Make music and ride my bike around Tokyo.. same as any weekend, just more of it.
Ask HN: If you had a month of free time, what would you do?
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Re: Ask HN: If you had a month of free time, what would you do?
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm calling Bullshit. "Not really sure what you mean by free time". Give me a break, you understand the question just fine. The worst part is that you didn't contribute to the question at all. Why did you comment?
I think a lot of people have setup their lives such that they don’t feel they need a break, or free time or an escape. They don’t put off those things that the rest of us do. Maybe the commenter you replied to falls into that category.
A lot of people is a stretch I think. I would be surprised if it was was 1% of humanity. And that is probably even a snapshot: when you get older, attitude might change.
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#63There are a ton of subjects I'd love to read up on that are more interesting than the classes I am taking now, so I would likely pour a significant amount of time into studying.
Other than that, I would unwind. I want to visit a few museums and restaurants, maybe meet new people.
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#64Funnily enough I will be taking a month's holiday shortly. I will be swimming in an open air pool, diving some wrecks, eating some great food, reading, climbing some volcanoes, relaxing and luuurvin'...
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#65I have a day off a week, entirely to myself. I negotiated it with my work (a very large $CORP) in exchange for 20% of remuneration. I end up tinkering with the things I'm interested in, and roaming London, going to places I've never been to in 40 years. It can be incredibly productive. I even published a book as a result: https://leanpub.com/learnbashthehardway What I have found 'hard' is doing nothing. I find walkin…
Just curious is it a very large $TECH_CORP?
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#66https://youtu.be/HG-VClgOUCY
This is what I would do! I have plenty of time right now to make more videos! You guys can send some topics my way and I can make up a new video for you!!
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#67I was expecting a lot of ambitious projects would be mentioned, but it seems as if a lot of HN wants the same as me. I would Unplug. Take the kids camping, explore a national park for a couple weeks and let nature do it's thing. Take the guitar, leave the tablet. Try to catch some fish, which I have never done. Read a couple books that have been put off for too long. Maybe some Heinlein or Asimovs foundation series (…
Hey, if you want to do the fishing thing, it doesn't take a month or a national park. Just thought I'd chime in with a simple recipe that will catch you fish about 99 days out of 100: Buy a "cane pole" (they sell non-bamboo versions these days). Tie on a hook, bobber, etc. Get some live bait--you can usually buy worms where you buy your fishing pole. Ask the guy who sells you your pole a good place to fish, if you do…
I put off going fishing for months after I bought my pole because my 'recipe' wasn't simple enough. Now I try to MVP my hobbies. I keep a pole in the trunk, hit the gas station that sells worms, and drive up to a small reservoir. It's not the perfect serene fishing scene we picture in our heads, but it is a lifesaver.
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#68I would search for nice enumerations of graphs, hash functions, types and functions. I doubt I would make any progress in a month or perhaps ever. 1. Find a nice numbering system for graphs. (Rooted trees already have a nice numbering system called Matula numbers. I rediscovered this independently but haven’t made any progress on graphs.) 2. I want to label every possible hash function with an integer. 3. I want to l…
> 3. I want to label every possible type(that can be expressed in a programming language) with an integer.
Let me know if you manage to do this, the serialization application for this is boss.
Re: Ask HN: If you had a month of free time, what would you do?
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, if you want to do the fishing thing, it doesn't take a month or a national park. Just thought I'd chime in with a simple recipe that will catch you fish about 99 days out of 100: Buy a "cane pole" (they sell non-bamboo versions these days). Tie on a hook, bobber, etc. Get some live bait--you can usually buy worms where you buy your fishing pole. Ask the guy who sells you your pole a good place to fish, if you do…
I put off going fishing for months after I bought my pole because my 'recipe' wasn't simple enough. Now I try to MVP my hobbies. I keep a pole in the trunk, hit the gas station that sells worms, and drive up to a small reservoir. It's not the perfect serene fishing scene we picture in our heads, but it is a lifesaver.
Sometimes I think it is perfect. Hard to beat a sunny day on the side of the lake, with a snack and maybe a kid, if you like 'em.
There's many other perfect situations, too, like the cover of a river runs through it.