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“Things I wish” in Hacker News
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- Amorymeltzer 9y agoWhenever I have a stupid question or a weird problem that I google, 95 of the time I find a blog post detailing how someone fixed it. It's a small thing, perhaps, but it really is worth appreciating all the people who take the time to help point other folks on their way.
- lhuser123 9y agoYeah. And that's what we have to keep in mind when complaining. Sometimes I have to say to myself, wait a minute, at least he/she took the time to write about it.
- haburka 9y agoI love how the things I wish I knew about JavaScript includes shorthand declaration for objects and arrays, the Math function and how great json is. It must have been a much simpler time.
- josephwegner 9y agoI put a 2-year time box on it - my guess is that that's short enough that will make most of the learnings still mostly relevant. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22things%20i%20wish%22&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22things%20i%20wish%22&sort=b...
- pattisapu 9y agoIf wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
- arikr 9y agoI look forward to when in the future some automated system knows what everyone is doing in the upcoming week/month/yr and automatically shows them "things I wish" style things relevant to them.
- gcoda 9y agoThey already exist. Systems like you described, they know when and, in what order, expose you to new ideas so you will came to desired conclusion.
- arikr 9y agoTell me more?
- gcoda 9y ago"cambridge analytica" is big and public one. Facebook did some experiments too, selling to depressed teenagers or something... They know "things you wish you knew", they know what is beneficial to you, but they will use this knowledge to manipulate you, they will use stuff you don't know against you to persuade you and me on scale, and later we will write "I wish I knew" but nobody will listen. It's better to show ad about new nosql in town, and make some money, if they know you will make a mistake of trying new framework instead of sticking with what you know and what works, they will show you ads for online courses.
- cdiamand 9y agoAnother fun query, if you're searching for a side project, is "wish there was" https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22wish%20there%20was%22&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22wish%20there%20was%22&sort=... At one point, I thought about creating a feed for http://oppsdaily.com http://oppsdaily.com using this. EDIT: Also, "software that could" https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22software%20that%20could%22&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22software%20that%20could%22&...
- AznHisoka 9y agoThese guys do something similar looking for product ideas in amazon reviews by searching for "I wish this..." https://www.fastcompany.com/3021229/chaim-pikarski-the-amazon-whisperer https://www.fastcompany.com/3021229/chaim-pikarski-the-amazo...
- cdiamand 9y agoOh awesome! Thanks for sharing this. "Hipe is one of many thousands of products Pikarski has produced over the past 10 years" Thousands of products. That's incredible.
- melnonic 9y agoHacker News is starting to get hate from Economists who claim Computer Scientists are morons: https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/the-coders-over-at-hackernews-are-attacking-my-friends-on-ejmr https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/the-coders-over-at-hacke...
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- King-Aaron 9y agoI always viewed economics degrees as one of those fall-back options anyway, kind of like a business degree or studying philosophy. "I need to get a Bachelor of something, hand me that lucky dip box please and let's see what we get"
- hkmurakami 9y agoThis was particularly true during the pre-crash years when Econ was the _default_ college major because finance was so much more lucrative than other disciplines. Frankly, now CS is the _default_ college major in at least the elite sort of places with an abundance of smart students with a lack of direction. A career as in software (whether it be as a SWE or PM) is on a per hour basis now so much more lucrative than most other disciplines.
- learc83 9y agoEcon is still the most popular major at every ivey league school. And CS isn't even in the top ten among all colleges. Overall CS is an order of magnitude smaller than business adminstration.
- nthcolumn 9y agoQuants will buy their moms.
- hkmurakami 9y agoI'm a Princeton alum. The largest Freshman declared major is CS [1]. That's from a Dean's mouth. I was absolutely shocked since we are one of the most prominent WS feeder schools. [1] presumably some will switch majors but piling into a lucrative major as a freshman is a strong signal of how students perceive the industries.
- sidcool 9y agoVery useful. Earlier I would search for Angular and hope to get a good article. This helped.
- mettamage 9y agoOk, this is the perfect place to say how I use Algolia :) I view HN as follows: smart people upvote interesting resources. Among those resources are educational resources. These resources are potentially of very high quality. It's a good reason to upvote something into oblivion. So whenever I want to learn something, I don't go to Google first. I go to Hacker news. I type in the topic I want to learn, and hope that there are highly upvoted educational resources. Two things can happen: 1. The upvoted resource is amazing. 2. The upvoted resource gets burned to the ground in the comments. In the case of 2, then there is almost always a good recommendation to find in the comments. Sometimes these comments are standalone comments -- a bit risky, but better than nothing. Sometimes these comments are well supported by positive raving child comments.
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- roansh 9y ago"i wish" gets more interesting results :)