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

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Post by Rod »

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.

If you want to hear pretty lies, go watch Sex and the City. It's well known that 40 year old women are almost infertile. And their pregnancies tend to be riskier. I didn't make the rules, so don't shoot the messenger.

Show me a man starting a family with a 40 year old, and I will show you a man without options.

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Post by jackowayed »

cousin_it wrote: post #233

I presume you're asking about goals not dreams? Here's the stuff I've been working on lately: 1. Fixing my motivation problem. No, not that kind :-) After a lot of self-analysis I discovered I'm motivated by my desire to be "the best", and this isn't a good thing because I tend to become a little better than the #2 guy and then stop, contented. Mozart or Microsoft didn't become what they are by trying to beat the #2…

1: just find someone else to compare yourself to. Even if there's no one better than you at your job/in your group of friends/whatever, there definitely are people better than you.

4: You're probably trying to make it too perfect before you launch. Pick a date that seems a little too close, and resolve to submit it to HN by that date no matter what. If you end up pushing half of those "finishing bits" to after launch, whatever. It's quite possible that no one on HN will say that it should have one of those finishing bits, which probably means you can cross it off the list.

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

JayNeely wrote: post #256
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #247

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.

Try joining NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month): http://nanowrimo.org It's a world-wide one-month novel writing sprint, meant to solve the "one day" novel problem ("One day, I'll write a novel"). Though the focus is on novel writing, there's nothing to stop you from working on a non-fiction book. The in-person write-ins, online community available for short word-count sprints, and other community-momentum / enco…

great suggestion. thanks!

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

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Post by singular »

Develop a programming language which allows you to easily write inline grammars then use them and mutate them at compile- and run-time. Additionally have a nice (default) syntax, nice support for concurrency (I'm thinking something similar to goroutines), and actually try to make the language reasonably popular (the most insane of my goals).

Roadblocks: Myself, more than anything. So hard to work on something a. so big, and b. in spare time when I so often feel like chilling out!

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Post by frossie »

pchristensen wrote: post #136
felideon wrote: post #47

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Do you know all the tips & techniques there are? We've just been going through this with our 2-yr-old for the past 8 months and wouldn't mind sharing what I've learned. But, I think the best thing we did that actually worked---which we always had been reluctant to trying---was to leave him running around the house butt-naked. The whole apartment has carpet. Fun times.

My favorite tip for potty training two year olds is to wait until they are 3.

Otherwise known as "No kid has ever gone to their prom in diapers." It'll happen.

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Post by GVRV »

beenthere wrote: post #276
plinkplonk wrote: post #254

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Thank You. All help/advice appreciated. It is the middle of the night here (India). So I'll probably reply when I wake up.

I am Indian (student) as well! I did my undergrad in chemical engineering and had 8 K.T.s yet I could mange to get wait listed at MIT Media Lab (my group didn't take anyone that year due to lack of funds). Currently I am at Cornell.

Masters or PhD?

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Post by barmstrong »

MarkPNeyer wrote: post #11
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.

My Advice: 1) Accept the person that you are, and learn to love that person. If you don't accept who you are and love yourself, others will have a hard time following suit. 2) Do the things you love. In doing so, you're likely to meet others who share the same interests. 3) Stop worrying about whether you'll ever find someone. When you do this, you project a sense of desperation, and others can pick up on this.

Great advice, and totally agree.

On a more practical level, try OkCupid.com. Seriously, I've been so impressed with that site. If match.com is like myspace, okcupid.com is like facebook. High quality, smart people. The girls actually write you back. I'm averaging about 2 dates a month from OkCupid right now.

Also, the site is just a well designed and fun web app, so I can appreciate it on that level.

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Post by overdrivetg »

jackowayed wrote: post #204

I'm not sure that it's my most interesting, but I want to someday make robotic fireflies. I'm about to leave the East Coast to go to Stanford, and I don't want to live in a firefly-free world. I thought about trying to import them and have them breed, but apparently most species like humidity and standing water, which the Bay Area isn't too long on. I'm also not sure if they could find stuff to eat out West. So robot…

...another logical solution could be breeding/genetic engineering a strain that would enjoy the environment out here. That would be a fun project, actually =)

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Post by GVRV »

robryan wrote: post #41

My goal should probably be to finish off my last uni semester coming up as well as possible but much more interested in my startup at the moment. Another aspect I guess is to get more involved in the Melbourne startup/ coworking community, only had limited contact thus far in what seems to be quiet a large and vibrant scene.

Hey mate, I'm a final semester student doing CompSci at Monash. The melbourne startup scene is awesome! Definitely a lot of experienced and inspirational figures who're willing to give back to community. Would be awesome to catch up in person sometime.
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