Ask HN: What do you keep learning and forgetting about?

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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.

drinkcocacola6 anni fa

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

st1x76 anni fa

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.

mattmanser6 anni fa

I've had the same problem since I was a teenager! I'm great at all other types of maths, pick everything up really quickly.

I've always thought it's because much of it is counter-intuitive, and so it doesn't work with my brain doing it's normal 'jump 3 steps ahead, yeah, yeah, I get it, get on with it' thing.

therm06 anni fa

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.

huhnmonster6 anni fa

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

croo6 anni fa

tar vaeqfop9xndb.. file.tar.gz

afarviral6 anni fa

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....

punchclockhero6 anni fa

FTP commands

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

neha_t6 anni fa

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