Hacker School - week #1 recap
10 Oct 2014It’s been almost a week since I came to New York to join HackerSchool, a quick recap:
Week of [2014-10-06]–[2014-10-10]
- Crista Lopes was the resident during this week and she talked about
her Exercises in Programming Styles book during the first days.
I’m not even halfway through the book yet, though I have to say that
the book has already left a mark.
Crista then went on to concisely explain theoretical concepts around types, data structures, and even monads in Haskell.
I also shared a bit about Org Babel, which may have to do something to do with the following tweet:
Note to self: set this up in my emacs and learn more about it http://t.co/HIaegQ5bHp
— Crista Lopes (@cristalopes) October 8, 2014 - Right now I’m working through the exercises here (of course, in Org mode). I named it Exercises in Org to keep the scope open to other exercises, though focusing on the programming styles book at this moment.
- I took a bit of time to revamp my blog yet again. This time using
Hyde as the the theme and the
org/,src/folder structure that I have been practicing lately. Repo at wallyqs/org-hyde. - Another great thing of being in NYC is the amount of meetups that there are. I assisted to the Mesos NYC meetup at the Twitter offices to hear about the practical usage of Aurora and Mesos, as presented by Bill Farner. In the following weeks I will be diving more into Mesos, so this was a good opportunity to ask directly to those who operate regarding its practical usage.
- Living in NYC related:
- Got my Airbnbs setup until the beginnings of December.
- Discovered Gasoline Alley Coffee which is just around the corner of HackerSchool.
- Overall, having a great time. The social rules being applied (no feigning, no subtleisms, …) make up for an comfortable environment of collaboration which I had not experienced before, at least definitely not on this level.