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Domains of knowledge I’ve never gotten around to learning

  • Fashion
  • Dark Arts
  • Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
  • General Relativity
  • Algebraic Topology
  • Python, Go, C++
  • JavaScript and modern Web client tech
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This entry was posted on Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 6:41 PM and is filed under Personal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the Atom feed. You can skip to the end and make a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

4 Responses to “Domains of knowledge I’ve never gotten around to learning”

  1. Robert Young Says:
    February 1st, 2013 at 8:43 PM

    Without the last two points: how do you find work? :)

  2. Elliotte Rusty Harold Says:
    February 2nd, 2013 at 5:28 AM

    It’s a fair question. The truth is for the last five years I’ve worked pretty much exclusively on the server side, aside from a bug fix here or there. There’s more than enough there to keep anyone busy for 80+ hours a week. At some point you do have to specialize.

    I am confident that if it were actually important for me to learn node.js or Angular or what have you, I could pick it up quickly. It might take somewhat longer to bring myself up to the point where I was using it efficiently and cleanly rather than hacking out code; and felt comfortable writing a best practices book on the subject.

    Plus you can still do a lot with plain vanilla HTML. :-)

  3. John Cowan Says:
    February 18th, 2013 at 5:10 PM

    It’s easy enough to learn Node.js. It’s not so easy to get, say, three years’ experience with it. (Five years’ experience is out, although I’m sure HR departments will start asking for that soon enough.)

  4. Jim Fenner Says:
    May 20th, 2013 at 6:47 AM

    I am delighted to find you are still alive and well – I had cafe au lait as one of my home pages for a decade
    Then you became invisible. I hope life is great with many more blessings than trials

    Jim
    Canberra
    No I am not coding Java I earn my living coding TSO Rexx, but I remember the great pleasure I had studying half a dozen of your books that I bought during the Great Rush

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