Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by Jommi » Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 4:03 PM UTC

jpdb wrote: post #97

Be more social. I've lost touch with a lot of people over the past 5-6 years. I've jumped jobs, built up my career, moved locations, got married, had 2 kids, and I'm just naturally a home-body. One thing I've neglected is building and maintaining friendships. Whether it just be going to a dinner party every week or so or just making plans with people that aren't my wife+kids, I should get out more. I also really want…

Still looking for that app/service that helps me stay connected with older friends in regular intervals WHILE ALSO being privacy centric and not leaking my entire social life to a corporation.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by selleck » Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 4:17 PM UTC

1. Continue to lose weight - i've lost 10 pounds the past month, would like to lose 30 more.

2. Work through PentesterLab Pro - past couple times I would get halfway through the first badge and just stop. This time I am pairing it with Anki cards.

3. Continue getting 7-8 hours sleep, been doing this since I read 'Why We Sleep'

4. Learn Ruby/Rails build a handful of applications.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by jason_slack » Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 4:31 PM UTC

sridca wrote: post #91

jason_slack wrote: post #76

1. continue learning Chinese (4+ years already) 2. get a new quant job 3. improve my marriage. It's been awesome for 12 years now. 4. continue taking time to read each day but vary my subject matter even more.

Why Chinese?

I work/ed for companies that have a high percentage of Chinese employees. It was easier to learn Chinese than translate everything back and forth.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by bdavisx » Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 4:41 PM UTC

ryanmercer wrote: post #79

Hopefully find different employment (with hopefully better pay and room for advancement) but based on all the rejections this year (between a previous bankruptcy and no degree I'm effectively an undesirable) I don't hold much hope. Last year I had one company hire me, never once ask about my financial history, then terminate me while I was asleep the night of my first day of work after they discovered my bankruptcy (…

I hope you have left a Glassdoor review for them.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by RickJWagner » Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 4:44 PM UTC

Do more cardio.

Align with BogleHead philosophy.

Use less stuff.

Learn more Go and Kubernetes.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by Strom » Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 4:55 PM UTC

sridca wrote: post #89

emdowling wrote: post #37

8 hours of sleep per night. That’s it. If I can nail this, everything else will fall into place. I’ll naturally drink less alcohol and eat better. In the last few months, I’ve experimented (via Apple Watch) with the impact that alcohol and diet has on sleep. The book Why We Sleep, combined with habit theory, has had the greatest influence on this decision.

Where did this "8 hours" figure come from? I find it funny that people want to get this mysterious 8 hours of sleep while here I'm wanting to sleep less (I routinely get 9-10 hours or even more every night despite drinking coffee 2-3 times).

It's about getting 5 REM-NREM cycles of sleep. [1][2] The exact time varies from person to person and situation to situation, but roughly speaking the cycle takes 90 minutes and 5 * 90 min = 7.5 hours. Add some minutes lying in bed but not yet asleep, and you've got the 8 hours.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_cycle

[2] http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/science/what/sle...

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by ryanmercer » Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 5:13 PM UTC

bdavisx wrote: post #104

ryanmercer wrote: post #79

Hopefully find different employment (with hopefully better pay and room for advancement) but based on all the rejections this year (between a previous bankruptcy and no degree I'm effectively an undesirable) I don't hold much hope. Last year I had one company hire me, never once ask about my financial history, then terminate me while I was asleep the night of my first day of work after they discovered my bankruptcy (…

I hope you have left a Glassdoor review for them.

If I ever leave I plan to but even if I was fairly vague, there aren't a lot of people that have been here as long as I have. If I mentioned most of the stuff that's progressively gotten worse it would put me on a list of maybe 8 people that had been here that long and only 3 of us in my position.

Griping without directly mentioning them is one thing, complaining on something specifically linked to them is another.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by alphagrep12345 » Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 6:01 PM UTC

I am completely clueless and confused.

I’m 23 yr old working in a dead end job at Oracle. Each day of my work just makes me feel more drained and irrelevant. I’m unable to change company because of visa (I’m on l1). I am split between changing the team or leaving USA for London/India for good.

Leaving USA is a risky career proposition - which also pulls me towards doing a masters so that I can stay in US few more years and work on OPT without restrictions. However my friends who are currently pursuing masters are not getting jobs easily, which makes me wonder again. All these worries never give me enough time to pursue my dream of enterprenuership and starting up something seriously.

So many considerations, so many thoughts and a very confusing year ahead for me.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by ckrusk » Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 6:10 PM UTC

jason_slack wrote: post #76

1. continue learning Chinese (4+ years already) 2. get a new quant job 3. improve my marriage. It's been awesome for 12 years now. 4. continue taking time to read each day but vary my subject matter even more.

How have you been learning Chinese? I am adding learning how to read/speak Mandarin to my 2019 list.

Re: Ask HN: What’s your plan in 2019?

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Post by karnivol » Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 6:11 PM UTC

msaharia wrote: post #77

2018 has been a lean year for me. Even though career-wise, I am doing alright, I am a little depressed about not being able to achieve certain things I thought I would by the time I am 30 [I'm 31]. I don't know why I am writing here as I am usually private about my feelings on this topic. Perhaps because none of my friends/colleagues in my social circle would come across this post. My greatest regret right now is bei…

Dude kudos for giving back to your education system and to your community. I wish more people felt like that where I am form. I wish to do the same after school and currently I see a good momentum at my school, but I fear bureaucracy and system will not only hugely slow things down but even stop. I wish you all the best in the following year.