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Ask HN: What are the changes you made in your life and never look back?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the changes you made in your life and never look back?

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hboon wrote: post #4

PC -> Mac Over-the-counter banking -> Internet banking Feature phone -> Smartphone Mouse with no wheel -> One with wheel (and currently Magic mouse) Own hosted email/Yahoo -> Gmail (or Google Apps for Business) Dock at the bottom (both Windows and Mac) -> Dock on the left Unmanaged music collection -> iTunes No specific editor -> MacVim

> Dock at the bottom (both Windows and Mac) -> Dock on the left

Yeah, I did that quite a while ago and have found it great on my laptop but I've just started using a 1900x1200 monitor and am starting to think about switching back.

Re: Ask HN: What are the changes you made in your life and never look back?

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follower wrote: post #11
hboon wrote: post #4

PC -> Mac Over-the-counter banking -> Internet banking Feature phone -> Smartphone Mouse with no wheel -> One with wheel (and currently Magic mouse) Own hosted email/Yahoo -> Gmail (or Google Apps for Business) Dock at the bottom (both Windows and Mac) -> Dock on the left Unmanaged music collection -> iTunes No specific editor -> MacVim

> Dock at the bottom (both Windows and Mac) -> Dock on the left Yeah, I did that quite a while ago and have found it great on my laptop but I've just started using a 1900x1200 monitor and am starting to think about switching back.

I hardly use the Dock since there are utilities like Spotlight/AlfredApp/LaunchBar/Quicksilver, so I auto-hide it. I'm using an external 1440x900 side-by-side with my built-in 1440x900, but if I even get a tall enough built-in LCD, I'd still leave the Dock on the left. There's never enough vertical space for code for most programming languages.

I guess laptop-only -> laptop + external mon counts too.

Re: Ask HN: What are the changes you made in your life and never look back?

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Post by edanm »

Random off the top of my head:

No backup/storage => Dropbox 50gb (paid) Same password on every site => Keepass (Also an incredible thing)

No serious exercise => Starting to exercise (gym, started playing a new sport I love, etc.)

Old phone => Smartphone (iPhone 4)

Re: Ask HN: What are the changes you made in your life and never look back?

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Post by mkramlich »

landline => mobile

blah clamshell cellphone => iPhone

PC/Windows => Mac/OSX

Java => Python

The Man's corporate cubicle => home office => my business office

9-to-5 salary grind => my own schedule, ROWE, contracting/consulting

used cars => new 2010 Hyundai

backpack 4 laptop => padded laptop bag => hard shell reinforced briefcase

SVN => git

laptop's boot filesystem on magnetic platter hard drive => SSD

TV for visual vegging => the Web

living on the 70th floor => living on ground floor

sharing walls & ceilings with neighbors/drummers/blind-elephants => not

Re: Ask HN: What are the changes you made in your life and never look back?

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Post by TamDenholm » 

  Windows > Linux
  CD-R backups > Dropbox
  Two monitors > One 30" Dell Monitor (Best purchase ever btw)
  Pirating Music > Spotify (I even pay a subscription)
  TV > Youtube, BBC iPlayer, other steaming services (and now no TV licence fee)
  Crap diet > Learning to cook
  Paperwork > iPad
  IDE > gEdit
  Landline > Mobile
I'm sure there are others. One thing i'd love to do is live totally off the grid, reuse water, generate own electricity, grow own food, live in middle of no where. The only thing i cant figure out how to do is a decent net connection...
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