Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by littleblah » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:39 PM UTC

Thanks for asking this question :)

Couple of them for me

1. Professionally: Moving to an awesome core tech team (chance to work with internals of a database)

2. Personally: Wrote a blog post which received very high attention here on HN... shameless plug (sorry):

https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-check...

3. Health wise: Successfully used internmittent fasting to lose 8KG, and then maintain it for 9 months straight.

4. Finally, if all goes well, a baby on the way in our family!

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by grumpy8 » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:39 PM UTC

Reached 2500 in overwatch, been hard stuck around 1900 for a few seasons

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by aantix » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:40 PM UTC

Getting https://baseline.red up and running. A simpler, alternative APM for Rails apps.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by fillskills » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:42 PM UTC

Assembled a great team to work on Climate Change. Got lucky that most of them are friends and were super interested in the concept

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by merlinsbrain » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:43 PM UTC

zhdc1 wrote: post #19

First user for an API I recently went live with. Pushed out an app today that makes it significantly easier to do a part of my job. Two academic papers in the pipeline.

Are you in school or publishing while in the industry? Always wondered how to do the latter without a PhD and working with a Big N in their research org.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by chooseaname » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:45 PM UTC

I intermittent fasted twice this week. Thanks for asking!

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by mav3rick » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:49 PM UTC

littleblah wrote: post #21

Thanks for asking this question :) Couple of them for me 1. Professionally: Moving to an awesome core tech team (chance to work with internals of a database) 2. Personally: Wrote a blog post which received very high attention here on HN... shameless plug (sorry): https://littleblah.com/post/2019-09-01-senior-engineer-check... 3. Health wise: Successfully used internmittent fasting to lose 8KG, and then maintain it fo…

Congratulations ! Really motivating.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by dshanahan » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:50 PM UTC

I just passed 100 consecutive days of workouts! At least a one mile run or 20 minute Peloton ride every day. Lower impact days allow for 'active rest'.

Was a tough start, too, with a calf sprain almost right away, on Day 5. Even managed to fit in workouts on international travel days!

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by outime » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:50 PM UTC

I finally found a somewhat cure for my long-time shoulder pain which also helped to develop costochondritis. After several medical tests and lots of hours invested into researching the problem myself (as doctors just provided NSAIDs and PT didn't help much) I was able to be almost pain free after such long time.

Physical illnesses, even if only mildly disabling, do affect your day-to-day mood very negatively.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

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Post by stevenmays » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 4:52 PM UTC

outime wrote: post #29

I finally found a somewhat cure for my long-time shoulder pain which also helped to develop costochondritis. After several medical tests and lots of hours invested into researching the problem myself (as doctors just provided NSAIDs and PT didn't help much) I was able to be almost pain free after such long time. Physical illnesses, even if only mildly disabling, do affect your day-to-day mood very negatively.

What'd you do? The only thing that seems to help me is hanging on a pullup bar for intervals of a minute or so. A hang a day keeps the pain away. =)