Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by ijustwanttovote » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 6:56 PM UTC

nikivi wrote: post #11

Most recent success and one that is ongoing is my focus and actual following through on completing my 12 daily habits. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/habits It includes core things like sleeping for 8 hours, exercising, eating wholefood plant based diet, drinking water, tea, focusing on one task at a time and setting and following through goals. As for goals, I am genuinely in love with my Focus board I mad…

I don't know how I bumped into your knowledge base, but it's been cool to see. I've been stealing a few things here and there.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by jamesb93 » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

rblion wrote: post #41

Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods. Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work. Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone. Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore. Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great. Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time. Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just refe…

What is deep work?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 7:03 PM UTC

neha_t wrote: post #16

Lots of past failures under the belt, but I just started tasting success today only! My simple word game "Word Hookup" is showing on the US app store's Today page, in the "5 New Games We Love" category. Until last week I had a handful of downloads, and the number is now increasing exponentially. Loving it :) https://www.wordhookup.com

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Post by tlb » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 7:03 PM UTC

jamesb93 wrote: post #62

rblion wrote: post #41

Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods. Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work. Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone. Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore. Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great. Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time. Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just refe…

What is deep work?

See http://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/

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Post by pickle-wizard » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 7:10 PM UTC

Last weekend I set a deadlift personal best of 405lbs. I am pretty happy as I was stuck at 385 for the longest time.

My next goal is to drop 45 lbs and get to a deadlift of 500, so that I can lift twice my weight.

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Post by chasd00 » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 7:10 PM UTC

1. My 9 year old is on track for his first ever straight A report card. 2. My wife rejoined the workforce after being a stay-at-home mom and feels supported. 3. I survived yet another Dallas, Texas Summer

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Post by chasd00 » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 7:12 PM UTC

hnruss wrote: post #48

My wife and I recently paid off all of our credit cards and started saving up for a house. We started trying to pay off our credit cards about 4 years ago, so it feels like a big accomplishment.

it's a huge accomplishment, congratulations

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Post by wilsonnb3 » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 7:13 PM UTC

grumpy8 wrote: post #22

Reached 2500 in overwatch, been hard stuck around 1900 for a few seasons

I was going to post the same thing! Just peeked over 2500 on tanks last night, hoping to the same for DPS soon.

I'm still down around 1900 on support, though.

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Post by ryanklee » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 7:16 PM UTC

Self-taught, second profession, 38-years old, after just 1.5 years into my SWE career, lots of hard, deliberate work in an uncharted CI/CD space, and I've landed a role as a Site Reliability Engineer for a major player in the health insurance data domain.

105k base salary, typical benefits package, in a medium-COL US region. This puts me well-ahead of what I thought were already pretty aggressive goals I had set for myself.

The team I'm going to be working with looks like an excellent group of people, pleasant, hard-working, with an engineering-oriented mindset. I'll be working with a great set of technologies/infrastructure, applying interesting, useful techniques, and at a non-trivial scale.

I'm pretty excited to be doing what I'm doing and making good money doing it. Big change from 2 years ago, where I was not excited to be doing what I was doing, and making not great money doing it.

Quit drinking. Go to the gym. It can work wonders.

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Post by willismichael » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 7:26 PM UTC

BookPage wrote: post #50

willismichael wrote: post #15

I started a very niche open source pet project to scratch an itch (I'm a musician that uses Linux, and I wanted a decent Linux native hall-style reverb plugin). Somebody from halfway around the world jumped in and built a GUI for it. Now a small handful of people from around the world rave about how much they love it. https://github.com/michaelwillis/dragonfly-reverb

Cool project! I have a couple of questions: 1. Do you do your production in Linux? If so what hardware interfaces and DAW are you finding works for you? 2. Did you have audio programming experience before starting this project? I really want to learn more about audio signal processing but am not sure where to start. Thanks!

1. I'm using a first-gen Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 and Ardour.

2. I didn't have any experience with DSP programming before this project. I mostly just wrapped an existing library, but I'm getting more comfortable with the idea of delving more into the algorithms now.

If you're interested in trying something, a colleague and I are considering modernizing Rakarrack (an aging guitar effects bundle), you could jump in before we get started developing it. Here's our fledgling github repo:

https://github.com/rkrv2/rkrv2

Edit: Also check out the forum at https://linuxmusicians.com if you want to discuss Linux audio/music production.