Re:Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
by escape-effect on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:21AM
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It's harder to focus on learning a single thing perfectly with all the noise out there. Did you get employed as a python developer?
Re:Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
by rwnspace on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:02AM
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Nah, it turns out opportunities for Python + first job in the UK are somewhat rare, especially as I don't have a completed degree. If you don't live in London, C#/.NET or JS + a framework make up 90% of opportunities. Of course, just learning the right language isn't how it works, and it took me a while to take that on board.
> It's harder to focus on learning a single thing perfectly with all the noise out there
Preach! I've definitely flipflopped languages and target positions based on a combination of reading posts here (and on Reddit), and a few damning/exciting articles or blog posts - not that I'd admit that at the time. I continue to seriously consider various levels of disconnection from the web, from blocking a couple of sites, to editing my hosts file, to using my routers child-blocking settings (block device by time, website etc)...
I studied a fair bit of CS, but in a fairly shallow way (it's been a decade since my last maths lesson).
This year I proved to myself I could learn lots - next year is proving I can do the same, just in one or two things!