HACKER Q&A
📣 gtirloni

What do you keep learning and forgetting about?


What do you keep learning and forgetting about?


  👤 the_only_law Accepted Answer ✓
Just about anything I've tried to learn in the past 5 years. I get really excited about a project, start reading,, planning, learning it inevitably stalls for a dumb reason, I rapidly lose interest, and the later get excited again but have to go bacl and remember everything. Repeat.

👤 drinkcocacola
Objective-C Block syntax. That made me a heavy user of http://fuckingblocksyntax.com

👤 st1x7
Probability theory. Multiple books/courses/videos and I still have problems with recalling basic formulas or solving fairly easy problems. I find it weird because I don't have the same problem with other branches of math.

👤 therm0
Everything. Most of my work is touch and go, and I'm constantly having to switch contexts and technologies. I just try to bookmark what I think is important and take notes when necessary.

👤 huhnmonster
Calculus. The basics and ways of thinking stick quite well, but specific execution of some algorithms escape my head as soon as I don't use them anymore. I guess that's just the way learning at uni works though

👤 croo
tar vaeqfop9xndb.. file.tar.gz

👤 afarviral
ln -s target linkname or was it the other way round? Grrrr. ln --help.

Also; tenses e.g. simple present...

Also I always forget to stay on top of the chores and get up when my alarm goes off....


👤 punchclockhero
FTP commands

At one point I just gave up and started using Filezilla.


👤 neha_t
that first things should be done first, but ...