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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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Post by TamDenholm »

rednum wrote: post #42
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…

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).

I'm a web developer, i write php, html, css, js mainly. So IDE's are totally unnecessary. I have a development server i connect to via sftp and edit on that, i use dropbox as my source control since 99% of the time i'm a single developer and it stops me having to remember to check anything in. It also makes deployment to live pretty easy too.

I dont use any external plugins or anything, everything i use comes out the box with gEdit, the file browser side pane, highlighting, indenting and thats about it. I imagine its a lot easier from a web dev's perspective than from actual programmers.

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

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Post by kaiwen1 »

Drinking whenever => No drinking => Drinking two days per month

Drinking too much sucked. Drinking not at all sucked. Drinking two days a month lets me enjoy my wine/beer/sake and whacks me with the occasional hangover to remind why I opted for this damn policy in the first place. It is drinking in perfect balance.

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

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Post by agentultra »

vim => emacs layered window manager => tiled window manager mouse => no mouse no wife => wife music career => programming career inactive => active

Best thing I did for my health was to get a bike and get into sports. The first thing I got into was martial arts. Now I rock climb, run, and cycle. Nothing gets the brain going like a good work out. I never look back.

Emacs was a big paradigm shift that took many months too.

Update: thought of a couple other things...

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

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Post by follower »

jkahn wrote: post #26

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 any…

> New Zealand => Australia

From where in NZ did you leave and where in Oz did you end up? What were the improvements you found? Do you think you would've found them moving to some country other than Australia?

Curious. :)

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

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Post by D0rkvsMaximvs »

sharadgopal wrote: post #45
petewailes wrote: post #30

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 ?

Find a second-story window and jump out of it. If, in the next hour, you aren't in the hospital or morgue, CONGRATULATIONS!!! you're now into Parkour!.

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

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Post by follower »

edanm wrote: post #14

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)

> started playing a new sport I love

What was the sport?

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