Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year? • Hacker News Board

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by ghoward » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

I'm only going to talk about my programming goals.

1. Get my licenses [1] looked over by a lawyer. Maybe I'll do a GoFundMe since there seems to be some interest in them, and I can't budget the money for over a year. Or maybe I'll wait.

2. Get my build system to a releasable state (including the best documentation ever) and help FOSS projects switch if they want to, especially from Autotools-based builds.

3. Get my programming language to a releasable state.

4. Use my language to help people understand the benefits of structured concurrency. [2]

5. Build a standard library for my language that is based around structured concurrency.

[1]: https://yzena.com/licenses/

[2]: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/12/structured-concurrency-defin...

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by don-code » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:37 PM UTC

I'm looking to recover from two years of pandemic-induced silence.

In the years prior, I was a pretty active member of several communities, to the point where I could be attending several a week. Many of these have disbanded entirely; some briefly moved online before collapsing due to lack of involvement. I haven't given a meetup or conference talk since early 2020.

There are other, larger communities that have managed to stay afloat (disclaimer: I help organize one of them, DevOpsDays Boston), but their barriers to entry are much higher - formal CFPs and vetting versus Slack pings to meetup organizers. So my plan is to realize that's not an excuse, and act accordingly.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by longtrousers » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:40 PM UTC

I am going to exercise from jan 1st through jan 14th and I am also going to slowly get lose both my gluten- and lactose intolerance through very precise understanding of my consciousness through mindfulness.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by germinalphrase » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

debaserab2 wrote: post #130

germinalphrase wrote: post #80

I currently teach high school English. There is a great deal about the job that feeds my soul, but my engagement with the work has shifted markedly over the last few years and is starting to impact my happiness, my optimism for life, and my ability to be the husband and father I know I am. I believe it’s time to do something else. Several conversations with tech folks lead me to believe that I would do very well in U…

I don't know that there is anything special about Prime over other reputable bootcamps. It might be easier to get a job in the agency world (since I know Prime has a lot of tie-ins to the industry) - which is fairly infamous for paying below market wages for entry level positions. I've personally never noticed a difference in candidate quality based on whether they did Prime or any other bootcamp.

Thank you for the insight. Any recommendations on how to gauge company reputations on the local level without having many industry connections? Are orgs like UXPA-MN worth a damn?

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by 0xcafecafe » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

drodil wrote: post #103

0xcafecafe wrote: post #96

We're about to have our second kid in spring so that is the biggest thing to look forward to. In prep for that, planning to switch out our sedan for a minivan (due to 2 carseats). Apart from that, try to keep learning. Pickup something new I didn't know, last year it was chess, this year haven't picked anything yet (maybe swimming).

Congrats!

Thanks!

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by Tolexx » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

Happy new year!! Everyone.

I want to finally get my first job as a developer. I have been trying to transition into tech for the past two years. I have been teaching general and advanced mathematics in high schools here in Nigeria. My goal will be to finally land a programming job in 2022.

Anyone hiring or any senior looking to take a valuable junior under his belt I'm open to working, learning and adding great value. My email is in my profile. I look forward to hearing from anyone.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by scollet » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

phtrivier wrote: post #125

lvl100 wrote: post #69

Help save the world from total destruction.

Any specific first step in mind ?

Time machine

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by dont__panic » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

My career is at the point where I make enough money to comfortably buy anything (non-crazy expensive) I'll ever want to buy. Except a house, of course -- it would be obscene to afford a decent one of those in a major US city. I hate living in major cities anyway, and covid has made it essentially impossible to build a friend group in a new city.

So my plan is to move closer to family, but into a walkable small town where I can establish a community, volunteer, and really set down some roots. I plan to de-emphasize work when possible to grow more into my hobbies: espresso, bike touring, and reading. Hopefully push one of the novels floating around in my head into a full-blown book, or at least a solid start on one. Life is too short to spend all of your effort on work in a city that you only live in because of work.

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by MissionInfl » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

aserdf wrote: post #122

nomadiccoder wrote: post #108

I recently read Atomic Habits by James Clear, and also listened to some process philosophy from Steven West's Philosophize This. One takeaway that I had was on the danger of setting goals. I am trying to build a mindset of 'becoming' or to embrace the journey of the goal rather than really trying to achieve a specific milestone. - I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption to become a person that doesn't rely…

> I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption... same here. each year it just takes more and more out of me physically/mentally, this year really seemed to emphasize that. looking for 6 months here and then will re-evaluate. in the past breaking a sweat when the urge/opportunity arises has been pretty effective.

To provide an alternate solution to the one already mentioned, I used a modern medicine approach to alcohol use disorder called The Sinclair Method. The tl;dr is that you continue to drink using an opioid antagonist (usually Naltrexone) which blocks the endorphins rewards from consuming alcohol and eventually you just stop caring about it.

For more information, see https://www.reddit.com/r/Alcoholism_Medication/, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EghiY_s2ts, or https://www.dropbox.com/s/60fs7gmvbyzs1kk/Cure%20for%20Alcoh... (warning: large pdf)

Re: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

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Post by sidcool » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

My aim is doing a digital detox, letting go the FOMO of knowing everything current. Letting go HN and Reddit and YT videos. Letting myself be bored and not driven and ambitious all the time.