Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?

Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by oh-4-fucks-sake on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:12PM (#22238109)

I guess I understand how many people dislike cooking, I guess. For me, it's a very creative, relaxing, rewarding, (and necessary) process in my life. For me, it's like coding, but with ingredients. Take a bunch of relatively trivial components, and combine them creatively into something complex, useful, even beautiful--inspiring. You generally follow "industry best practices", but there's plenty of room for interpretation or establishing your own patterns.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by andrewzah on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:23PM (#22238240)

It’s like coding but with none of the frustrations. You can’t get stuck midway because you have an incompatible version of carrots. All you need is ingredients and a good repertoire of recipes to draw from.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by kbrackbill on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:20PM (#22238994)

Huh, I feel the exact opposite- it's like coding with a bunch of extra frustrations like shopping and cleaning, and the possibility of messing up in an irreversible way (burning something, for example).

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by sixstringtheory on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:55PM (#22241448)

Software production involves planning, gathering requirements, estimating, testing, refactoring, evaluating acceptance criteria.... not just writing code. Personally, yes, the coding is one of the more fun parts. The others are like cleaning dishes, which I hate to do above all else. But I love to cook (and I love a clean kitchen) so I put up with the rest.

But I hear you on the burning. I've burnt plenty of things in my time. I think any cook worth their salt has. Story time: an executive chef I once worked for had a keychain that looked like a pewter ingot. She said one evening as they were finishing their shift, they thought they could leave a 30 gallon pot over very low heat to make a reduction over night. When they arrived in the morning, the pot had mostly melted and the stove was on fire. Her keychain was part of the melted pot, her reminder to never do that again. Live and learn (and hopefully don't burn the house down)!

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by jschwartzi on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:03PM (#22239607)

That's all part of the fun of learning to cook. I've burned so many things over the years it's almost like a game. I've made hundreds of ommlettes for breakfast and burned at least 30. Each time it was a learning experience, and it taught me to pay attention to what I'm doing and not get sidetracked trying to pack for the day or take garbage out or clean the refrigerator.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by andrewzah on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:39PM (#22242365)

Cleaning isn't so bad if you handle it immediately and treat it as a meditative experience. I just think about whatever while washing dishes or throw on a relaxing podcast occasionally.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by oh-4-fucks-sake on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:24AM (#22254707)

podcasts are my personal meth for cleaning my kitchen

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by account42 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @07:50AM (#22246289)

Now I want to be able to git reset --hard my kitchen.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by exdsq on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:50PM (#22238619)

I love cooking but I’m not very good at it. I can assure you there are ways to get stuck halfway :P

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by dynamite-ready on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:30AM (#22245306)

Well, yes... But once compiled, you can never make a change and rebuild!

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by reaperducer on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:32PM (#22239174)

Cooking is like coding.

Baking is like quantum physics.

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by sixstringtheory on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:57PM (#22241463)

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

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Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? by mudlark on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:03PM (#22238770)

My taste is broken, once used to chef, and do cook daily still, but when you do not enjoy food - it just becomes a bind.

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