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Ask HN: What do you do in your free time?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you do in your free time?

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Post by noir_lord »

My free time is roughly split 50/50 into

Cycle and Swim, Read fiction, Watch documentaries and stay away from screens.

Play with cool technologies, read programming stuff and work on side projects.

I aim for a minimum of 30 minutes exercise every day either swimming, cycling or recently pilates and at least an hour and half away from a screen (not counting a kobo as a screen) usually before bed.

I burnt out badly a while back and I'm determined not to go down that route again, at first I had to force myself away from the computer but now I relish the time.

Re: Ask HN: What do you do in your free time?

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Post by mindcrime »

One of my main "free time" activities (non tech related) is bicycle riding. I do road biking, mountain biking and BMX to varying degrees. I'm also looking to start getting back into trail running with an eye towards eventually running an ultra-marathon.

Otherwise, I spend a lot of time reading, both techie / business related stuff, other non-fiction, and fiction. I read a lot of science / history stuff that isn't strictly tech (for example, I like reading about cosmology and particle physics, and WWI / WWII history).

I'll go to the occasional concert, mostly heavy metal / hard rock stuff of various sorts.

And then I'll throw on Netflix or Amazon Prime here and there and watch a movie or something now and then.

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Post by mswen »

> work out - weights and running

> write

> read fiction occasionally

> read non-fiction various topics - including HN and Reddit

> help with cooking

> transport kids

> help with homework

> visit elderly parents and help them out a bit

> read a book with my wife - rather she reads aloud to me

> participate in community of faith

> hang out with my family

> watch a bit of TV as I drift off to sleep

Re: Ask HN: What do you do in your free time?

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Post by innertracks »

Learning/teaching Argentine Tango.

I would like to use my prior experience as a pilot/flight instructor and mix it with my programming/database skills via drones somehow. The combo of machine learning, (fixed wing?) drones, and infosec have captured my attention.

CTFs are new for me and I'm enjoying stockfighter.io quite a bit.

Continuing my CS self-education in areas because they sound interesting.

Re: Ask HN: What do you do in your free time?

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Post by auxym »

I'm a (jr) mechanical engineer by day. One of my hobbies is programming. Nothing special, various small projects to either scratch an itch or learn something I was curious about, though I have contributed thingies to a few small OSS projects (ie 1-line patches for minor bugs).

Other than that, various outdoors activities. Skiing (xc, alpine, bit of touring), bicycling (incl some bike touring), general exploring.

Re: Ask HN: What do you do in your free time?

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Post by pjdorrell »

Watching Periscope. It isn't going to make me a better programmer, but I think it represents the future of something (like all TV in the future will be live, because who wants to watch recorded stuff that already happened and you can't talk to the people in the video?).
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