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$ cat .profile | grep export export GIT_AUTHOR="Florian Gilcher" export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]" export GITHUB_NICK="skade" export APP_NET_NICK="skade" export GITHUB_ORGANIZATIONS="asquera,padrino" export TWITTER_NICK="@argorak" export TM_COMPANY="Asquera GmbH"

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http://asquera.de

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“How did you learn all this?”

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How do accomplished programmers foster their learning environment?

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I decided to pass the question around.

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How do you learn?

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Whats your favourite trick?

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Learning is a skill like any other.

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It can be learned.

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“I believe consistent, regular and hard work is a sure way to become better at a skill.” – Michal Taszycki, http://programmingworkout.com

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Learning by doing.

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Get into a habit!

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-- clear the table DELETE * FROM table;

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How much time does it take you to get back to a learning project from last week?

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Anything above 1 minute is too much.

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No need for an elaborate system.

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Only one that works.

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# purely for reading # and compiling src/ # things I actually work on Code/

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After every major update, I make sure that everything compiles and works.

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vagrant, ruby, java, Haskell Platform, TexLive, erlang, postgres VMs, Riak VMs, CouchDB VMs...

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Setup time drags you down.

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Find ways to make that possible for all kinds of things.

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Be your own favourite ops guy.

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“Its like going to the gym: I never go in the evening if I didn’t pack my things the day before.”

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Now that we’re time-efficient, we still need the time.

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Work and learning effort are completely different beasts, don’t mix them.

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Work: time constraints, deadlines, product goals.

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Learning: freeform, failure as default mode, no pressure.

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Work-Life Balance

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Work-

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Work-Learn-

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Work-Learn-Pastime Balance

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Don’t allow anyone to control that balance.

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“Learn the stuff you need for work at home.” –A former boss

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Now that work is ruled out, where to look next?

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“I got more conscious about how I consume media.”

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“I started skipping things aggressively.”

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Media consumption

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Information epidemic?

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TV, YouTube, Hacker News, Twitter, yourfavouriteblog

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Get used to writing off things.

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Game boring? Skip! TV show bad? Switch of the TV!

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Don’t switch it on without knowing whats running in the first place.

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The essence of focus is to do everything very consciously.

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Superchargers

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I. Vocabulary

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“I read a lot of literature, but skip implementing for a while.”

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It allows you to digest new material or read code.

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It allows you to talk to people actually working on the described things.

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Knowing your vocabs allows you to think about them.

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It breaks your personal filter bubble.

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II. A taste for quality

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“Even when just messing around, I strictly apply all best practices I know.”

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class Fuck def args 'bla' end end

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class MyClass def foo 'bar' end end

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“I don’t care, its just demo code.” – sadly, another former boss

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If your code is messy, your brain is messy.

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Keeping your code clean will get easier and easier with every time.

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Its easier to show to other people and helps you communicate with peers

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III. Learning Hydra

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“I usually learn many things in parallel.”

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Always have tasks of different interests and difficulty levels around.

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Enlightment can strike at random.

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“Free” time is learning time!

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IV. Take huge strides

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“When I want to learn a new technology, I always set an ambitious goal: the problems popping up along the way are part of the exercise.”

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You get exposed to unpredicted problems.

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GOOD!

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Only planning small steps can make you wander off in the wrong direction.

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V. Go nuts!

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Build the mad things! For fun and no profit at all!

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Can JRuby be embedded into JRuby?

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Hell, yes!

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It might yield a system where you have 2 different classes called “Object”...

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... but you learn a lot about JRuby internals.

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VI. Pass your knowledge along

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“I’ve always helping others with my skills.”

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Explaining to others exposes flaws in your own thinking.

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You haven’t understood what you cannot explain.

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Start answering questions on mailing lists, boards, twitter, stackoverflow.

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But do it in a proper, detailed way.

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VII.

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Every once in a while...

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Disconnect your ethernet cable

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Disconnect your ethernet cable Disconnect your Wifi

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Disconnect your ethernet cable Disconnect your Wifi Turn your phone in flight mode

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VII. Go offline

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It forces you to work with what you have.

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It forces you to find solutions for what you don’t have by yourself.

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Google == Training Wheels

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Google is a great helper, but you should work without helpers once in a while.

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Dodging the Meteor?

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In 5 or 10 years, none of us will program like today.

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I come from planet LAMP...

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...which is now mostly empty.

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What will hit Planet Ruby/Rails?

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Haskell?

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Clojure? Scala?

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Be on the lookout!

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Constant learning is the only thing that keeps you from becoming a dinosaur.

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Google == Training Wheels

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Big thanks to: @paulca, @aq, @johnashenfelter, @brennandunn, @ernestomiguez, @myabc, @febeling, @catimogen, @zebel, @Xylakant, @mmack, @bascht, @wikimatze, @cypher, @mehowte

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