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

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Post by caffeine »

jpcosta wrote: post #187

Quit smoking cold turkey (was a 1 pack smoker for over 7 years). I am 3 days nicotine free and that sounds very interesting to me. Roadblocks: they keep selling them... If someone else is planning the same, the tips at whyquit.com helped me.

This may sound hokey to you, but I quit using an iPhone app called Quit Smoking Now, which is basically just a recorded set of hypnosis tapes. I listened to it one night (~1hr), threw my pack away, and never smoked again. Then there's a second "booster shot" that you listen to over the course of the next couple weeks every night (about 20 mins).

I didn't think it would work, originally, and bought it figuring that for $8, if I just skipped one pack of cigarettes it would've paid for itself. So far, I've gotten a roughly ~400x return on it (1 pack Marlboro Reds/day).

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

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eirene wrote: post #205
Rod wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Says alot about HN that this reply hasn't been downvoted more.

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

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Post by weirdwonka »

huherto wrote: post #105
weirdwonka wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

choose as much exotic race as possible with highest possible iq + looks Such as if you are White I suggest a good looking Indian girl who is pursuing PhD in CS or some such

care to explain?

The more genetically distinct your spouse is from your self the better will your kids be.

At the same time you must look out for IQ and Looks which are quite a bit genetically dependant

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

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Post by tmsh »

wallflower wrote: post #44

Learn OpenGL so I can finally make those mobile games I've always wanted to. Hangups are thinking in matrices, understanding of the math involved

One of the best intros I've seen:

http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Tab...

Also:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596804831

And then personally I've found this to be the clearest theory:

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice-...

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

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Post by huhtenberg »

dfdashh wrote: post #122
abstractbill wrote: post #110

I'm trying to figure out: (1) how much time a newborn will actually demand from me and my wife, and (2) how we will fit in all the things we have decided must continue to happen (e.g. me still having a fulltime job, both of us getting regular exercise and a bit of downtime, etc).

First of all, congrats! I have a three month old, and all I can say is that you just learn to cope. I've realized that some of my goals are going to have to slip for the time being while I care for my wonderful little girl. As for exercise, planning makes all of the difference! I bike to/from work or exercise over lunch, while my wife works out after work while I pick our daughter up from daycare (we alternate days).…

Three month old baby in a daycare? Woah.

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

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

Publish a book (like on dead trees).

The biggest roadblock for me so far is just having time to execute on it. I have friends who have published books through ORA, so I'm not too concerned about getting proper introductions to people in the tech publishing world; I just don't know if I have the time to sit down and bang out 200 pages of quality material.

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Post by jackowayed »

mrtron wrote: post #176
chollida1 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a close friend die from a crash on a moped due to him not wearing a helmet. I suggest you suck it up and wear one regardless of the heat if you either: use your head for a living, or just value your life.

That is unfortunate about your friend. Helmets seem to be all or nothing. If there is a law forcing them, 95% of people wear helmets. If there isn't, 95% of people don't wear a helmet. You would expect people to carefully consider it and make a decision on their own. For some reason people can easily rationalize not wearing a helmet in two seconds and roll with that for years.

>Helmets seem to be all or nothing

I'm not sure about that. The law in Delaware is that you must have a helmet on your motorcycle for each person on it (I guess they don't want there to be a monetary cost to wearing a helmet.), and it seems like the majority (2/3?) of people I see wear them, but definitely not all.

To some extent it comes down to culture/how aware people are. I think in America, at least half of people would wear them regardless (and in a lot of states, there's either no law requiring them, or the law only applies to new riders).

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Post by [deleted] »

jaxn wrote: post #207

I am getting married next year. we are merging two divorced families (with both have kids and this will be a Brady Bunch size family). My goal is to make it work. We are doing pre-marriage counseling, talking openly, pushing myself to grow, practicing patience and acceptance, and everything I can. It is a huge challenge, but it is completely worth it. My secondary goal is to stop working in tech and focus on my retai…

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