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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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mkramlich wrote: post #18

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 veg…

> hard shell reinforced briefcase

Do you have a link to what you have? What were the benefits to the change (particularly from laptop backpack)?

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

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…

It looks like you're saying "Windows is greater [for me] than Linux" but I suspect you were miscopying the OP's use of "=>"?

    > => =>

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

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Post by bromley »

Multiple big projects on the go at once -> Dedicated effort to finish one before getting too distracted by the next

Valuing money more than time -> Valuing time more than money

Trusting only logical reasoning -> Trusting my gut instinct as well

Thinking it's wrong to turn down opportunities -> Happy to turn down opportunities if they don't appeal much or I've got too much on my plate already

Running all email through my own mail-server -> fastmail.fm

Keeping my email client open all day -> Opening it only every hour or two so I can focus on real work

Cleaning teeth straight after food -> Waiting 30 minutes or more first, to reduce enamel erosion

White rice -> Brown rice (~5 times the fibre)

Cooking rice in a saucepan -> Using a rice cooker

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

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Post by edanm »

follower wrote: post #59
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?

Hockey. I've been playing basketball every week for years, but it's not a very high-intensity game (with my group, at least!).

But I haven't played Hockey since I was 15, mostly because I didn't know where (Hockey is not very popular in Israel). But I finally found a group that plays, and joined them and had a very draining, but amazingly fun time playing. I've missed it.

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

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Post by niels_olson »

thibaut_barrere wrote: post #50

Navy officer => Startup => Freelancing/Bootstrapping PC => Mac Paris => Small village No kid => kid

Were you in the French Navy? My neighbors were the French exchange officers and their wives (two couples, serially), while I was on staff at Annapolis. If so, I'll dig up their last names (I can only remember first names right now).

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

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dclaysmith wrote: post #16

US => Ireland .NET => php/python 1 monitor => 2 monitors Car => No Car

As somebody who is in the UK, looking to spend some time in the US working/living and then grow old in Ireland your "upgrade" from US to Ireland interests me. What made you move?

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

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Post by gommm »

* Working in a big R&D company in japan => Working for a small company in Japan => Working as a freelancer => Starting my own company (It's very exiting and a bit stressful, but working in japan is a good preparation for how to deal with stress and long hours)

* Windows => Debian => Gentoo => Mac at home, Gentoo on servers (I tried ubuntu on servers but I always end up having to compile and install from source too much stuff)

* HDD => SDD (Amazing the different it makes)

* Paperbooks => ereader (used to use a pocketbook 360 which was really great but it was stolen :-( currently looking for a new one)

* Backup on dvds => Tarsnap

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