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

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

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Post by wladimir » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:14 AM UTC

DOS/Windows => Linux

CDs/DVDs => Downloading/Streaming

Perl/PHP => Python

Harddisk => SSD

SVN/CVS => GIT/Mercurial

Academia => Business

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

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Post by barrydahlberg » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:19 AM UTC

Stable salaried jobs -> Contracting, business, chaos.

It suits me better.

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

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Post by bfung » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:20 AM UTC

make this into a site, akin to threewords.me?

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

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Post by base » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:22 AM UTC

PHP > Ruby

Prototype > Jquery

SVN/CVS > Mercurial

Eclipse > Netbeans

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

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Post by arethuza » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:29 AM UTC

Academia -> Real World

Drive to work -> Walk to work

Prepared food -> Cook from basic ingredients

Radio 1 -> Radio 4

Java -> Anything else

Expensive SUV -> Sensible economical car

Paper books only -> Kindle & Audible

Being a bigot about particular operating system and languages -> Not really caring anymore (apart from Java)

[Edit: The thing about Java is more today with my own, in retrospect, slightly embarrassing "advocacy" of the language in the period '95 to '00 - rather than the issues the language has as the new Cobol].

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

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Post by jkahn » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:36 AM UTC

New Zealand => Australia

Windows => Mac

Spinning rust => SSD

Of course, there are tons of technology changes that have been great. The things that have made a huge impact in my life are:

Pure techie => Learning sales

Employee => Business owner

Sales is all psychology. It totally changes your view of the world. It's not about how things should be, but about how things are regardless. A business degree didn't teach anything that mattered about that.

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

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Post by mise » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:44 AM UTC

TamDenholm wrote: post #19

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 elec…

I'm with you on the > gEdit (well, I use Scribes instead). You need an editor that gets out of your way.

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

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Post by kaka189 » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:52 AM UTC

Windows - > Linux , Large Company -> startup , somemail -> gmail , orkut -> facebook :)

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

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Post by robfitz » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:52 AM UTC

Working at home --> working at cafes Video games --> hobby projects Following my natural social inclinations --> going out most days Developer --> Developer who can do sales & biz

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

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Post by petewailes » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:55 AM UTC

CDs/DVDs/BluRay/Consoles etc... => Spotify/HTPC + serious GFX

Parkour => taekwondo

Monitor(s) => Very large Samsung TV

Notepad++ => Sublime Text

Walking => running

TV => competitive gaming

No 3 item todo list => 3 item todo list

Single project focus => multiple open-ended projects

Books => Kindle