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Oh, you will feel much better once you have mastered:

1. Programming chips in binary, machine code, and C. You need a variety of chips. Try to learn at least 5 from each manufacturer.

2. Learn at least 37 Javascript frameworks, as evenly divided between front-end and server side as you can. (Good news: angular 1 and 2 count as 2 frameworks).

3. Learn Scala, Rust, Haskell, C, C#, Java. (Python and Ruby go without saying).

4. Learn R, machine learning, statistics (prob and regressions), linear algebra and multi-variate calculus.

5. Learn growth hacking (edit:) and lean startup, human centered design, and design thinking.

6. Learn accounting, finance (go through Markowitz, to Black Scholes, Fama, CAPM, and factor models. Read the original papers only and implement everything yourself, in 2 languages).

Now you are ready to read HN.

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Hardly. You still need:

1. An in depth understanding of Physics, History, Literature, and Philosophy. You can just make up whatever you want in Economics, Sociology, and Bitcoins as fits your political leanings.

2. Learn to resist weapons grade grammar analysis.

3. Learn to recognize sarcasm in short, written text.

> 3. Learn to recognize sarcasm in short, written text.

No need. This is HN. Someone's bound to have used machine learning to crack this already.

Duh, haven't you read "Automatic Sarcasm Detection: A Survey" by Joshi, Bhattacharyya and Carman?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03426

And for a second there I thought that you just made that up :-)

What we need now is a text-to-speech engine programmed with The Mary Whitehouse Experience's "Man With A Sarcastic Tone Of Voice".

And Chinese or Japanese, especially characters; the argument of material design is much better replaced by everyone learning Chinese characters and just using that. HN is happy to contribute its wisdom to all fields.

You forgot entrepreneurial skills. Obviously at the top of that list should be the ability to raise funds from VCs.

Small quibble: fundraising is not an entrepreneurial skill. It's a substitute for lacking those skills.

If a business is solid, no funding is needed. Or, if it is needed, it's easy to get.

To be an entrepreneur is to raise funds. I thought this was accepted as absolute truth in Silicon Valley.

I must respectfully disagree.

Forming or becoming a capitalist organization using Other People's Money is a perfectly valid approach for an entrepreneur to take, and if so whether funds should be raised from VC's or other sources is the kind of uncertian decision that entrepreneurs have to rise to, yes.

But it's also possible to be a complete entrepreneur by using only your own resources whether that is primarily funds or not. You may or may not need to choose a low-resource-requirement business to operate. You may also survive or prosper in a capitalist environment and/or compete in a capitalist market without being a capitalist at all.

At least since recorded history anyway.

IMHO the top of the list for entrepreneurial skills should be the ability to develop the best income from the most satisfied clientele.

So true.

You're right. I edited the growth hacking line a little.

I don't know if I can recommend "learning" to raise from VCs but you're right they should practice all aspects of launching and running a company a few times by doing it.

I don't normally downvote good jokes like this one, but I'm making an exception. Imagine if this rises to top (it's #2 now), and either the OP or someone in the same situation see it first, and fail to notice the irony.

Never thought of that. Phew, close call. You might have saved them.

You also need to read at least one 1000 page fiction book per week and be on some version of the "paleo" diet.

You've forgotten advanced knowledge in neural networks, molecular biology and (for some reason) medieval books.

I've done all this but still don't know why I keep getting asked why manhole covers are round!! Pls help?

Just say "you look at the manhole covers and ask 'why'; I look at the same covers and ask 'why not'"

That's the secret answer at McKinsey.

A concise and useful list of suggestions.

you still need your pet theory for the evergreen topics: diets, state surveillance, healthcare (US) and education (US)

You are being sarcastic, right?

Not at all, in fact the OP was being generous. Where's computer vision and cryptography on that list?

37? Only?

I don't want it to be overwhelming.

You simply skipped 3 great, must-have, state-of-art frameworks released this week.

Angular is a thing of the past. You need to be using OrbitalJS, or Conker. Sabre is also gaining a lot of traction

I actually made all those up and nobody called me out on it

Perhaps you are not acquainted with the severe name shortage that currently threatens the Javascript community?

https://github.com/orbitaljs

https://www.npmjs.com/package/conker

https://www.programmableweb.com/library/sabre-dev-studio-nod...

You are fucking kidding me. I literally opened a dictionary for those

Yet one more reason to not get overwhelmed here.:-)

add network, linux kernel debugging, also containers.

Haha, are you serious? Or just joking?

He was totally joking - sarcasm.

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