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Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by lotsofpulp »

Raz2 wrote: post #177
lotsofpulp wrote: post #174

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Buying a used car is not always "better" than a new one. It depends on how much your time is worth, and what utility you get out of your vehicle. For example, if you live with a family and 1 person does not NEED a car, then they can be passed the oldest car, and when it's ready to junk, you buy a brand new one where you don't have to worry about the history of the car. Rinse, repeat, you will maximize the value obtai…

Why whoud you pass a car to a person who doesn't need a car?

I meant need in the sense that it's mission critical, for their work pretty much. But suppose it's for retired grandparents, or a stay at home parent then it's not needed, but it is useful.

Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by 97s »

Turn off the TV. Turn off all social media. Turn off any negative influences. Eat as healthy as you possibly can. Exercise, yoga, tai chi, or anything that gets you moving. Enjoy the benefits of all the time you thought you didn't have while having really good mental power because of your healthy diet and exercise. Live a good life.

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Post by dzek69 »

deathanatos wrote: post #55

* It doesn't matter what you set your desired location to in LinkedIn. Recruiters are going to look at what you've done in the past, and assume you want more of that.

Not true. I've written I'd like to learn Python someday, and I got an offer to bacame team leader of Python dev team.

Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by [deleted] »

Raz2 wrote: post #177
lotsofpulp wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buying a used car is not always "better" than a new one. It depends on how much your time is worth, and what utility you get out of your vehicle. For example, if you live with a family and 1 person does not NEED a car, then they can be passed the oldest car, and when it's ready to junk, you buy a brand new one where you don't have to worry about the history of the car. Rinse, repeat, you will maximize the value obtai…

Why whoud you pass a car to a person who doesn't need a car?

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Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by Double_a_92 »

LawnDart1 wrote: post #175
aloukissas wrote: post #89

Ideas are cheap, execution is everything. Product-market fit is hard. Keeping razor focus is harder. Excercise, good sleep, and healthy food pay big dividends. Don't bother disagreeing with people on social media. Finally: I can build way more things than I thought I could 12 months ago.

"Don't bother disagreeing with people on social media." You should put that on a tee-shirt, or maybe a billboard.

Why not? Some of their arguments might change your view for the better, and vice versa.

Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by mseebach »

oldcynic wrote: post #112
pleasecalllater wrote: post #98

Life is short, so work on things that matter. People you love can be gone tomorrow. You too - so prepare for that. You don't make friends at job, you will be fired as soon as they notice you have some family problems influencing your work. There will be no talking, no asking anything... and then your "friends" will silently agree with everything the manager does. Read more - it really helps with anything you will do.…

> You don't make friends at job The more general variation on this theme is : "Most of your friends aren't". They're drinking buddies, folks to talk to at $event and $hobby_club If shit meets fan most of them will disappear. There will be a few who turn out to be real friends. A few in each group will surprise you greatly.

It's easy to be cynical, but it's important to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Of course you can make friends at work, but no, they're not going to be the kind of friends whose shoulders you can cry on when a relationship goes south, but if you can have a discussion about non-work matters, if you could imagine having them over for a backyard barbecue, "friend" still seems like a reasonable term. Even calling them "fairweather friends" seems derogatory. They're not super close friends, for sure, but nothing wrong with "friend".

For sure, this kind of semantic puritanism seems like a great way to convince yourself that you're an unlikeable person with no friends.

Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by cheschire »

gargravarr wrote: post #154
theyinwhy wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not sure the goal was to swap gardening with engineering gardening automation ;)

For every problem, there is an engineering solution. The inverse is not necessarily true :)

Don't tell SharePoint developers that.

Re: Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

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Post by _b8r0 »

A few days ago last year, my heart imploded. We still don't know what caused it. We don't know if it'll come back (I've had a shitty couple of months recently with the same symptoms but they went away at the end of last week), and I had major knee problems at the same time.

Still working on improving my health, but coming to terms with this being a part of life rather than something I'll get over completely.

If anything, the last 12 months has taught me that your health is the one thing you can't replace. Enjoy living while you can, because when your health's gone, it's gone.

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