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Re: Ask HN: What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals?

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Post by eternalcode »

wishinghand wrote: post #16

1. Read a book a week. This is doable if i dedicate an hour a day to reading and I pick books that end up being page turners. 2. Play my electric guitar for an hour at least every other day. 3. Put $1000 a month away in my savings account. 4. Learn to implement some basic computer science algorithms in JavaScript. I don’t know how to do binary trees or hash tables and I’d like to be able to teach them at the Javascri…

For 4, I would recommend leetcode (or, others whichever suits you), and Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena.

2 activities that helped me greatly. Once you read and solve enough problems, then you will start noticing patterns while understanding their purpose.

Re: Ask HN: What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals?

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Post by wishinghand »

lunchables wrote: post #52
wishinghand wrote: post #16

1. Read a book a week. This is doable if i dedicate an hour a day to reading and I pick books that end up being page turners. 2. Play my electric guitar for an hour at least every other day. 3. Put $1000 a month away in my savings account. 4. Learn to implement some basic computer science algorithms in JavaScript. I don’t know how to do binary trees or hash tables and I’d like to be able to teach them at the Javascri…

>3. Put $1000 a month away in my savings account. I don't want to assume your financial goals but you might want to talk to a financial planner before just sticking it in a savings account. Unless this is a repository for cash you need short term and with immediate access this is the worst place to put it.

My boss just recommended a tax person to a bunch of us new hires- we're all 1099 contractors. He said basically the same thing as you. I want to start doing things like maxing out Roth and Sep IRAs, or whatever will end up making sense for my position.

Re: Ask HN: What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals?

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Post by sarreph »

lunchables wrote: post #48
sarreph wrote: post #39

Adhere to a filesystem... Right now all my files are a mess — often getting saved in random places... I know I can find them with a quick spotlight search, but it tends to bite me a bit when I need to locate a document from several months ago. That, and keeping a journal of some kind.

You should do it! I just looked at mine and I've been keeping notes since June 2007, so earlier this year was 10 years. Hard to believe. I just set a calendar reminder and each sunday I jot down a few things from the week. It really forces me to look back and reflect on the week and helps everything seem like less of a blur. I'd just write what happened at work, or health/fitness updates, what I was listening to or w…

Thank you for the inspiration :) I think the Sunday-alarm is a great idea.

I always try and do daily-notes and end up getting demotivated after missing a few days... that and all my notes ending up as a stream-of-conciousness...

Will try that system out!

Re: Ask HN: What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals?

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Post by GFischer »

gglitch wrote: post #9

This is the year I'm finally going to learn front end, just enough to prototype. Don't roast me alive, but I'm thinking of starting with jQuery. It seems much more learnable for a web stack beginner, and probably serviceable for a long time to come for someone who mainly prototypes ideas that need an elemental gui.

JQuery is great for some frontend glue, but I'd try to learn some of the new frameworks.

I tried my hand at React, it's doable, and I like it for a prototype, but I'm going to try Vue.js next because it's supposed to be much easier.

Angular is supposed to be easier for people coming from the backend.

In any case, frontend development is very frustrating (at least for me), a lot work for little gains sometimes.

Re: Ask HN: What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals?

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Post by rbonvall »

dktp wrote: post #53
rbonvall wrote: post #2

Mine is to write at least two articles per month on my blog http://mez.cl/a

Do you know you have 99/100 Google Page Speed score? Fix "Compressing http://mez.cl/a/ could save 1.4KiB (59% reduction)." and you're good. Due to a personal project I've been quite obsessed with Google Page Speed lately and this could be the 2nd website I've come across in the wild to have a 100/100. Shoutouts to https://principles.design/ being the first one.

Thanks for the tip, this is indeed something I'd be proud of :)

I decided arbitrarily to make every post self-contained inside a single HTTP request, and it's nice to see this single decision is already 99% of the job.

Re: Ask HN: What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals?

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Post by LearnerHerzog »

Kaivo wrote: post #12

I decided to note on a daily basis what I learned over the day. To commit to it, rather than being a note in a note book, I made it as a blog[1] on which I post daily. It is badly written and really incomplete but as it is mostly for myself, I have no issue with it. The ultimate goal is to see what I learned over a year so I can better appreciate the progress I made, rather than only base my retrospective on feelings…

I need something like this. Maybe I'll whip something up in rails to get a blog template started.

What did you use to set your blog up (language/framework/web-builder)? How long did it take you? It looks nice.

Re: Ask HN: What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals?

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Post by LearnerHerzog »

No...

... soda, red meat, ice cream

... alcohol/cigarettes (even though I don't drink or smoke often anyway, there is just no good reason to do them at all)

... sleeping in on weekends

... computer for first and last 60 minutes of the day

Yes:

- Meditate >10 min/day

- Exercise >5 days/wk

- Run 3-4 day/wk

- Better-learn and practice good nutrition

- Work >80 hours per week (job + take action on personal startup project)

- Write (morning): My definite goal and detailed plan as per rules of "Think and Grow Rich"

- Write (morning): Anything of importance that may come to mind (and/or possible subconscious breakthroughs from sleep)

- Write (night): What I learned/did that day

- Write (night): the next day's 3 major tasks

Re: Ask HN: What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals?

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Post by rev_bird »

darrenf wrote: post #42

I love making resolutions. • In 2014 my headline resolution was "have a pint in all 48 ceremonial counties of England" • In 2016 it was "go/be abroad at least once each month" ️ • In 2017, "be under 90kg on Dec 1st, or drink no alcohol in 2018" ️ (phew!) For 2018 it's "do something 'cultural' in every borough of London".

>"go/be abroad at least once each month"

This is such a dramatic departure from my experience as an American. I'm almost 30 and have left the country once.

Re: Ask HN: What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals?

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Post by Kaivo »

LearnerHerzog wrote: post #66
Kaivo wrote: post #12

I decided to note on a daily basis what I learned over the day. To commit to it, rather than being a note in a note book, I made it as a blog[1] on which I post daily. It is badly written and really incomplete but as it is mostly for myself, I have no issue with it. The ultimate goal is to see what I learned over a year so I can better appreciate the progress I made, rather than only base my retrospective on feelings…

I need something like this. Maybe I'll whip something up in rails to get a blog template started. What did you use to set your blog up (language/framework/web-builder)? How long did it take you? It looks nice.

It took me about an hour. I used hugo [1] with netlify [2] to publish and forestry [3] to edit, and everything is on github [4].

[1] https://gohugo.io/

[2] https://netlify.com/

[3] https://forestry.io/

[4] https://github.com/GuillaumeRochat/today-i

Re: Ask HN: What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals?

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Post by swombat »

Kaivo wrote: post #32
swombat wrote: post #24

I’ve found that committing to a single meaningful word for the year works better than resolutions. Two years ago the word was “space”. I made more room in my life for growth and change that year. This year the word was “presence”. I went on quite a personal development journey and being more present, particularly with my emotions and physical body, was definitely a strong element of that journey. For next year I’m th…

Given what I started and how I've been thinking, maybe "aware". Being aware of what's happening around me, of the thoughts I have, of the progress I make, doing the mental process of noting things rather than being passive about what's going on. Does that make sens?

Yep, definitely makes sense! I guess it’s similar in meaning to if you chose “conscious” or “present”...?
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