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Oh, you will feel much better once you have mastered: 1. Programming chips in binary, machine code, and C. You need a variety of chips. Try to learn at least 5
by inputcoffee 9y ago
Oh, you will feel much better once you have mastered:
1. Programming chips in binary, machine code, and C. You need a variety of chips. Try to learn at least 5 from each manufacturer.
2. Learn at least 37 Javascript frameworks, as evenly divided between front-end and server side as you can. (Good news: angular 1 and 2 count as 2 frameworks).
3. Learn Scala, Rust, Haskell, C, C#, Java. (Python and Ruby go without saying).
4. Learn R, machine learning, statistics (prob and regressions), linear algebra and multi-variate calculus.
5. Learn growth hacking (edit:) and lean startup, human centered design, and design thinking.
6. Learn accounting, finance (go through Markowitz, to Black Scholes, Fama, CAPM, and factor models. Read the original papers only and implement everything yourself, in 2 languages).
Now you are ready to read HN.
- dcdanko 9y agoA concise and useful list of suggestions.
- gorbachev 9y agoYou forgot entrepreneurial skills. Obviously at the top of that list should be the ability to raise funds from VCs.
- inputcoffee 9y agoYou're right. I edited the growth hacking line a little. I don't know if I can recommend "learning" to raise from VCs but you're right they should practice all aspects of launching and running a company a few times by doing it.
- smt88 9y agoSmall quibble: fundraising is not an entrepreneurial skill. It's a substitute for lacking those skills. If a business is solid, no funding is needed. Or, if it is needed, it's easy to get.
- gorbachev 9y agoTo be an entrepreneur is to raise funds. I thought this was accepted as absolute truth in Silicon Valley.
- fuzzfactor 9y agoI must respectfully disagree. Forming or becoming a capitalist organization using Other People's Money is a perfectly valid approach for an entrepreneur to take, and if so whether funds should be raised from VC's or other sources is the kind of uncertian decision that entrepreneurs have to rise to, yes. But it's also possible to be a complete entrepreneur by using only your own resources whether that is primarily funds or not. You may or may not need to choose a low-resource-requirement business to operate. You may also survive or prosper in a capitalist environment and/or compete in a capitalist market without being a capitalist at all. At least since recorded history anyway. IMHO the top of the list for entrepreneurial skills should be the ability to develop the best income from the most satisfied clientele.
- Lordarminius 9y agoSo true.
- anacleto 9y ago37? Only?
- inputcoffee 9y agoI don't want it to be overwhelming.
- robsun 9y agoYou simply skipped 3 great, must-have, state-of-art frameworks released this week.
- roryisok 9y agoAngular is a thing of the past. You need to be using OrbitalJS, or Conker. Sabre is also gaining a lot of traction
- roryisok 9y agoI actually made all those up and nobody called me out on it
- Mz 9y agoYet one more reason to not get overwhelmed here.:-)
- inputcoffee 9y agoPerhaps you are not acquainted with the severe name shortage that currently threatens the Javascript community? https://github.com/orbitaljs https://github.com/orbitaljs https://www.npmjs.com/package/conker https://www.npmjs.com/package/conker https://www.programmableweb.com/library/sabre-dev-studio-node.js-library-sabre-dev-studio https://www.programmableweb.com/library/sabre-dev-studio-nod...
- roryisok 9y agoYou are fucking kidding me. I literally opened a dictionary for those
- te_platt 9y agoHardly. You still need: 1. An in depth understanding of Physics, History, Literature, and Philosophy. You can just make up whatever you want in Economics, Sociology, and Bitcoins as fits your political leanings. 2. Learn to resist weapons grade grammar analysis. 3. Learn to recognize sarcasm in short, written text.
- roryisok 9y ago> 3. Learn to recognize sarcasm in short, written text. No need. This is HN. Someone's bound to have used machine learning to crack this already.
- thenomad 9y agoWhat we need now is a text-to-speech engine programmed with The Mary Whitehouse Experience's "Man With A Sarcastic Tone Of Voice".
- mbrock 9y agoDuh, haven't you read "Automatic Sarcasm Detection: A Survey" by Joshi, Bhattacharyya and Carman? https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03426 https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03426
- fho 9y agoAnd for a second there I thought that you just made that up :-)
- zhte415 9y agoAnd Chinese or Japanese, especially characters; the argument of material design is much better replaced by everyone learning Chinese characters and just using that. HN is happy to contribute its wisdom to all fields.
- rounce 9y agoYou are being sarcastic, right?
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- joshvm 9y agoNot at all, in fact the OP was being generous. Where's computer vision and cryptography on that list?
- emiliobumachar 9y agoI don't normally downvote good jokes like this one, but I'm making an exception. Imagine if this rises to top (it's #2 now), and either the OP or someone in the same situation see it first, and fail to notice the irony.
- inputcoffee 9y agoNever thought of that. Phew, close call. You might have saved them.
- ryfm 9y agoadd network, linux kernel debugging, also containers.
- du_bing 9y agoHaha, are you serious? Or just joking?
- DougN7 9y agoHe was totally joking - sarcasm.
- xg15 9y agoYou've forgotten advanced knowledge in neural networks, molecular biology and (for some reason) medieval books.
- HiroshiSan 9y agoI've done all this but still don't know why I keep getting asked why manhole covers are round!! Pls help?
- inputcoffee 9y agoJust say "you look at the manhole covers and ask 'why'; I look at the same covers and ask 'why not'" That's the secret answer at McKinsey.
- lazyant 9y agoyou still need your pet theory for the evergreen topics: diets, state surveillance, healthcare (US) and education (US)
- PerfectElement 9y agoYou also need to read at least one 1000 page fiction book per week and be on some version of the "paleo" diet.