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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> and now no TV licence fee Nope, if you're watching TV programs on your computers or smartphones (iPlayer) you still have to pay UK TV licence.

Nope, only if you're watching live (as it's being broadcast) TV.

My bad, didn't knew that.

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

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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…

Could you elaborate on IDE > gEdit? I'm really curious here, especially what PL's are you mainly using and what kind of projects are you working on. Also do you use and plugins with gEdit? As an emacs user and lisp programmer I can imagine ditching some of the features, but there are also some I couldn't live without (like paredit and repl integration).

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

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Living far away from work => Living within biking distance (Best decision of 2010)

Desktop computer => Laptops

TV => No TV (Best decision of ~2003)

Studying human stuff => Studying IT stuff (Best decision of 2009)

In my studies: Focus on academia => Focus on real world problems

Taking myself seriously => Not taking myself seriously

Living in multiple countries => Living in Denmark (the country I grew up in)

gEdit => Vim

multiple folders, commented out code, etc => Git + github

Facebook => Github, Twitter, Hacker news, meetups, etc

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

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Federal Government Contracting => Startup/Commercial Freelancing (US Government couldn't care less about spending tax dollars well...)

Living next door to the 'rents (for help with wife's health care) => Living 150 miles away

Java => Ruby (and almost any language, including JVM languages, other than Java)

PC => Mac (huge +1)

Friends who don't respect my life choices => Friends met through the Ruby community

HDD => SSD

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

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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

What is the best way for someone to get into parkour ?

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

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Husband => No husband Affluenza => Spartanism Car => No car Probably a whole lot of other things. Somewhere in there all that led to: Chronically Ill => Not Chronically Ill. Definitely don't plan to go back.

Chronically Ill => Not Chronically Ill How did you achieve that?

Got rid of the husband, everything I ever owned, and my car. And also took a boatload of supplements, did a lot of reading about my medical condition, changed my diet, and a whole lot of other stuff.

Some info on what I did is here: http://healthgazelle.com/

Not much info, mind you. I'm too busy getting my life back to spend much time on the site.

Peace.

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

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Sitting => Standing Desk: The effect this has had on my productivity is surprisingly large.

Typical "Healthy" Diet => No Processed Foods or Sugar: It's hard to disambiguate placebo effects, but I generally feel pretty awesome.

Laptop Screen => Cinema Display: This has definitely enhanced my productivity.

Shoes => No Shoes: Of course I need to wear shoes occasionally, but when I do, they are "minimalist" and have flexible soles. On everything else I default to barefoot, including when I go for a run. This has been great for my posture, and it's made me seemingly immune to most common running injuries.

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