a full end to end app using Vue and stuff - Build my Startup - Learn investing - Learn German
- fgandiya 10y ago> I am going to start a Youtube channel for high quality tutorials which will be practical. I'm kinda gonna do that too. Wanna race to 100 subs?
- thewhitetulip 10y agoSure.
- sidchilling 10y agoI want to learn to market something and make some money from one of my products. I have been develioping web and mobile apps for about 6 years and now I want to create something for passive income.
- fgandiya 10y ago1) SQL 2) Working with VPSs and other IaaS/PaaS services. 3) App Development 4) More about Python 5) Design 6) Historical figures in CS 7) How to adult 8) How to navigate the job market 9) How to grow a blog
- mdh_1991 10y ago呵呵
- KurtMueller 10y agoF# Specifically, I want to learn how to: 1. Build and deploy an F# web app with Suave as the web framework and Fable on the frontend. I'm not quite sure what to use as a backend (I know and use Postgres, but am open to using something else). 2. Test my code using FsCheck (based off of Haskell's QuickCheck) by defining properties/attributes. 3. Use computation expressions 4. Use and build type providers I'm a professional Ruby on Rails developer by day, so I'm interested in F# because it's so very different than what I'm used to. Plus, it has a lot of shiny tools/toys that I want to play around with and learn.
- deepaksurti 10y agoGoing back to the basics to solidify my foundation, one each quarter. Good Practice makes one a better engineer! Digital Electronics using [1] Operating Systems using [2] Functional Data Structures using [3] Graphics Algorithms [4] Any recommendations for these subjects sincerely appreciated. Thanks. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-Computer-Architecture-Second/dp/0123944244 https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-Computer-Architecture-... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Operating-Systems-Andrew-Tanenbaum/dp/013359162X https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Operating-Systems-Andrew-Tanen... [3] https://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Okasaki/dp/0521663504 https://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Ok... [4] https://www.amazon.com/Graphics-Visualization-Principles-Algorithms-Theoharis/dp/1568812744 https://www.amazon.com/Graphics-Visualization-Principles-Alg... The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
- signa11 10y ago> Digital Electronics using [1] Operating Systems using ... also, in case you are not aware of it, there is always the nand2tetris [http://www.nand2tetris.org/ http://www.nand2tetris.org/] thingy (currently running on coursera btw). the book is also pretty good imho.
- deepaksurti 10y agothanks signa11 for the nand2tetris reminder. I have worked through that book and it is really awesome. Worth the time and effort for anyone inclined. I had posted my review on Amazon as well. [1] I think I should enroll for the Coursera thingy and have at least 1 certificate in my kitty ;-) [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RZ4ME4QH22JML/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0262640686 https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RZ4ME4QH22JML/ref...
- signa11 10y ago> I have worked through that book and it is really awesome. Worth the time and effort for anyone inclined. very cool :) in case you want something more, i have _very_ fond memories of zvi-kohavi's book (switching and finite automata theory) as well. you might find useful/instructive.
- SmooL 10y agoI'd like to finally, officially, explore functional programming. I see a lot about it, and I get the general gist, but I want to actually dive into a language and feel first-hand all the differences.
- awgme 10y agoCompletely not tech related, but I want to learn making hand pulled noodles because they're so tasty.
- palerdot 10y agoI upvoted you because this is the first non programming comment I came across in this content. The question was generic, but incidentally almost all replies are related to programming.
- gravypod 10y agoIf this question was posted on a forum for gardeners, most of whom are gardening fanatics, you'd find many of the plans involve gardening.
- contingencies 10y agoIf you want to come visit China and learn here, get in touch. Incidentally we are working on a noodle-related startup!
- du_bing 10y agoI want to learn Front-end and Back-end developing furture in 2017, I want to become a professional web developer, competent to do things like server, database, javascript, UI, http protocals, safety and profiling. I have built some basics of Linux, Python, Ruby, HTML/CSS/JavaScript and tools like Vim/Emacs in the second half of 2016. I decide to do program development on my 27th birthday. My major in the University is English Literature. More in details, in 2017, I plan to learn Elixir, MySQL/PHP, Sqlite, Ruby on Rails, Django/Flask, Node.js, Gulp, advanced Javascript, Material Design, Semantic UI, Docker, Travis CI, Jupyter, Lisp, Haskell, basic Machine Learning and pick up math like calculus, probability theory, linear algebra which I've learned in the University. I desire to become a remote developer who can earn at least $30000/year after 2017. That's my target now. But in the long run, I want to be an expert in ML and AI.
- stedman 10y agoIMO you should aim more for depth than breadth. I reckon it's a better strategy to pick a single server side language/framework and become a master w/ that (you have 4 listed above).
- du_bing 10y agoYes, very good advice, but according to my observation, RoR, Django, Flask, Elixir are all good tools, and PHP is still popular. Because I want to do remote work, so I want to learn as much as I can, so I can catch up more works. That's my thoughts at present.
- arcticfox 10y agoVery cool, but I'd suggest narrowing your list of technologies down substantially: I'd suggest learning one database well, one backend language well, and one frontend framework well. Then you can spend some time using what you know to evaluate which other of the other options you want to learn. Otherwise, you're going to spend most of your time tripping over syntax, which really isn't useful learning unless you plan to be actually using a syntax extensively, IMO.
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- patzol 10y agoReact Native - want to add those to my dev stills toolbox along Swift/Obj-C Networking - to find more freelancing opportunities Video Making - to better market my apps Bahasa Indonesia - to better communicate with locals when in indonesia/malysia
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- adrice727 10y agoScala. I did the two functional programming in Scala courses on Coursera. I'm currently going through Martin Odersky's book and am in the middle of my first small project. I'm just starting to turn the corner on feeling productive and actually understanding what the hell I'm doing. If I am half as productive in Scala as I am in my main language (JS) by the end of the year, I'll be quite happy.
- jakeway 10y agoIf you picked up Scala, I'm going to assume you're interested in functional programming. In which case you should check out the book Functional Programming in Scala. Describes a bit more advanced functional programming ideas using Scala
- johndoenut 10y ago- Learn some math (starting with Calculus by M. Spivak) - Read more books - Basics of music theory
- hrshtr 10y agoget into data science/engg reduce body fat and be big by 10%
- LeicaLatte 10y agoI want to move out of the cloud. My apps should run on my own server hardware. I feel this is more important than anything else right now. Even growth.
- ne01 10y agoI'm just wondering, why is it more important than growth?
- LeicaLatte 10y agoMany good reasons. Here are two. 1. Cloud companies' best interests are not aligned with mine on issues of ethics, snooping. 2. Control.
- giis 10y agoStarting with Astronomy. I like idea of stargazing & fascinated by reading about stars like KIC 8462852. On programming front, Rust is looking good.
- misrab 10y agoThis thread is awesome, so much enthusiasm and curiosity. I'd like to learn/do a couple things in 2017: - An overview of college-level conceptual physics. Historically I've tried to leap-frog into advanced physics because my math is pretty good, but I end up missing out on the concepts. So I'll stop rushing and do it step by step. - Deep learning and deeper machine learning. I'm pretty familiar with ML in general but have never had the intimate understanding I've wanted, nor taken the time to properly dive into DL. - Bahasa Indonesia and Mandarin ^_^ (while maintaining the rest) - Abstract Algebra and Information Theory - Keep up the pace with reading interesting books - Become more familiar with devops and systems programming (Docker, Rust etc...but not an expert necessarily) As an aside, I'm also trying to improve my running, swimming, and martial arts :) I'm sure other things will also pop up in time!
- noobcode 10y agoI want to be able to get independent and start my own business. I love to write, which I have started slowly over the period of time. All the best to everyone for their learning goals.
- abhimskywalker 10y agoTop priority: How to be Happy. And also some Kubernetes, Docker in more detail, explore rkt and CoreOS, perhaps also get into details of linux kernel and finish a custom build from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Get more depth into system security If time permits, would love to learn more about Quantum Computing and explore if I can contribute in any way.
- zxcvb 10y agoHow to be happy... Resonates with me a lot.
- antrion 10y agoI don't know what your knowledge of quantum computing is, but I'm a complete beginner and I found this article [0] a very good read to begin with. [0]: http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post2644_grovers-quantum-search-algorithm http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post2644_grovers-quantum-s...
- muminoff 10y ago1. Learn Rust 2. Read books 3. Family and work balance
- kisop 10y agoI have plans to relearn undergraduate mathematics (upto Functional and Complex Analysis) and learn the basics of computer science (just Algorithms, Data-Structures and Discrete math) in the first half of 2017. Being able to do this successfully would mean a lot to me. Finnish and Hindi are the two languages I wish to learn in the next year.
- joe563323 10y agoHindi?? why?
- d1ffuz0r 10y ago* become an expert in PostgreSQL * improve my knowledge of Erlang * catch up with ES6 (not really useful, but, just in case) * learn how to scale my side projects from 5-10 initial users to 100-500 (some seo, marketing, sales) * how to be efficient with my time
- mrkgnao 10y agoMath-wise, well, it's a matter of where I go to college, I figure it'll have a huge effect on basically everything that happens thereafter. I definitely want to continue on my path towards understanding the Weil conjectures and that kind of thing, so I plan to be able to compute sheaf cohomology for schemes by the end of the year and learn more algebraic number theory. (And maybe look at representation theory.) CS-wise: learn enough ClojureScript to be able to make convincing mathematical (etc.) visualizations -- I recently got a taste of Figwheel+Reagent and I'm hooked! -- and be able to manipulate Haskell transformer stacks better. Other than that, I'd like to learn some French (marathoning Engrenages was the best decision ever!) and not forget the little German I know.
- jensvdh 10y agoAlgorithms and datastructures :) I Want to interview better.
- mzzter 10y ago- A different hello world every 3 days - Write better - Think outside of the box - Embrace exposure - Docker - How to make a VR app - Understand inverse kinematics - C - Crystal - API Gateway microservice - Concurrency patterns - Understand FPGAs, and an HDL - Applied machine learning
- dopeboy 10y agoTypeScript. Having made the systems engineer -> web developer transition, ES6 has made the ride smooth but I want to take it all the way.
- shradha408 10y agoHere are the things I want to learn in 2017: 1) I want to learn Java and be an expert in it by the end of 2017. Also, some of the basic concepts of computer science. 2) I am going to start a new food website where I am going to create and share new recipes. I really want to learn so many new recipes and improve my cooking skills. 3)I am going to buy a Ukulele next week and I want to learn it so badly. This is going to my first musical instrument and I am so excited.
- JoachimS 10y agoNot wanting to seem negative. But becoming expert in Java in one year sounds nigh impossible. Depending on what constitutes expert, of course. And the amount of CS education and experience you have before. But don't let this stop your for trying to become really good at Java. Or any other skill, language.
- afarrell 10y ago> I really want to learn so many new recipes and improve my cooking skills. Consider watching Alton Brown videos on youtube. I find he does a good job at explaining cooking at a lower layer of abstraction. Also, a big part of cooking is keeping your kitchen organized, so think of the physical layout of your cooking space as a UX/information architecture problem. If you have a disorganized kitchen and are trying to just follow a recipe, then you will feel overwhelmed as you aren't able to hold things in working memory. Also, for recipes, check out https://paprikaapp.com/ https://paprikaapp.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/slowcooking/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slowcooking/.
- shradha408 10y agoI agree! Thanks for the links.
- gmayank32 10y agoMy goal for 2017 is to make career in Data Science field. I want to learn by doing good projects in this field but I dont have any ideas. Apart from Kaggle, is there any other sites which have projects related to Data Science field.
- jbrambleDC 10y agodriven data
- gmayank32 10y agoMy goal for 2017 is to make career in Data Science field. I want to learn by doing good projects in this field but I dont have any ideas. Apart from Kaggle, is there any other sites which have projects related to Data Science field.
- borcunozkablan 10y agoI wanna develop the small desktop games via Godot for Linux and HTML5 in new year. I started to learn it and go on. And i participated goodreads challenge to read 5 books in new year. The most will be related to programming and operating system. I want to learn go programming, and read all chapters of Tanenbaum books about operating system and distributed systems.
- ak93 10y agoI want to learn Generative art! I really enjoy the intersection of programming and art. I have previously worked on couple of designs using python and it was amazing. I want to continue that again this year(once I have a full time job). I really think I can work some design that might sell too!
- znpy 10y agoI would like to learn enough Racket to start coding some real-world applications. I am finding the Racket documentation a bit problematic: it's either "learn this super-specific things with no prior introduction" (example: the "continue" guide) or "learn everything from the very ground up" (example: the racket guide or how to design programs). Any suggestions would be appreciated.
- jbrambleDC 10y ago1. Deep Learning 2. Bitcoin/Blockchain
- d7z 10y agoConfidence - never thought it would be an issue when you're leading your own company. I quit a great job on the east coast in 2012, went to grad school and moved to Silicon Valley after graduation (2014) to work on my startup. I've been learning and building constantly for the past 4 years. I would rather my work speak for me, so I don't draw any attention to what I'm doing or to myself until I have great results to report. I don't have a co-founder because the people I would ask are not financially independent enough to take the risk without a salary. I'd rather make some money and hire them with as much equity as they can handle. My first project stalled because of poor architectural decisions that overlapped with not-yet-profitable product-market fit (and too much networking instead of product work) and a baby. I learned that lesson and turned into a hermit to rewrite it completely - the market is there, but not immediately lucrative. I'm also writing something that makes money first. I'm hammering day and night with nothing else in my life but my family and the product. My second project is written in GO, wonderfully cheap to run, and about to be ready for launch. Not sure how to turn on that swagger button yet. Selling to customers is one thing, but how/when do I start selling to investors and employees when few people know me in SV because I've been hammering instead of networking for almost 2 years straight.
- alexchamberlain 10y agoSo, what's the link?
- juiyout 10y agoI was in the mindset of letting my work speak for me. Then I quickly learned why technologically-inferior products can often get more sales than other superior products in my field(b2b). Without accurate product presentation or inspiring sales effort, I can watch companies with clueless devs outbid my product with their all-powerful sales people.
- cpayne 10y agoLol - welcome to the club! (the confidence) find yourself a good business coach. You may burn through a few but that's all part of it. I can relate to your comments, I was there about 18 months ago. You would be surprised just how many people talk about confidence (or lack thereof). Also, look for a good mentoring group. Find people that are on the same path (family / business / financial). If I can help, my email is in my profile.
- ranveeraggarwal 10y ago* Android. Built a really tiny but useful app after reading up tutorials from a gazillion places in a couple of weeks. I still don't have a very good hang of the architecture or the most optimal way to do things. Any recommendations on this this front would be very helpful. * Computer Graphics. This is one area of computer science I am really interested in and wrote my undergraduate dissertation in. I want to go back to the basics and get up to speed with the new trends in the field. Again, need recommendations on how to proceed with this. * Become a Python Ninja. Python is one language I am really comfortable with and whenever I can't get anything done, I go back to Python. There are still several facets of this language I need to explore. And lastly, I need to quit my current job and work on something that lies somewhere in those^^ areas.
- arvind_devaraj 10y agoI gave a talk on Android and Graphics at Google, which you may find interesting. I am also learning python and machine learning http://coursehunt.net/info/graphics-programming/ http://coursehunt.net/info/graphics-programming/ http://coursehunt.net/info/android-programming/ http://coursehunt.net/info/android-programming/
- ranveeraggarwal 10y agoYour slides have a good overview and can be very useful for 101-102 sessions :) But this isn't what I'm looking for. I have a bird's eye view, I can build apps, I can make games. But that doesn't make me a good Android Developer or an expert in computer graphics. I need recommendations for texts/courses in these fields.
- palerdot 10y agoI want to learn to create a business however small from my own piece of software. This includes creating an useful software for people along with marketing and selling.So far I have struggled just to get eyeballs to my works. It has been a revelation to me on how difficult it is to market and eventually sell software.
- FLGMwt 10y agoI haven't enacted it, bit some solid advice I've seen is to put up canary sites for your ideas. Spend some time on a good marketing page (which you'll have to do anyway) and have an newsletter sign up where a download link would be. You can get a feel for how many people are interested, and having a known audience can keep you motivated to keep working.
- andrei_says_ 10y agoStorytelling via filmmaking.
- arvind_devaraj 10y agoI am compiling list of free online courses in technology at http://coursehunt.net/info/ http://coursehunt.net/info/ You can search the collection by keywords. For example http://coursehunt.net/?query=android http://coursehunt.net/?query=android
- tehwalrus 10y agoWrite a novel, and learn a language. I started writing a sword and sourcery novel on my rail commute, and its been much more fun than listening to fantasy audiobooks (which are very hit and miss in quality). I've previously learned some French, German and Mandarin Chinese. I'd like to reach the threshold where I manage conversation in one of them by the end of the year. My Mandarin learning is most recent, my German was the most in-depth, and there's a French programmer working next to me. I dont know which one to do yet!
- nikolaplejic 10y agoI'd recommend going with the language you're most likely to use extensively - since you're sitting next to a person speaking French, I'd say that might be a good option. It's too easy to underestimate the importance of conversational practice while learning a language.
- iamgopal 10y agoGood Habits. This dopamine addiction went on for too far long. Ruined my first two startups, lucky to have another to help me financially. Running, Avoiding Social Internet, NoFap and more time to family.
- afarrell 10y agoInstall https://selfcontrolapp.com/ https://selfcontrolapp.com/, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momentum/laookkfknpbbblfpciffpaejjkokdgca?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momentum/laookkfkn..., and https://freedom.to/ https://freedom.to/
- tluyben2 10y agoI had the same feeling after I received the Oculus years ago from the Kickstarter campaign, but now with the PS VR I am sure of it; VR is here and I need to do something with it. I want to make at least one VR application and because my 3D chops are from the late 80s, meaning pixel based vector graphics, I have some catching up to do.
- HissingSound 10y agoI want to: 1. Improve my English skills 2. learn more about basics CS knowledges like algorithms, data structures. 3. Figure out what is Machine Learning. Maybe learn some Discrete and Linear Algebra for better understanding, but first I'll write some code using frameworks.
- zabi_rauf 10y agoI recently started to brush up on my Linear Algebra and found this very useful https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFitgF8hE_ab https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVF...
- JoKer_handsome 10y agointeresting things hidden deep inside a glance https://goo.gl/sr4E3u https://goo.gl/sr4E3u
- JoKer_handsome 10y agointeresting things hidden deep inside a glance https://goo.gl/sr4E3u https://goo.gl/sr4E3u
- donquichotte 10y agoI want to run one of the less "Ultra" trails of the UTMB (Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc) and compete in an amateur motorcycle rally (Hellas Rally).
- jakobegger 10y agoI want to build an RC car that can autonomously navigate between waypoints.
- atarian 10y agoAnger management. I don't understand how most people can get through a week without killing each other.
- contingencies 10y agoSeriously give meditation a try. Also try to knock off stimulants and depressants, high-GI foods/drinks, and up your exercise frequency.
- joe563323 10y agoMe too. No idea how to deal with this.
- sudshekhar 10y agoI want to improve my networking skills and land a remote job. Being in India, I can do a lot of work for much cheaper rates than others out there. But I don't want to waste my time with short term projects. Might seem like you're earning a lot but there's very little one actually learns at the end of a few months, which to me at least is a net loss. So I am going to try to find some kind of long term project/task as a junior/senior engineer, something that's challenging or at least worth putting on your CV. I am also planning to work on my thinking skills (lesswrong/SSC and Economist), and React. Not going to add anything else. Discipline is the word for this year.
- theweirdone 10y agoI want to be more socially active in 2017. I graduated in 2013 , got a dev job and since then been living in a virtual world w/o any interaction whatsoever with people outside of professional environment. In 2017, I want to break this trance, get to know the real world and probably get a girlfriend. :)
- derrzzaa 10y agoTinder helps.
- Etheryte 10y agoGetting into some sort of sports is great for this, with obvious other benefits.
- kamekame 10y agoI spend thousands of hours learning Japanese. If you not live in Japan, it is a totally waste of time. My wife is from Japan, why I learned the language. But because of still living in Germany, I regret learning it. I could learn so many other things.
- wallflower 10y agoGood luck! One of the better ways to do this is to to take the lead. Be a leader, not a follower. That can be interpreted multiple ways: organizing events, inviting people to things, asking what you would like, not what you "want", even taking dance lessons (something like Salsa), not caring about the outcome so much... Some wisdom from a book from the Ask HN Books thread [1] > - choose carefully what you give a f*ck about, but when you do, do it right > - there will always be problems, deal with them and move on, it's your own responsibility. > - the constant pursuit of a positive experience is in itself a negative experience, acceptance of a negative experience is a positive experience Also, Systems Not Goals http://jamesclear.com/goals-systems http://jamesclear.com/goals-systems [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13243705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13243705
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- severus 10y agoI want to improve my maths so that I can open up the amount of books and articles I can read and understand.
- vladimirfomene 10y agoI want to learn functional programming and machine learning.
- markovbling 10y agoYou should start with "Introduction to Statistical Learning" which is the baby brother of "Elements of Statistics Learning" (arguably THE reference book) - it's easy to follow and has examples in R, a functional language. Plus, it's free! http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
- bencoder 10y agoJust bought myself a piano, so I want to learn to play - to a beginner level - I'm aware that probably even after 5 years one is still essentially a "beginner", so it's a long road.
- xpil 10y agoGreat idea. It took me some 2 years to realize that piano wasn't my favourite way of making noise; on the other hand though it gave me a solid base on the theory of music (intervals, notation, cleffs etc) so that picking another instrument became much, much easier.
- wallflower 10y agoTake a look at http://www.lightnote.co/ http://www.lightnote.co/ (previously mentioned on HN)
- minhajuddin 10y agoI want to build a product which can let me leave my full time job and support me financially. I have built a lot of products over the past (http://www.websrvr.in/ http://www.websrvr.in/ , https://zammu.in/ https://zammu.in/ , https://getsimpleform.com/ https://getsimpleform.com/) but none of them have allowed me to work on them full time. I should probably spend more time in marketing/selling the products.
- hellofunk 10y agoPython. Not sure where to start. Python 2? 3?
- gaius 10y agohttps://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3
- gmemstr 10y agoMy project for 2017 is to build and learn how to manage network infrastructure. I wrote up a blog post but the TL;DR is learn how to network hardware together with switches, managing storage servers, dedicated servers, etc.
- wingerlang 10y agoSpeaking thai because I live there.
- JensRantil 10y agoAndroid programming, Terraform, Docker and putting containers in production using Kubernetes. I also want to improve my mentoring skills as I've realized I've become a fairly senior developer nowadays.
- peteretep 10y agoA bit meta, and will probably get lost, but I would strongly encourage anyone answering this question to also include: "and this is how I plan to do it" Firstly, because if you don't have some kind of plan, there's no hope, so try and work out what that is now; second, you'll give people who already know that skill a way to advise you.
- rcdmd 10y agoapropos-- "and this is now I plan to use it"
- SunboX 10y agoHow to repair more stuff.
- markatkinson 10y agoI want to learn C++, specifically for the Ue4 engine. I have spent a few years using blueprints and prototyping games for mobile, PC and VR and it looks like I might be able to actually get into the VR thing full time next year. I imagine I will need to have a good grasp of C++ to really commit full time. Planning to use the Unreal tutorials and then a few YouTube tutorials I found and I'll check out Pluralsight, and then just start building stuff! I'm coming from a C# base so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sorry no links, on mobile and don't have access to my bookmarks.
- HanGaozu 10y agoHow to do nothing! I want to learn how to chill out and take it easy in stead of cramming every single minute of my day with something or the other.
- staz 10y agoI suffer from the same problem, I started meditation this year and that's what helped me the most to combat this. Hope This Helps.
- kriro 10y agoCooking, Elixir/Phoenix, refreshing my French Probably in that order.
- aspiringme 10y agoI want to learn Machine Learning from scratch. Please let me know all prerequisites for the same. Please help me learn.
- jimnotgym 10y agoMaths.... Seriously how good is your calculus and statistics? Joel Grus book 'Data science from scratch' might be a start.
- snovv_crash 10y agoThe basics of what's required to become a quant for trading algorithm research. I already do a lot of linear algebra and calculus in my day job, and I love the challenge. I also have some experience with competitive predictive analysis during game AI competitions, which I turned out to have a knack for. I see Ito and related fields as the next level, and the money doesn't hurt either.
- anonyfox 10y agoDiving deeper into Rust. It strikes me how this language is exactly what I want in the future. From building Webapps/services (good libs/frameworks will arise) to codify algorithms as efficient as possible, and so on. I have some libraries that I tend to rewrite for every new language I learn, but once I wrote something in Rust, its written once and for all, highly efficient and considerably safe, and I can use it from all other languages (node, elixir, ruby, ...). And I have high hopes for webassembly to replace the brittle and overcomplicated frontend stuff in the next years, Rust should be the ideal candidate to write enterprisey stuff which must not fail.
- activatedgeek 10y ago1. Raise my algorithms bar. This will definitely boost problem solving skills in general. I'll do this mostly via Competitive Programming. 2. Get one open-source project shipped.
- kchauhan 10y agoI will going to learn how to make themes for GNU/Linux GTK.
- k__ 10y agohow to go from my freelancing dev. business to a product business. Don't know where to start.
- Keyframe 10y agoMachine learning. It's still a mystery to me!
- lloeki 10y agoWhat: learn not to be so much caught up in thoughts about whatever happens or will happen - which in turn generates terrible anxiety and self-fulfilling prophecies - and to enjoy the present moment. How: socialize, be more outgoing about who I am, get back into sports and reach back to friends I've been letting down, build new relationships, trust people again. Just keep on building, doing and enjoying things for what they are, not what they might fail to be.
- RossBencina 10y agoOne of my current goals is to learn Idris by working through the Idris MEAP book[0]. I have set up a cheap ultrabook running Linux for this purpose, and intend to disappear to a library or cafe semi-regularly for Idris time. If I make it far enough, I intend to implement some P2P network protocols (e.g. STUN, Zeroconf, BitTorrent Kademlia overlay). [0] https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-idris https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-i...
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- milanove 10y agoPersonal goal is to transition from basic C++ to either NVidia's CUDA framework, or move towards iOS/Android app programming.
- satyajeet23 10y agoNothingness
- jaybosamiya 10y agoMy goal for 2017 is to get a _lot_ better at the fields of reverse engineering and vulnerability discovery (as well as showing PoC). The plan of action: keep at it by attacking more wargames and CTF (capture the flag) contests. Also, I should probably try to consider bug bounties, to be able to orient the skills to real world problems as well.
- giosch 10y agoSame. Pwn the world!
- davedx 10y agoElixir, and probably Phoenix. We have a large IO bound orchestration layer written in Scala that's been struggling with our traffic lately, and it's been a lot of work to optimise performance. Curious to see if Elixir can help us, and how.
- adrice727 10y agoI'm curious as well. What advantage do you think Elixir might provide over Scala?
- davedx 10y agoWith Scala you have to be very careful to explicitly avoid blocking operations. You also have to micromanage execution contexts across the various components (or services) of your app. I also like the sound of the resilience provided by the Erlang OTP and the "crash early" strategy. What I don't like is the prospect of losing static typing. Nor do my co-workers. We need to spend some time doing R&D.
- davidspiess 10y agoI'm about moving out, bought my own flat. Looking forward to be independent. Learn cooking, cleaning and grow some healthy vegetables on my balcony. On the other side i finished a climbing course recently, now i want to practice that further, so i can climb one of the three peaks of Lavaredo. As a programmer i want to take a step back, spending less time in front of the computer and socialize more, though it costs me a lot of energy.
- DrNuke 10y agoNothing novel here, just going to strengthen my tech skills. Spent too much time chasing business in 2016 and need a refresh.
- damptowel 10y ago* Grow a beard * Exploring vegetarian recipes * Get to a 100 push ups * Learn Racket * Learn to weld and make some furniture * Sit less
- deepakhj 10y agoTry http://www.startbodyweight.com/p/start-bodyweight-basic-routine.html?m=1 http://www.startbodyweight.com/p/start-bodyweight-basic-rout... Or https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommended_routine/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...
- alc90 10y agoFor me this year will be about focusing on growth for my new SaaS venture. I'd like to learn how to sell a SaaS product - talk with customers and gather feedback and also how to manage a business. Also I would like to learn more about marketing and different growth hacking techniques. P.S. Also if you are in need of Intercom analytics please give us a try - I would be glad to have you onboard. https://www.tinymetrics.in https://www.tinymetrics.in https://www.twitter.com/tinymetrics https://www.twitter.com/tinymetrics
- kome 10y agoI would like to learn Rebol (http://www.rebol.com/ http://www.rebol.com/) and Red (http://www.red-lang.org/ http://www.red-lang.org/). And that's how I plan to do it: - https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/red/ https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/red/ - http://redprogramming.com/Home.html http://redprogramming.com/Home.html - http://easiestprogramminglanguage.com/easiest_programming_language.html http://easiestprogramminglanguage.com/easiest_programming_la... - http://business-programming.com/business_programming.html http://business-programming.com/business_programming.html
- gm-conspiracy 10y agoLearn to play guitar.
- dkraft 10y agoWhether in house Docker Containers are worth the trouble or just continue using prefab templates and scripts on drop.io
- bacchus2017 10y agoWinemaking. Not the WinOS emulation kind. But the cultivation and fermentation of fruit. With the eventual goal (beyond 2017) of living on a producing vineyard. Formal study would be fine, perhaps at UC Davis' world class Viticulture and Oenology program. Or in Burgundy, France. But for now just apprenticing once a month at Wind Gap Wines in Sebastopol and seeing whence it leads
- wallflower 10y agoIt seems like you are pretty serious about this. If you have not already, read "The Hills of Chianti: The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family". https://www.amazon.com/Hills-Chianti-Tuscan-Winemaking-Bottles/dp/0847843882 https://www.amazon.com/Hills-Chianti-Tuscan-Winemaking-Bottl...
- candu 10y agoCanning / pickling (IIRC there's a course on Instructables), salsa / Latin dance (there's a local café / bar near me that does regular salsa nights), basic woodworking (my wife and I are making a bookcase and coffee table early 2017), mobile development (started with Android via the Developing Android Apps course, continuing with some projects plus Vogella and other tutorials to fill in specific knowledge gaps), game design / development (a combination of reading books such as The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, playing games and picking apart the design decisions, and working on game projects). Time will tell how much of this I actually get to, but at the very least I'll be busy :)
- wallflower 10y agoRe Salsa/Latin dance. The secret of learning Salsa (and other things) is that most people give up to early (after the 1st lesson, 2nd lesson). If you keep on going, the lessons that were hard for you in the beginning will become easy. If you keep going and get better and be (more) social and fun, the follower that you were intimidated to dance with will ask to dance with you... (the tipping point, an important milestone). If you can take lessons with your wife and practice with your wife at home, that will make it easier. The hardest thing for single persons who start learning Salsa is that they don't have someone to regularly practice with. This is usually not a problem for the most dedicated beginners, as they block off their free time for learning salsa (multiple lessons a week all the way up to multiple lessons a day). The most social tend to progress the fastest, as everyone wants to be around someone who is fun and social. Salsa is a community, like anything else. Addicted2Salsa has enough free lesson videos to keep you busy for a long time. https://www.addicted2salsa.com/ https://www.addicted2salsa.com/ Start listening to Salsa music instead of other music, so you can pick up the '1' (or the '2') beat. Buena suerte!
- nonsince 10y agoI've moved to the Netherlands alone less than 6 months ago - so Dutch is high on the list of things that I want to learn (I can read it pretty well already, but I can't speak or write it very well). I'm using Duolingo, plus I have some Dutch friends already who help me out. On top of that I want to learn industry game development techniques, including finally getting a solid grasp on C++. I've got a pretty strong grasp of systems engineering concepts and memory management since I'm very active in the Rust community but by the end of the year I want to be qualified to get a job in the games industry. Web development is not going to be my career, that's for certain. I'm reading through various maths-for-computer-scientists books, and I've got a bunch of highly-recommended game dev books (Game Engine Architecture, Real-time Rendering, looking at getting Real-time Collision Detection) in my library. I was an avid amateur mathematician in a past life, so although I'm rusty I'm getting back into my stride quite fast. If anyone has more tips on how to get your foot into the door in game development (engine/tools development, very specifically _not_ programming the game itself) I'd be extremely grateful.
- ejanus 10y agoI have game development in my list...looks like I should pair up with you.
- nonsince 10y agoIf you want to contribute to anything, I'll be posting it on my GitHub at https://github.com/jFransham https://github.com/jFransham. I've got the start of a game in Rust on there at the moment, but it's nothing like production-ready (and there's no actual _game_ there yet, it's just testing code).
- ejanus 10y agoThanks .... I will fork and follow you repo. But I need to learn Rust :)
- firewalkwithme 10y agoI want to learn how to walk on my hands. I will achieve this by repeated wall hand stands at home. I also want to learn how to live again and how to respect myself, so that I can create a distance between me and work, and stop wasting my short life in an office
- jdmoreira 10y agoI'm planning to learn Swedish. I've been living in Sweden for one and an half year now and so far I've made zero effort to learn. I plan to learn by myself with a combination of duolingo, babel, flash cards, traditional teaching books and audio cds. My girlfriend is Swedish so I can train at home. Any tips are welcome!
- bobbyisgood 10y agoI may just do the wim hof method sometime in the year. After a crazy 2016 where I let the information flood me, I feel that understanding and appreciation for things was low. My intuition says it might be better to focus on a thing a month or two (depending on how alien the thing is) to get to a place where the mind has adjusted its cache eviction policies and made the new item into L1/L2). In terms of practical benefits, I still hunt for python idioms on a routine basis. Owning and flipping through a book occasionally comes to mind. Any suggestions? (I am pretty good with multiple years on the language across 2 and 3) I would like to stop flirting with machine learning and just finish essential chapters from statistical inference and spend time on linear algebra. Then maybe I would try to understand backpropagation for real. Meanwhile, applications must continue to be built and I must learn effective techniques to preprocess data. I would like to do more work in Pandas and Hive. I've found my notes to be a trustworthy friend. I need to set myself a reward system to inculcate a habit of writing more (daily thoughts, project ideas, blog...) (and on paper) I would like to fingerpick a few songs I have in mind too. This would be a good list if I go deep. Could I make space for haskell, clojure, scala? Probably not. Might just read Backus's functional language paper though. One book to read every month - The Power of Now.
- snowcrshd 10y agoHere are my goals for 2017: - 10 seconds Free-standing Handstand: Practice 6-7 days a week, for twenty minutes, following the GMB Handstand progressions. - 10 seconds advanced tuck back-lever on the gymnastics rings: Practice 3-4x week, following FitnessFAQs progressions. - Bulgarian split squats, 4x12 50kg: I'll go with a somewhat linear progression -- work from 3x8 up to 4x12. When I do 3 workouts using 4x12, I'll up the weight by 2-4kg and start a new cycle. - Books I'll read: 1. Gödel, Escher, Bach 2. Black Swan 3. The Society of Mind 4. Code complete (I'll read a chapter every week) - Finally learn about compilers/interpreters: 1. Work through "Writing an interpreter in Go" 2. Work through "Language Implementation Patterns" 4. Work through "Engineering a Compiler book" 5. Do the Kaleidoscope LLVM tutorial in OCaml - Get good at algorithms to have a better chance at landing a job in one of the the big 4: 1. Work through HackerRank's Cracking the Coding Interview track: I'll do 3 challenges every day until I am finished. 2. Solve as many problems from LeetCode [1] as I can: I'll solve 2 problems every day. 3. Work through the "Algorithm Design Manual book" - Really learn Java. Java 8 looks interesting and I see there are a lot of job opportunities for Java devs. Looks like a plan! [1]: http://www.learn4master.com/interview-questions/leetcode/leetcode-problems-classified-by-company http://www.learn4master.com/interview-questions/leetcode/lee...
- gcav 10y agoI think learning the handstand is a great idea. For me, handstands helped relieve a ton of shoulder pain I had from football + too many bench/bicep workouts. It also just looks super cool to boot and you can do them anywhere. Best of luck
- snowcrshd 10y agoHahah, thanks! I'm currently working on wall leg flutters. My balance improved a lot after I increase training frequency to 5-6 days a week (in comparison to 3x).
- joe563323 10y agoSICP might interest you.
- nojvek 10y agoMy goal for 2017 is to finish some of the projects I started in 2016. 1) VSCode extensions for code coverage and inline debugging decorators. 2) Rasberry Pi Self Driving Car. Autonomously navigate from A to B 3) VR Meditation app. You are a god and different sounds of "Om" creates beautiful landscapes and life. From non-technical side I want to: 1) Keep up meditating everyday. 2) Write one chapter of my book a week. 3) Once my wrist recovers, go back and hit the gym. 4) Take some dancing and art classes.
- sudshekhar 10y ago> 2) Rasberry Pi Self Driving Car. Autonomously navigate from A to B This seems interesting. What are the resources you're using? Do share a blog post about it once you're finished!
- nojvek 10y agoIts still in the works. I have a github repo with the build https://github.com/nojvek/RasberryPiSelfDrivingCar https://github.com/nojvek/RasberryPiSelfDrivingCar I want to mount the structure sensor from occipital which gives depth info and be able to build a map of my house. Still a lot of things need to be done but I have ideas on how to make it work.
- afarrell 10y agoI want to learn to draw mediocre comics. Eventually, I want to be able to draw tutorials like https://jvns.ca/strace-zine-v2.pdf https://jvns.ca/strace-zine-v2.pdf or http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=22 http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=22
- afarrell 10y agoMy plan is to keep a cadance of one doodle a day on my intuos tablet. I'll start out with 100 days of drawing anything. After 100 days, I'll start trying to make them more tutorial-oriented. Then I'll start working on cartoons about Linux commands. I might also explicitly just imitate some of Julia Evans' stuff. I might do some maps of US revolutionary war battles or diagrams of contra dance steps. By the end of the year, I hope to have done at least a few illustrations for the Postgres docs.
- NumberCruncher 10y agoNew people who share my interests. In 2016 I started dancing again (I had a break of 4 years and forgot almost everything) because a buddy of mine needed company at the salsa course. I started bouldering in spite of my back problems because a college of mine needed company in the boulder-hall next to our office. Now I want to trade my drinking / women obsessed buddies for folks intrested in web dev side projects. It is quite lonely if you can not talk about your hobbies. On the other hand I want to learn urban sketching.
- mmargerum 10y agoLearn clojure. The time feels right for functional programming with react and datomic. Been doing imperative and OO for 25 years. I've never gotten around to learning a lispish language. I find rich hickeys talks very inspiring. Smart people have a way of making complex things seem simple.
- joe563323 10y agoCalculus, Statics, Machine learning, Economics courses in coursera. Being more helpful to colleagues. More exercise. Less browsing. Less junk food. More water. Mastery over profiling tools. Understanding how floating points work. Working out the floating point exercises to make sure i had understood. Learn to form sentences without using "I".
- Tharkun 10y agoMy biggest personal goal for 2017: read more. I only read 20 non-technical books in 2016, which is probably the lowest number since I learnt how to read. I've set up a "want to read"-list on goodreads and I'm rearranging my schedule to make room for reading time.
- krapp 10y ago1) I'd like to learn how to create a programming language. Nothing complex or groundbreaking, but i've always been curious about how that all works. Maybe if it works well enough (it won't) I'd even adopt it as a scripting language for 2) Game development. Either to really learn Unity or C++/SDL/GL but put out something that isn't utterly basic and pedestrian. 3) I don't know. Something new. I'd hate for my life to have become so predictable that I can easily predict what opportunities will arise or what the limits of my ability to learn will be.
- jamesmp98 10y agoI think I'm trying to get in Salesforce development. I don't know if it's possible for a self-taught (predominantly) hobbyist developer to pick it up, but Apex does not seem to complicated. I'll probably come up with something simple but useful and publish to the App Exchange store. I also might mess around with the Salesforce Heroku connect and build some Spring or Play application to connect with Salesforce data.
- jetti 10y agoElixir/Phoenix -> I'm starting a greenfield project that I'll get to work on commercially that will be using Elixir/Phoenix for the API backend, so that will be a thrill there Woodworking -> I'm going to have more free time this year so I want to get back into learning woodworking and actually building and finishing pieces. My first goal is to re-build my workbench and make it smaller so it takes up less room in the garage. After that, I have an idea on a stand that will go next to my couch. Marketing -> I've created a software product that I'm selling and I want to figure out how to market better so that I can actually sell my product
- raj7desai 10y agoI am working on starting a computer programming school in India over the next year. So going to focus on learning a lot of learning methodologies and learning as much as I can about various ways of teaching programming effectively.
- xk0nsid 10y ago1. I'm either gonna pick up Golang or Rust in 2017 and go all the way with whichever one I pick. 2. gRPC/Protobufs 3. Kubernetes is also on the list. I really wanna understand how microservices work in production (deployment, monitoring, recovering, debugging). 4. Practical Deep Learning (TensorFlow/Keras etc) Any suggestions/guidance for any one of those will be really helpful. PS: I'm from C++ and python background.
- ud0 10y agoFill Front-end Engineering knowledge-gaps, currently using https://www.frontendhandbook.com/ https://www.frontendhandbook.com/ as a guide. Learn CS basics, Data structures, Algorithms. Plant to use this => https://github.com/open-source-society/computer-science https://github.com/open-source-society/computer-science as a guide I'm a self-taught front-end developer without a CS degree, coding professionally for 4 years now.
- wordpressdev 10y agoMy goal for 2017 is to learn something new everyday. However, I will be concentrating more on Python and try to learn enough Python to assist me in Business Process Automation and Data Analysis. I have listed my goals here: http://www.kashifaziz.me/new-year-resolution-2017-goals-plans.html/#learnnew http://www.kashifaziz.me/new-year-resolution-2017-goals-plan...
- alramadhan 10y agoI want to learn about how to be a good technical leader. I just promoted into a new position and i have to handle 80 developers. So 2017 will be a huge experience for me.
- _navaneethan 10y agoI want to develop good applications in Golang. I would like to explore opencv in python in 2017
- keviv 10y ago- I'm learning Elixir and Phoenix and want to build a side project using it. - Want to learn about sysadmin stuff. I know the basics but I want to learn about automating the infrastructure using various tools like docker, ansible, terraform, etc. - Definitely want to learn and build cool IoT stuff.
- catwell 10y agoEconomics. I have started to get interested in them in 2016. Like most topics I get into, I started by looking at the history of the field. I also read Basic Economics. Now I would like to start taking actual lessons, either Coursera or maybe even physical classes at some point, if I can find good ones compatible with my work schedule in Paris. I also want to get up to date with the most important advances in my field (distributed systems and algorithms). I did follow research in 2015, but not in 2016, so I have to catch up a bit.
- saddington 10y agoI've already started this just a few weeks ago... but i'm working on my video production and editing skills as i learn to vlog on YouTube. http://john.show/ http://john.show/ Some other things that I'm excited to learn is how community is created, managed, and sustained in this type of medium. It's a creative challenge that has been really hard in the past few weeks, but, I've already learned a ton.
- Yuvrajv5 10y agoCopywriting
- grigy 10y agoLearn to build great UIs, fast. I think this is the most important skill for testing app ideas and eventually creating a product.
- dojomouse 10y agoFinish working through 'AI - A modern approach' Finish reading 'From AI to Zombies' Get to a point with Rust that it's my go-to language for personal app development and general scripting. Super happy to see Rust feature so often on people's lists btw. Get to a point with general Machine Learning understanding and proficiency that I feel I can usefully contribute to OpenAI work. Build a retaining wall under my house, and have it still be retaining the things it's intended to retain come the end of the year...
- 0xFFC 10y agoBecoming C++ guru, I mean in professional way. My 2017 mean focus on C++ as much as possible, then apply for C++ job abroad ! (I think about going to Europe or US). p.s. I have bachelor degree in CS, and my theoretical (specially in Design and Analysis of Algorithms and Operating Systems) foundation is rock solid, maybe same level of a last year graduate student from ordinary university (not top-notch of course). But I need to learn more about Compilers and Programming Languages and their underlying technology, and I have chosen C++ as language that I want to spend my career on. So 2017 for me means C++ ! (and a little bit of Rust). Another things I really like to get my hands really dirty is build tools. I do use CMake for my personal projects, but I want to learn Autotools, Meson, gn, etc. Because I fucking hate build tools, so I think knowing more and more, is good idea to understand whats going on in build tools area. p.s. I wish next year this time, I can look at past and proud myself! I wish, wish me success HN!