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Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by captaink »

foxtrot wrote: post #5

Debt Free

As someone who just managed that this year, a few pointers.

1. Budget. I know it sucks, and I know it is a hassle, still, no way around it. Grab excel or numbers or openOffice and do it start of each month.

2. Split accounts I have used this technique to great success. - 1st account is the "INCOMING" account, This is where all incoming money goes to and all fixed costs (see 1. Budget) go away from. - 2nd account is a "pocket money" account. Pocket money is transferred there. Nice about this: You can spend ALL of this and your bills and food are still paid. - 3rd account is a savings account. Not much to explain here. Make sure to save a good amount.

3. Keep at it

4. Get a seperate wallet for "food and household". I usually get a laugh about this, as it was something our parents used to do. Still, I withdraw cash beginning of the month and pay my groceries from this. Works wonders.

5. Keep at it

6. Use a big chunk from your savings account to remove all remaining debt at once.

7. Enjoy freedom.

I know people will go on about "credit history", "credit rating", etc... However, I plan to nev er go there again.

Best, ::captaink::

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by terryjsmith »

I would like to get my black belt in Taekwondo by the age of 30 (turning 23 in August) and fight at a Canadian national or Ontario provincial competition. I am currently a yellow belt (started about a year ago) but have won a gold and a silver at two recent invitational competitions.

I had an excellent teacher in Thunder Bay, but just moved to Toronto a month ago to be in a more tech savvy town (I'm a developer) and am having difficulty finding a dojang that I like and that gives attention to nurturing their lower color belts.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by [deleted] »

FraaJad wrote: post #8
jeb wrote: post #4

I'm planning to identify a suitable candidate to get married to, and who is genetically appropriate enough to give me good quality kids, then convince this person to marry me and carry my child, within the next year. Difficult, but I assume interesting.

Step 0: Get adopted by Indian parents. Step 1: sit back and relax ;)

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Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by robryan »

terryjsmith wrote: post #32

I would like to get my black belt in Taekwondo by the age of 30 (turning 23 in August) and fight at a Canadian national or Ontario provincial competition. I am currently a yellow belt (started about a year ago) but have won a gold and a silver at two recent invitational competitions. I had an excellent teacher in Thunder Bay, but just moved to Toronto a month ago to be in a more tech savvy town (I'm a developer) and…

I've considered joining Taekwondo for some time but worry that the lower belts will be to caught up in teaching very basic moves and the traditional aspects of the sport.

I understand the need to learn the basics just wondering if you found this time a drag at all or it was all interesting and I'd have nothing to worry about?

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by felideon »

thestoicattack wrote: post #22
felideon wrote: post #12

To do research in natural language processing. Roadblocks: * Time. Or if time = money then I need money to be able to spend time on this. Also, in itself this wouldn't bring in much income I don't think. * No CS background. Don't know where to start.

What part of NLP? It's actually a pretty wide field.

Not exactly sure, but after skimming through Wikipedia, natural language generation sounds pretty interesting. But text-to-speech and speech recognition is probably what I've had in mind.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by ronnier »

lionhearted wrote: post #2

I'm going to design my first article of clothing for myself next month. I'm going to Vietnam, and I'll do it in either Saigon, Hanoi, or Ho An. I'll be in the first two cities anyways, I might go to third just for its reputation as a tailor and fashion city. I've got a shirt I used to like a lot that's worn out, going to have a tailor use it as a model to make another. Going to get two shirts made. Depending on how t…

I visited Vietnam three times over a 3 year period. Is it your first time?

Since my last visit, laws have changed that require you to wear a helmet while on a moped. One of the things I enjoyed the most was the freedom in riding a moped around a huge crowded city for hours, not knowing where I was going, or where I'd end up. It's somewhat ruined now with the helmet law. Nearly 100 degree weather wearing a helmet isn't so fun.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by wallflower »

mattm wrote: post #25

Become one of the world's top salsa dancers by 2020. Current roadblock is that I'm just not doing it enough. I get distracted by other interests of mine. I was previously practising 3 times a week (which probably still isn't enough) but lately I'm only going once a week.

That's an admirable goal. Why do you want to be that good? Do you want to be a professional? By definition, a professional dancer is one who can teach, perform, and social dance.

Please read this article by the Unlikely Salsero:

http://www.unlikelysalsero.com/2007/08/magic-of-time-last-on...

The whole idea of going from canned set routines to dancing to the music is a bit of difficult hack that I'm still working on (but making progress). The hack for that I think is understand the structure of the song - (real-time Fourier analysis of a set of eight measures of 8-beats each..with your feet)

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by felideon »

ananthrk wrote: post #33

Becoming a better programmer. Roadblocks: Lack of self-discipline and commitment (day job providing good money)

Maybe you've seen this from being on HN, but www.structuredprocrastination.com. Try to get busy with "important" things, and you'll find yourself programming more.

One thing I'm starting to do, since I also have a day job, is going to the library for my lunch break (I eat lunch real fast right before I go) which is luckily a few blocks away, with and laptop loaded with Ubuntu to force myself to do some more lisping.

Once I get in the habit I'll be able to work on harder challenges and hopefully become a better programmer.

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