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Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
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#102I'm thankful for Walter Bright and Andrei Alexanderscu, the authors of the D programming language. Although I found the language late in 2015, it showed me a new way to think about programming. I just hope D language foundation gets some corporate backing to break the inertia and exceed the critical mass.
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#103The maturity and quality of discussions on HN. It's not perfect, but far better than many other places online.
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#104I'm thankful for my parents. Growing up, I thought that my parents were needlessly strict and uncool and that all my friends had it better than me. Only once I was old enough to look at other parents from an adult perspective did I realize how...well, competent my own parents had been, compared to most. Turns out there are a lot of ways to screw up parenting. Many of my friends' parents divorced, others just quietly…
Did you get to tell them that?
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#105I am thankful that something distracted me in the few seconds it took me to start making a left turn, and slowed me down enough that the semi that ran the red light missed my car by a couple of feet instead of ripping the car apart and killing me Monday afternoon. I'm trying not to be cliche about it, but my priorities are a bit clearer now.
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#106Grateful for the money I made within the last 10 years. I was aggressively trying to get to that point years ago and now here I am. Guess what, I haven't even spent a penny of that money, turns out I'm a minimalist. All I need is the drive to do things. I am simply grateful for that drive. Money made me realized that I don't need money.
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#108Linux and f/oss, every single day. I think certain personalities are drawn to certain tools, languages, philosophies and I don't think technology today would be nearly as interesting if it were dominated by Windows. Or Apple, or IBM. We've carved a niche out for ourselves and we've done it so well, it's important we realise that and cultivate it.
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#109I'm thankful for getting cured of my chronic back pain of 10+ years just because of one HN comment (1). I was at a point in my life where my whole life used to revolve around my pain but thanks to this one comment I was cured of this terrible misery in just less than a month. So thank you HN and thank you @ceras for making my life so much better. P.S I'm happy to say that propogating that knowledge had that exact sam…
Very interesting. For about the past 2 years, I've been suffering from mysterious symptoms that seem to have no physical origin. My doctors have suggested that it's "in my head" or "stress related illness" and I'm completely open to that idea (in fact I welcome it). However, the biggest problem I've had is, "Where the heck do I go from there?" If it's all in my head, how do I get it out of my head?
I'm definitely going to give this book a read. I am thankful for your suggestion :-)
P.S. I hesitate to mention this, but my wife belongs to some weird religious group here in Japan. They believe in spiritual healing. For this kind of problem it seems really ideal. Unfortunately for me, it's completely ineffective because I just can't take it seriously. She's always frustrated because she can't heal my problems, even though I should be an ideal candidate. Going through the problems I've had has completely changed my attitude toward the potential benefits so called spiritual things. On the one hand I have doctors saying, "It's all in your head, so you can't be cured" and on the other I get "It's all in your head, so praise the divine being and all will be cured". It would be tempting if I could ever stomach that kind of thing.
Re: Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
#110I'm thankful for getting cured of my chronic back pain of 10+ years just because of one HN comment (1). I was at a point in my life where my whole life used to revolve around my pain but thanks to this one comment I was cured of this terrible misery in just less than a month. So thank you HN and thank you @ceras for making my life so much better. P.S I'm happy to say that propogating that knowledge had that exact sam…
Very interesting. For about the past 2 years, I've been suffering from mysterious symptoms that seem to have no physical origin. My doctors have suggested that it's "in my head" or "stress related illness" and I'm completely open to that idea (in fact I welcome it). However, the biggest problem I've had is, "Where the heck do I go from there?" If it's all in my head, how do I get it out of my head? I'm definitely goi…
I recommend reading what Mark Twain’s experiences with Christian Science was. (Which was that everything is imaginary?)