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Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Engineering in the real world is maybe 30% calculations and typical "sciency" work, the other 70% is documentation and communicating to people. >Being smart isn't enough sometimes Congratulations. You've learned two things that some people go their entire lives without understanding. And I make no hyperbole. Erik Naggum didn't learn this, and he's far from the only one. It's really something that we should put a gre…
cyanoacry just learned another viewpoint. If you work in a heavily political environment, a process heavy environment, or one in which the "calculations" are not appreciated, then yes, your viewpoint would be to put down the keyboard/slide rule and just communicate. In other environments, actual working results can silence people that are trying to "communicate" their way to success.
True. But in some contexts, communication does matter. A lot.
Some would say that it never matters at all.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#193I finally admitted that it was time to start back on antidepressants, and also discovered propranolol (anti-anxiety med); it's changed my life in the most dramatic ways I can imagine. As of today I weigh 319 lbs -- from a peak of over 400 -- and just a hair over half way to my goal of being at 240 lbs. This is the biggest change I've ever made in my life, and I couldn't be prouder to have come this far.
I'm super happy for you, both for finding a drug that works for you and for changing your life to fit your vision of yourself. Way to go.
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#194I made service that allows anyone with a domain to create their own private email server in less than 10 minutes: https://sealmail.net/
Using Postfix, Dovecot and PostgreSQL, you can read your mail securely via IMAPS on your phone and your desktop mail client. If your account gets hacked, you can just SSH into the server and reset your password yourself. No more getting locked out of your email account in an endless GMail password reset loop (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/HjW2Pj5...)
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#195I made service that allows anyone with a domain to create their own private email server in less than 10 minutes: https://sealmail.net/ Using Postfix, Dovecot and PostgreSQL, you can read your mail securely via IMAPS on your phone and your desktop mail client. If your account gets hacked, you can just SSH into the server and reset your password yourself. No more getting locked out of your email account in an endless…
Forgot the 'learn' part of it. Well here it is:
Where there's a will there's a way. I kept getting stuck at different points trying to automate things. I kept persevering because I figure anything a human can tell a machine to do, it should be able to do it by itself somehow. I managed to jump over all the roadblocks and achieve a reliable way to recreate a mail server (which is a real pain) altogether with SSL certificates included.
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#1962015 was a pretty rough year for our family. A miscarriage, several relationships ending in painful ways, etc... Our motto coming in to 2016 was "Well... it can't get any worse!". Our hubris was 'rewarded'... In February, my wife was admitted to the hospital, 25 weeks pregnant with twins, because one the babies was not getting enough blood flow through the umbilical cord. The doctors were hoping to get another week o…
Very happy that you and your family made it through all that. Have a great 2017!
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#197I made service that allows anyone with a domain to create their own private email server in less than 10 minutes: https://sealmail.net/ Using Postfix, Dovecot and PostgreSQL, you can read your mail securely via IMAPS on your phone and your desktop mail client. If your account gets hacked, you can just SSH into the server and reset your password yourself. No more getting locked out of your email account in an endless…
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Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#198I made service that allows anyone with a domain to create their own private email server in less than 10 minutes: https://sealmail.net/ Using Postfix, Dovecot and PostgreSQL, you can read your mail securely via IMAPS on your phone and your desktop mail client. If your account gets hacked, you can just SSH into the server and reset your password yourself. No more getting locked out of your email account in an endless…
This is great. Is your backend open source? Could you share more about how it compares to mailinabox? [1]
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#199Finally learning, playing, and enjoying a sport - Squash! I have successfully gone from just about 0 activity (aside from walking everywhere - NYC), to playing squash 3+ times a week. Growing up, I had never had interest (or natural ability) playing sports. Like many here, I'd prefer tooling around on computers, reading, etc. Likely, this became a self-fulfilling prophesy about "not being a sports person". Well last…
Out of curiosity, why do you prefer squash to racquetball? Im a social rball player myself, never tried squash.
Would love an answer also. Playing racquetball, I love how long the ball lives and I'm iffy about starting squash with the short volley time.
Keep it up!
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#200I finally went on the round-the-world backpacking trip I've been dreaming about since I was a kid watching National Geographic. It was surreal, hard, beautiful, smelly, and everything I ever hoped it would be.
Growing up poor and growing into a lot of family responsibility made me think it was never going to happen for me, but I made it happen, and now I feel freer even in my day-to-day life.