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Ask HN: What did you learn in 2019?
What was the process like? How long did it take? Any special methods you used? Would you do it the same way if you did it over again?
- BishoyDemian 7y agoThat no matter how good you are at the tech. You need to mature professionally (comms, etc.) in order to avoid undermining your full career potential. - source: I manage a small team of senior SW engineers </end of rant>
- lukaszkups 7y agoI've learnt basics of Godot game engine. It still a ongoing process but managed to learn it for like a week in my spare time.
- thedevindevops 7y agoInteresting, I went for Defold instead
- namelessone 7y agoBoth a good choice
- moksly 7y agoHow to utilise python as a replacement for C# in a heavy Microsoft/Azure enterprise setting where powershell and Python play a larger and larger role.
- fastbeef 7y agoCorporations view coding as grunt work, the real challenges/money are in selling strategy. 2020 will be the year where I act on this insight.
- mrfusion 7y agoCould you provide an example?
- adesode 7y agoI learned javascript
- sprinfo 7y agoAlways learn. Even if you think you know it all, you don't.
- claudiug 7y agoi learn javascript. i regret.
- gradschool 7y ago- setting up a minimal static site on AWS S3 with Bootstrap - setting up a minimal serverless ecommerce back end in Go with AWS Lambda, Stripe, Easypost, and Parcel2Go - video editing with Blender (for a presentation, about a week) - 3d modeling with Blender (for a book cover, about a month) Blender would have been impossible for me to learn by any other means than watching video tutorials with Blender open in another window and trying out every little thing as it's demonstrated. Go and AWS required taking baby steps for months.
- el_dev_hell 7y agoNEVER EVER EVER SIGN A CONTRACT WITHOUT READING IT FIRST. EVER. From anyone. Seriously, anyone. If your best friend in the entire world hands you a contract, read every word. If your mother gives you a contract, READ EVERY WORD.
- mrfusion 7y agoIt’s a great rule but what about eulas? What about mortgage docs? Credit card agreements? You could spend a lot of time reading all that stuff.
- el_dev_hell 7y ago> eulas Fair point on this one. It's pretty difficult. I don't have a good solution here. > What about mortgage docs? Yes. 1000% yes. What kind of insane person wouldn't read their mortgage agreement in full? I read the entire PDS of every lender I was considering. > Credit card agreements? Yes. Jesus, yes!
- mrfusion 7y agoExercise needs to be fun. Otherwise you won’t stick with it. (At least for myself)
- mrfusion 7y agoElectrolyte levels matter! If you’re getting cramps or muscle pain look into sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, zinc in your diet. Oh and if you cook at home all the time it’s pretty easy to not get your RDA of sodium.
- meiraleal 7y agoCarbs are poison, including fructose.