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Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by balaji1 »

msie wrote: post #9

Sometimes I think this concept is depressing because it increases the pressure to "do something" with your life. When you are presented with the finiteness of your life you feel pressure to fill each moment/cell with something "meaningful" or "worthwhile". When someone is enjoying a hobby they will lose track of time yet that hobby may be frivolous in the eyes of someone else. Do they want something like this to trac…

it is depressing to some, others in a different stage of life might experience gratitude, others hope and clarity, etc. in all aspects of the human condition, there's probably a similar dynamic to the 5 stages of grieving.

tho I agree the popular notion is to > fill each moment/cell with something "meaningful" or "worthwhile".

and I would add, there is pressure to achieve something "unique"

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by rubicon33 »

palemoonale wrote: post #30
rubicon33 wrote: post #24

This is a visualization of how I have been feeling for the last couple of years. I'm in my mid 30s and lately have been going through what I'm sure is a mid life crisis. Seeing all these empty cells really underscores the point. - Aware of my limited time - Aware of my limited health (despite exercising, eating healthy, avoiding alcohol and drugs, sleeping well, etc... I don't feel like I did in my 20s) - Difficulty…

Do little exercising, eat what is on your mind, do alcohol and drugs, try to still sleep well after having fun partying, etc... life is too short to restrain yourself. Splurge on things you never did, will bring some fresh breath and newfound hunger for life.

I definitely think there's some truth to this, and I would benefit from some kind of unwinding. I'm just not sure yet what it is. Drugs and alcohol tend to make me feel worse the next day(s).

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by culi »

samstave wrote: post #16
culi wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

glad to hear it's just a freaky coincidence!

Except.... now you've just shared your birthday through the browser openly with this website.... Defeating the premise of your concern.

well not really. People being able to find my info is very different from my browser directly telling advertisers and sites I visit my bday

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by shepherdjerred »

samstave wrote: post #16
culi wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

glad to hear it's just a freaky coincidence!

Except.... now you've just shared your birthday through the browser openly with this website.... Defeating the premise of your concern.

There's a big difference between others simply knowing your birthday because you told them vs others knowing your birthday in some unknown way. How do they know that? What else do they know about me?

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by wepple »

msie wrote: post #9

Sometimes I think this concept is depressing because it increases the pressure to "do something" with your life. When you are presented with the finiteness of your life you feel pressure to fill each moment/cell with something "meaningful" or "worthwhile". When someone is enjoying a hobby they will lose track of time yet that hobby may be frivolous in the eyes of someone else. Do they want something like this to trac…

But if you get to decide what is “meaningful”, it’s just a reminder of the finiteness of life.

I’ve spent a bunch of this holiday sitting on the couch, relaxing or letting my mind wander or just enjoying being near a warm fire. I don’t think I’ll regret that at the end of my life (provided my life isn’t all sitting on a couch)

I’d argue if you feel pressured to do “meaningful” things that apparently don’t bring you joy, you’re just miscalibrated about meaning of your life?

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by marssaxman »

seized wrote: post #3

One suggestion.... Make it faster to skip back and set the start date, or allow manual entry. I'm not even that old but it's a lot of months to click backwards on Android.

I couldn't make the date picker work at all - the scroller kept snapping back to a previous position.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

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Post by marssaxman »

kvakvs wrote: post #21
diimdeep wrote: post #6

Date picker is broken, also it is really slow webpage for what it is doing. Every web developer in 2024 and forwartd should have average device released at least 10 years ago to understand that what they are writing these deys using this horrendous web frameworks is unusable on these devices.

As you click the date picker, it updates entire page for that incomplete date, and it QUEUES dates for more update, even if you manage to click the correct year, it continues slowly through every year you touched/scrolled before that.

There's something even more broken about it than that, though; I couldn't get the date to go any earlier than 1991, because the scroller would keep resetting itself back to 1993. Don't understand it.

Re: Show HN: Weeks of Your Life

#40

Post by apwell23 »

palemoonale wrote: post #30
rubicon33 wrote: post #24

This is a visualization of how I have been feeling for the last couple of years. I'm in my mid 30s and lately have been going through what I'm sure is a mid life crisis. Seeing all these empty cells really underscores the point. - Aware of my limited time - Aware of my limited health (despite exercising, eating healthy, avoiding alcohol and drugs, sleeping well, etc... I don't feel like I did in my 20s) - Difficulty…

Do little exercising, eat what is on your mind, do alcohol and drugs, try to still sleep well after having fun partying, etc... life is too short to restrain yourself. Splurge on things you never did, will bring some fresh breath and newfound hunger for life.

alchol and eating fried food ( what is on my mind) give me intense heartburn.

Another perk of getting old ;)

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