Go to work for Google. Learn at least one new computer language. (These plans are pretty concrete at this point.)
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#22Graduate from College, Make money and Achieve.
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#23grow my company from 1 to 6 employees and have 10 times more profit.
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#24Try again and again to launch something that would be useful and popular. Failed twice this year...
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#25"Complete" my key research goals and write a draft of my dissertation.
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#26Being very close to graduate in the end of the year, run a half-marathon, try to not be a complete slacker and play with my recently purchased VPS.
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#27Existing things: MobileFolk - my current project / startup. Swim, run, workout. Keep learning Spanish and practicing guitar. Read books. New things: Learn basic Romanian. Meet more iPhone (and Android) developers in the Bay Area and in / around Toronto / GTAA - always looking to grab a beer or lunch :). Learn more about market research (you can never learn enough).
Why in God's name would you want to learn Romanian?
1. It's a silly, silly language -- I've been speaking it all of my life, and, most of the time, I still find I express myself better in English.
2. It's only spoken in a small, god-forsaken country that'll probably never amount to much of anything.
If you insist on learning another language -- it is my opinion that one should try to say something smart in one language, rather than something mediocre in a couple -- you should at least learn something that might actually prove useful -- like Chinese (if you're young and you foresee you'll still be around when they rule the world), or Russian (for more-or-less the same reason)Re: Ask HN: Plans for 2010
#28You can begin to learn to play the violin in a year, but it is a dedication of a lifetime to really learn to play the violin.
Noble causes though, I wish you much good luck!
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#29Existing things: MobileFolk - my current project / startup. Swim, run, workout. Keep learning Spanish and practicing guitar. Read books. New things: Learn basic Romanian. Meet more iPhone (and Android) developers in the Bay Area and in / around Toronto / GTAA - always looking to grab a beer or lunch :). Learn more about market research (you can never learn enough).
Why in God's name would you want to learn Romanian? 1. It's a silly, silly language -- I've been speaking it all of my life, and, most of the time, I still find I express myself better in English. 2. It's only spoken in a small, god-forsaken country that'll probably never amount to much of anything. If you insist on learning another language -- it is my opinion that one should try to say something smart in one langua…
I'd replace Russian with Spanish in that list.
Romanian is very useful though, because of its reasonably strong ties to latin. If you know Romanian then Italian, Spanish and French are more accessible.
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#30Hell yes, I finish my contract this year so I am going to regain my mind, catch up with .NET, sleep a lot, finish reading my LISP booky and I must code one thing this year that I would naturally be uncomfortable with, be it LISP, C or Ruby/Python.
Maybe start a business (if certain conditions evaluate to true)! :)