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Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?

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Post by jacques_chester »

I wrote this answer to a similar question a few months ago:

"I'm not dead" probably ranks highly. I am sometimes cast into a tournament against a patient, relentless salesman for death. The problem is, he knows everything about me. Everything. Every thought, every recollection, every secret shame, every regret. Everyone I've ever hurt, how I hurt them, how I let them down, how I failed them.

And he can, in a moment of pain, turn all of those into an impulse that I have to remind myself is just a feeling and even while I do that he's whispering "is it?".

Most of the time I am OK. But I know that I my emotions can just overwhelm me so suddenly and completely that it scares me. I am still learning how to live with me.

He'll probably make his sale in the end.

But I'm alive.

Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?

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Post by maneesh »

After years of R&D, heartache, and rough decisions --- I finally turned my hardware company (http://pavlok.com) profitable! We make technology to break bad habits, wake up earlier, and reduce cravings.

I decided to try to build a hardware company without raising VC --- which is probably one of the hardest decisions you can make. And required about 30 people to make a reality.

But now that we have finally got our manufacturing and supply chain working, I've been building our sales & marketing team --- and I can't wait to see how 2017 progresses :)

Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?

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Post by Lerc »

Honestly, Making it to the end. 2016 had been a rough year all round for people as well as for me personally.

Technically speaking I learned a few things, like Ray marching and distance field stuff, but nothing much I can point to and say "I did that."

I'm still here though, I made a few friends, I made and drunk some cider.

If I am on a good enough footing to make 2017 better, I'll take that.

Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?

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Post by garymoon »

It was an accomplishment for me but then it became a frustration. I always hated mathematics but I always loved programming, making appls but cool things like algorithms design, data structures are the base of real cool things e.g. programming languages, RDBMS, artificial intelligence, etc. are all mathematics So I enrolled to Mathematics on my local university just to see how it was and I fell in love, I never saw so much perfection with just paper and pencil. I loved calculus it was really funny solving problems, making proofs, etc. I got good scores the first half of the year and I really wanted to continue but then frustration began, the need of money, so I started working and I couldn't go to lectures anymore. Of course I try to keep reading books and solving some excercies but help from professors or extra tips they used to gave us is what I really miss.

Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?

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Post by NicoJuicy »

Had the 2nd largest Pokémon Go group in Belgium and did paid events with it in theme parks ( we were the first ones that did it)

Launched my first webshop ( which is actually quite fun) in a niche ( 500 € / month profits), which is nice.

Otherwhise, work overload made me quite agitated on the end of the year. But i'll get through it.

Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?

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Post by agumonkey »

- Finally cracking the partition function (with a tiny bitsy hint tbh) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(number_theory)#Part...

- Understanding prolog/non determinism.

ps: I hope you all can enjoy prolog extreme beauty and concision one day if not the case already. It's not at all perfect but so tiny yet so grand.

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