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

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Post by z0r »

timdellinger wrote: post #126
z0r wrote: post #90

Become a 4 dan go player. Recently ordered a lot of new problems & other study material to try to get there.

What's your present rank? I'm not devoting much time to it right now, but I'm trying to go from 10k -> 5k. (My efforts were re-invigorated when I got the iPad app from Many Faces of Go).

I've hit 3 dan before, but right now I'm probably a weak 2 dan. Life & Death is the key, so hopefully running through a thousand fresh problems will do the trick! If you do the same, you can do a lot better than 5k :)

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Post by FraaJad »

mrtron wrote: post #181
FraaJad wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I was shocked to discover how often that occurs with families, even in the north america. A friend of mine is having a difficult time convincing his parents and hers that he has found his own partner - even though they would be very suitable candidates for an arranged marriage.

The Indian parents living in NA are still carrying their "culture" from 1960s (or whenever they left India) on their backs. Parents in India, esp in Cities, are open to "love marriages", as long as you don't deviate too much in terms of caste, language, social status, educational qualification and economic status :) . Yes, all that matters.

Indians do not marry for love. Love is what happens afterwards.

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Post by mattheww »

thestoicattack wrote: post #152
mattheww wrote: post #115

I want to start a company that builds solar panels in space. Roadblocks (the ones I think are the biggest anyway): Supply Chain. Probably going to first need a way to or supplier who can mine and process materials from somewhere other than Earth. Infrastructure. Definitely going to need some sort of factory in space in which this operation can be done. Knowledge. I don't know anything about manufacturing in space. Th…

Has anybody every done (non-fictional) mining somewhere other than Earth?

I don't think so. If you count collecting samples and returning to Earth with them, there's Apollo (from the moon) and possibly Hayabusa (from an asteroid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa).

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Post by wallflower »

roel_v wrote: post #135
z0r wrote: post #62

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The math involved for basic 3d is overrated. Just sit down and copy code at first, and write reams of stuff that works. It should be no problem to magpie enough code to get a simple engine together.

Agree. Also, I liked this book: http://www.amazon.ca/Math-Primer-Graphics-Game-Development/d... a lot, even if it's quite basic and not hardcore (i.e. many applied examples rather than formulas and proofs).

Thanks all for the book recommendations!

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Post by nirmal »

stavrianos wrote: post #182
djm wrote: post #144

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I spent nov/dec 09 in thailand trying to do the digital nomad thing. I was travelling while studying though, not working for money. Few things to consider: (1) Peace and quiet costs money. You may find it difficult to work if you stay anywhere that the backpacker crowd congregates. (2) The longer you stay somewhere the cheaper it gets. An example from my experience - I spent a month in chaing mai in northern thailand…

eating what the locals eat, beware of endemics. If you're in rural India, do not drink the tea sold at road-side carts.

But once you get past the first round of stomach churning illness that food and tea is great! It's usually all I eat when I visit family in India. I haven't gotten sick from road-side food for the last 6 trips back.

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Post by alinajaf »

The Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1. It has been a personal demon of mine for the past five years and I've only recently got the confidence to say that I may one day be able to pass it. Required for post-grad study in a Japanese university or work at a Japanese company (for a foreigner at least).

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Post by sqrt17 »

araneae wrote: post #71
Rod wrote: post #52

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Why the rush? It's not like you're gonna be impotent at age 40 or something. The pressure to "do or die" in one year only is likely to jeopardize your effort... unless you date single, childless 40 year old women. But what self-respecting man would do such a thing when there are so many younger, hotter women?

carry my child If they're a woman, they're a lesbian. I'm pretty sure men can't bear children.

As common wisdom goes, children are created through an act by one male and one female human, and subsequently carry about 50% of each partner's core DNA and 100% of the female partner's mitochondrial DNA.

As a result, neither egocentrical males nor lesbians can bear children by themselves, even though artificial insemination and foster mothers may make it easy to live in the illusion that it's a possibility. (Or were you implying that the backward model of gender roles that is expressed in "carry my child" would be sure to drive any sane woman away unless the OP is a lesbian woman, because lesbian women can get away with chauvinistic opinions without raising any red flags?)

On the other hand, yes, his or her wife may be perfectly able to carry his or her existing child around if he or she is a single parent with a sore back.

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Post by XFrequentist »

clistctrl wrote: post #55

Contemplating how to ask a girlfriend of 2 years how to take it to the next step when her view has been soured by a late parental divorce.

Interesting, I'm in kind of the opposite situation:

I recently asked my very excellent girlfriend of 5 years said question. I procrastinated so long at least partially due to residual trauma from an early parental divorce (plus the subsequent decades of court battles and screaming).

My fiancee's approach was a combination of patience and understanding for 4 years, then basically telling me my time was up. The latter strategy wouldn't have worked without the former.

One thing I'm certainly glad we did is to talk about it honestly and deeply before taking the plunge. I doubt I would have been able to work up the courage to do it otherwise.

If marriage is important to you, tell her so, and give you reasons why.

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Post by kd5bjo »

timdellinger wrote: post #126
z0r wrote: post #90

Become a 4 dan go player. Recently ordered a lot of new problems & other study material to try to get there.

What's your present rank? I'm not devoting much time to it right now, but I'm trying to go from 10k -> 5k. (My efforts were re-invigorated when I got the iPad app from Many Faces of Go).

Are either of you going to be at the go congress in August?
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