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Vague "something"... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Similarly, I'm aiming to learn a new language over the next two months, but I don't think that would count. That's still only "half-new", as it takes much more work than that to get any proper learning down with natural languages.
Re:Vague "something"... (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't know that about you.
And I'm done for the day.
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And I about you..
I'm done for the year.
I feel this has been a very productive day for the both of us. Let us celebrate with some inebriation.
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I'm aiming to learn a new language over the next two months,
Good luck. Two months is incredibly ambitious for learning a new language. six months to a year is more like it, but remember some people spend two or three years without getting it. Keep going though, even after two months; the key is persistence, and eventually you'll get it!
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Depends what you mean by "learn." I just picked up Python. Read a book on it, wrote some code.
I have a functional grasp of the language, but it's going to be at least a few months before I'm an expert, and can create big things without having to refer to the documentation.
Maybe he meant "get a functional understanding of x language?"
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yesterday i learned that awk produces a string on error and that usleep will accept strings and treat them as "0". i also learned that to stop from learning these things the hard way i should #!/bin/bash -e from now on in that script so that exits on error rather than humming along at infinite speed... i sent 7k fetches to a telephony system in a matter of seconds, crashing their hosted network.... and i'm sure i'll learn how much the owners appreci
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Spot on.
The "something" in "learn something new" does not have to be a huge topic. It can simply be a new (to you) fact, or a realization that doing something this way is easier than doing it that way. Keep your eyes open, think about what's going on around you, and it's pretty easy to find that something.
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The "something" in "learn something new" does not have to be a huge topic. It can simply be a new (to you) fact, or a realization that doing something this way is easier than doing it that way. Keep your eyes open, think about what's going on around you, and it's pretty easy to find that something.
Often it's a simple as deciding to do something a better way. Instead of spending 10 minutes to do something the way I always have, I spend 30 to find a better way. Computers give oodles of opportunities for this, especially in the form of configuring, or scripting, something one does repeatedly.
Or doing a job around the house that I've been putting off, because I didn't want to work out how to do it (eg. how to poison a grape vine).
There's also news items on subjects I know nothing about, and am not norma
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I would consider something to be something, anything, regardless how big or how small. Information that seems small and insignificant can still affect your perception and understanding of the world around you.
Today I learned the kanji for alcohol, how to use adjectives with verbs in Japanese so that I can say whether or not someone is good at something, likes something, etc, that cavalier was a term used for supporters of King Charles I as well as being a term for a fortification and the name of a car, and
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I learn something new every time I visit cnn.com
I usually go there if I'm in a hurry to find three impossible things before breakfast.
Define New (Score:1)
Everyday, since I am learning kanji (Score:3)
2 years ago I started learning Japanese. Last year I started learning kanji.
So I force myself to learn something new every single day, or I'll never know even the grade school kanji list.
Learning 3 to 4 new kanji every day, and repeating them lots of times is the only way to learn the grade school kanji within 1 year.
Even then I'll probably need another year of repeating things every day to really 'know' them.
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You do know that you won't get a Japanese girlfriend even if you learn their language? They're still women you know ...
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As someone who lives in Japan...
Even the ugliest socially inept troll (by American Standards) can get a girlfriend here, as long as they're a foreigner.
It's kind of like how American Girls will fawn all over a British dude with his teeth poking out of his cheek just because they like his accent.
Re:Everyday, since I am learning kanji (Score:5, Funny)
As someone who lives in Japan...
Even the ugliest socially inept troll (by American Standards) can get a girlfriend here, as long as they're a foreigner.
It's kind of like how American Girls will fawn all over a British dude with his teeth poking out of his cheek just because they like his accent.
And how much does a ticket to Japan cost?
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Any cheap group deals?
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Yea, we need to get out of here before this place fills up with Brits.
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NHK airs Japanese lessons for people of various languages on its international shortwave RADIO JAPAN service. On this site, you can listen to those lessons.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/lesson/index.html [nhk.or.jp]
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I've been doing something similar, though I got a bit lazy after the first 120 Kanji ;) (Started picking up the pace again last month). Maybe it's the fact that I live in Japan so I see kanji every day, but I really haven't lost any of the ones I learned last year, not even the proper stroke order (well, a couple I did, but only because the official stroke order was awkward for me).
When I was hitting them pretty hard last year, I just took a few minutes several times a day to write the ones I knew (usually
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Seeing them daily would be a great help I imagine.
I practice traditional Japanese jujutsu, and my currciculum has the Japanese names printed next to them.
The kanji which I have an external link to (like names of techniques etc) stick much better in my mind than the ones I only see in the kanji list.
The least I can say is that Japanese is an interesting language.
And sometimes not without a sense of humor. When I learned the kanji for 'target' I thought to myself 'hey, that sounds familiar. And kin means 'gol
every minute (Score:3)
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Every time I refresh slashdot is an attempt to learn something new.
And a failure most of the time ;-)
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Every time I refresh slashdot is an attempt to learn something new.
And a failure most of the time ;-)
The poll only says "try" . . .
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Every time I refresh slashdot is an attempt to learn something new.
And a failure most of the time ;-)
The poll only says "try" . . .
There. I learned something today: to read TFPT before replying.
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ur doin et rong
Fossilizing (Score:3)
From time to time, I think about a Slashdot comment many years back warning about the tendency of some people to get stuck with their favourite programming environment and diss everything else.
If you're old-school, that might be COBOL or RPG on some platform (or Perl or Java :). But it's exactly the same for the "in" languages and platforms today. They may not have seen their best time yet, but tying your carrier to them forever may not be the best idea. While some people waste a lot of time chasing the fads, at one point one of those fads may actually turn out to be a substantially better tool in some areas than what you're using today. Even if it's not immediately obvious.
Something to keep in mind.
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Fossilize apostle and I comb it with a rake.
I don't *only* code in Perl for any of those reasons. I've tried other languages, and no other language has given me that warm fuzzy feeling that Perl has. The only language that comes close is maybe Ruby. For me, what I code in is a matter of personal passion, and nothing else.
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I was wondering if anyone would recognize that. :)
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The hard part is learning to be efficient in your *first* language, the rest just kind of naturally follow
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T
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Agreed. Back in the day, interviewing potential software developers, I looked for people who knew at least two radically different languages -- I knew they'd likely have little problem coming up to speed on something new (and our apps had some specialized scripting languages).
My first two computer languages were Algol and APL (no, I wasn't learning them in alphabetical order, it just worked out that way). Definitely different.
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My first two computer languages were Algol and APL (no, I wasn't learning them in alphabetical order, it just worked out that way). Definitely different.
Obviously, otherwise you would have started with A and then A+.
Not necessarily (Score:2)
There are different language paradigms -- structured, object-oriented, procedural, functional come to mind. Some of those (in particular functional languages) require a rather different mindset than the others. So it's not always a simple matter of learning a new syntax.
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Which brings me to try Haskell time and time again. And some things just stick, e.g. map/reduce comes to mind.
It just happens (Score:2)
It's not like I have "learn something new" on my agenda.
It just happens. And I can't make it stop.
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I'm sure many people don't acknowledge or realize that it happens, which is sad.
Goal of Life (Score:2)
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The Goal of our life is to know everything about everything.
So just before dying, when you realize you don't know everything about everything, you will consider your life a failure?
My goal is most certainly not to know everything about everything. If anything, I try to set my goals reachable.
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Then your goal is to learn as much as you can on every topic maybe. But not to learn everything about everything as you put it. That way at the end of your life you can say you've reached your goal (if you've reached it).
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if you are not learning - then you are dead (Score:2)
and you stay an interestig person people like to talk with.
Sad fact is when you get older, your learning will slow down and already learned things are in the way to understand
un-learning is slow and painful.
20 years ago I learned a programming language in weeks, now it takes months.
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Whew. I was worried there for a minute.
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and you stay an interestig person people like to talk with.
Maybe if you work in a university, otherwise most of the people you interact with will be more interested in sports and reality TV.
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Honestly, if you ask me "why is there wind?" out of the blue, all you're going to get is a blank stare !!
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The blank stare is better in my book. That way he will run away, saving me the trouble to do so myself.
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Maybe if you work in a university, otherwise most of the people you interact with will be more interested in sports and reality TV.
Luckily I find it just as easy to learn what the latest TV-show is called as it is to learn a new programming language.
This.
Just because I don't like American Idol doesn't mean i don't know who the judges are or, toward the end, who the finalists are. In fact, keeping tabs on the sports page or the Jersey Shore cast doesn't have to be *inherently* useful to be *actually* useful.
Think about it: I'm a network admin, so I think it terms of Windows servers, Linux servers, NAS, SAN, Fiber Channel, and TCP/IP. If I were to sit down at a bar and talk to the person next to me, the odds are very good that they won't have the first c
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Try? (Score:2)
I wouldn't say I "try" to learn something new every day, it just happens, usually more than once a day.
Every Day (Score:1)
What do you think wikipedia [wikipedia.org] is for!?
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What do you think wikipedia [wikipedia.org] is for!?
Edit wars? :-)
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Starting celebrity death hoaxes?
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Every time my boss makes me... (Score:1)
No learning for the sake of learning (Score:1)
I don't learn something fore the sake of learning. I learn something because it interests me, or because I need it, or because I think it will be an advantage for me, or just as side effect of being exposed to it. Those options are not mutually exclusive, and probably also not complete. But what I definitely don't do is caring how much or how often I learn something. I tend to frequently learn new things, just because there's much interesting stuff out there, and also because I constantly find new things wo
What I can't learn I make up (Score:3)
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The dirty secret of America is that we are absolutely infested with poor leadership. We are terrible at picking people. It can be hard, yes, but we could do a lot better. For a management position, often we don't even try to pick a decent manager, we just engage in favoritism.
We devote a lot of time to trying to find the best candidates for non-leadership positions, and get it very wrong so very often. We're much too fixated on whether candidates know specific programming languages, and not whether th
Missing Option (Score:1)
I learn and forget....at about the same rate (Score:1)
I learn new things each and every day.
I forget just as many.
Meanwhile, my overall capacity continues to shrink with each passing day.
Get off my lawn.
I try to learn something new every... (Score:2)
...time I want to look smart. /. poll so honestly.
Gosh, I have never answered an
I find myself making personal plans all day, and then just standing there sitting on my butt.
=/
it helps... (Score:2)
It helps to maintain my rage :D
I try to learn new things by... (Score:1)
The older I get the less I know (Score:2)
But what that really means is the older I get the more I realize what I don't know. In my early 20's I had an answer for everything, now in my 50's things aren't nearly so straightforward.
Missing option: (Score:2)
I already know everything.
My grandmother said, at age 80ish (Score:2)
The only time you stop learning, is when you are dead.
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The only time you stop learning, is when you are dead.
when you die you learn what it is to be dead.. so it never stops..
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The only time you stop learning, is when you are dead.
when you die you learn what it is to be dead.. so it never stops..
When you die, you are not dead yet. The dead don't die.
mmmm (Score:1)
Missing Option: Never (Score:2)
I learn plenty by just living life and doing everyday stuff, I don't need a rule of "learning something new at a randomly chosen time interval" to dictate when I should take in new knowledge or skills.
The subtle details (Score:2)
I chose every so often. I thought about every day, but that seems to restrictive. I learn...when I learn. Sometimes it may be every minute I'm in the saddle of a unhappy horse, sometimes it could be not for a few days, because life is not always intense. Perhaps the fuzzy aspect to this survey is the meaning of learning. Watching the news I can learn about the world, but I see that as more information gathering, not learning. Reading how to scrape data fro html tags is not learning, its application of
While having... (Score:1)
Well, daily or weekly.... (Score:2)
It's not once a week, it's not once a day. Most days I learn something, but it's like the work week - you need some time off, not every day needs to be a learning experience.
Have to wonder (Score:2)
One has to wonder about those saying they try to learn something new ever hour. Makes one wonder if either they don't sleep or that they constantly dream about being in school or reading. Sounds pathological or dishonest/misinformed/poor self-reflection skills.
Re:Screw That! (Score:5, Funny)
I already know everything. Just ask my wife.
I did, she said "faster, and don't talk about him now".
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Bah, I hate that I can't undo a mistaken mod except by posting something superfluous.
Like this, for example.
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You're certainly not married. Everyone knows that the wife is always right. :)
[John]
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Re:Every Day (Score:4, Funny)
But unfortunately my brain is full and I forget something as well.
That's what happens when you get old.
At first it was LIFO, but as I get older it's becoming FIFO.
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No, I think he means "I can remember my locker combination from high school but I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning".
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Shit. I need to find a better way to spend my time.
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You're using "got out" the exact opposite of how I was. I meant "remembered", you meant "forgotten". That's why our terminology ended up being the opposite.
Both analogies make some sense, and both also break down pretty quickly.
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Well, for me at least, it's always been LIFO - "Out" meaning recall. Now, i have a LRU purging on the cache.
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It's not that your brain is full and you throw information out. If you happen to find an old exercise book from school, you'll be surprised not only the amount of what you learned back then, but you'll also notice that while you had forgotten it, you generally still recognize it. You may not be able to verify every detail, but the main part of the knowledge is still there. You cannot access it at will, but if you come across it, you'll know that this is the information you once learned, and have "forgotten"
Re:"We need you to..." (Score:5, Funny)
"We need you to wear shirts".
"We need you to shave."
"We need to be able to breathe, please take a shower".
That kind of thing?
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"We need you to wear shirts".That kind of thing?
What's wrong with wearing pants?
Re:"We need you to..." (Score:5, Funny)
They don't have a hole for your head to go through.
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Most don't have a hole for your head to go through.
FTFY
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just pull the zipper down.
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Unfortunately not, I'm Scottish. I don't usually wear a collared shirt, but I do keep one on my chair for when I need to work around clients (very rare).
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Those "We need you to..." is good for the boss to do. If he doesn't do this, then you may be on the block to be phased out, and you should be worried. The best way to get yourself on the Layoff list is to say "That's not my job". Of if you see new technologies go in, meant to replace the stuff you are working on, and your boss isn't asking you to learn it, it may mean he is trying to find a way to get rid of you.
I have seen developers in the past who figured they were untouchable because no-one can manage
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This also applies to IT as well.
I've seen PHBs go deep into "throw the baby with the bathwater" territory just to get rid of someone whom thought he or she was irreplaceable. Even though it cost far more to hire consultants to try to do what this single person was doing.
In both development, and IT, one needs to change with the times. Nothing stays the same, and just due to security issues, there is no staying with a static OS unlike the past where one could run Netware 3.x with uptimes of years.
There are
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Yes... I was going to say "every time I come to Slashdot".
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