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Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by netjiro »

surfsvammel wrote: post #232

I usually tell people that I am passionate about technology. I don’t know if that is true anymore. Ever since the pandemic hit, something has changed. I used to be passionate about wave surfing. That was all that I could think of. Now, I have not been in the water since my first kid was born six years ago. I need to change that. I need to go surfing again. Oh. And hello from Sweden, by the way. I’m very much a real p…

potential bullshit warning [1]:

Parents who take time for themselves and don't _just_ live for their kids tend to end up happier and with better relationships with their children as they grow up.

[1] I don't have children of my own, so wtf do I know. But: My lifestyle, spending a lot of time practically living with my friends and their families, allows me to get a fairly deep insight into a large set of varied families over the last 20y.

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Post by andai »

rakejake wrote: post #192
tomcam wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad you were able to move back and muster up some interest in life again. I have the IQ and demeanor of a Labrador and somehow never lost my interest in tech 40 years after I started. Who knows, maybe your journey will lead you out of it now that you’re safely back home.

Perhaps, but I don't see myself FIREing and then spending my life gardening or something. I would like to have a sustained, organic interest in something (may not be software, but definitely something in the scitech). That is my goal and for that, I needed to take some "time off" and cultivate some discipline.

Being able to do what you're interested in is the whole point of FIRE!

Re: Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

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Post by nekobrain »

zenkat wrote: post #214
krat0sprakhar wrote: post #178

Thank you for posting this! Excellent idea. Currently, I'm passionate about nailing pinch harmonics on the guitar. I've been struggling to get the right sound but I'm looking forward to the day I can do that so that I can cover so many amazing songs that use it! Also, spending some time learning about docker extensions and thinking of some ideas of what kind of extension I can make :)

What is the trick for making them work? I tried a few times and gave up -- just couldn't get even close enough to iterate & improve.

The tip of your pick should be really close to the tip of your thumb, that's the main point for me.

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Post by jcpst »

Subsentient wrote: post #26

Sometimes, I think about what I really want. What I want most in the universe, for myself. There's plenty I want for everyone else. I seldom let myself think about what would be good for me lately. Sometimes, like tonight, I do know what I want for myself. It's impossible, but it's my greatest desire for my life. I want to be "uplifted". I want my brain capacity to be expanded by orders of magnitude. I want to unders…

Sounds like psychedelics might help.

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

Aak was meant to be Ask, I guess.

I loved the "real but currently text based (human) being", made me smile, while I type my answer in this little text box!

I am a software/tech guy, but I've been always super passionate about the future of cities, and have spent too much time thinking and making projects related to how the "city of the future" would and should look like - of course, made in a way that would allow us to be more environmentally friendly. Now it seems a given, but ~30 years ago no one gave a shit, and I was already super interested in the environment.

At some point I founded a company to try to build something along these lines; my efforts failed, the company survived but I left after ~2 years.

Maybe one day I'll stop working on what I'm doing now (VC) and give it another try :)

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Post by frans »

blinding-streak wrote: post #45

Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…

May I suggest the book "This Naked Mind" by Annie Grace? I learned about it here on HN [1]. I have no alcohol issues, but there are some eye-opening ideas in that book that should appeal to everyone (unless you already are on zero alcohol)

"Alcohol is the only drug on earth you have to justify not taking."

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32714527

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Post by hYqnLX »

Reading all the comments on this post made me very happy. I am from Kolkata, India and am finishing up my CSE degree in a few months. I took CS because of my interest in computers and the job prospects of a CS degree. I don't know how to say it but even though I like tech and programming, but I am not sure if I want to do it for a living for the rest of my life. Maybe it has not much to do with programming at all, but mainly with the sense of wonder and anxiety of what the future holds and if it really is my true calling.

Lately, I have been giving in more time to my exploratory side. I am reading books on philosophy and religion. If you want book recommendations, I would suggest books of Herman Hesse. Also, after being raised in a rational and atheistic surrounding, I have realized that ancient philosophers and sages philosophized more 'higher questions' about life, it's meaning, death and what comes after, etc than I thought. They passed on their knowledge to the next generations through religious texts. If you want suggestions on religious books, I would suggest starting with the Bhagavad Geeta.

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Post by coolperson42 »

I've always been passionate about tech and recently, I discovered that helping others get software engineering jobs is something really special.

For the last 2 years I have been running an free intense online bootcamp (12+ hours a day/ 7 days a week) where I help people study leetcode and system design for free. With my students, I am basically a human pomodoro and helicopter parent that you love to hate.

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Post by tomcam »

miloignis wrote: post #217
tomcam wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love your attitude—-both submitting early, and learning from submitting too early. Mind giving us f-expression virgins a note or two on why they’re awesome?

I can try, though as the night wears on my brain gets fuzzier... Basically, f-expressions unify macros and functions. This combined thing is called a "combiner". It works by being different from a macro/function in two main ways: 1) It has a "wrap level" that encodes how many times arguments to this combiner should be evaluated when it is called and 2) it has an extra parameter that receives the dynamic calling envir…

That was an excellent explanation and I am now looking over the staggeringly huge thesis. Thank you.
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