Something that happened over a small span of time that totally changed the trajectory of your life?
Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
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#2Applied to FANG for an internship and 5 years later I'm still there.
I'd call it life-changing as I can FIRE around 40 now (current trajectory). Planning to care for my siblings however, so realistically it's more like 45-50.
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#3surviving a mass shooting
The conversation surrounding such events and lack of political or social will to change left me jaded with Americana, ultimately I left the country and decided to contribute to a more sane society.
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#4Many of them. A heart attack followed by open heart surgery on the day the coronavirus was officially declared a pandemic was one of them. Having the parent company of my online music store fail was another.
You can always find these moments in your life, but usually in retrospect.
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#5surviving a mass shooting The conversation surrounding such events and lack of political or social will to change left me jaded with Americana, ultimately I left the country and decided to contribute to a more sane society.
Me too. I wasn't at the October First shooting in Vegas, but I was not far away and I helped take food and stuff to first responders and hospital staff in the trauma ward after. Watching people call that a "false flag" was contemptible.
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#6Your question is so broad that I'm not sure that you will yield any satisfying answer.
But yes, many times. The problem is that some of the most profound and lasting changes come from trauma that requires significant content warnings or require a degree of empathy that only other survivors appear able to fully understand or display. As such, these things are hard to talk about on an immutable public forum.
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#7surviving a mass shooting The conversation surrounding such events and lack of political or social will to change left me jaded with Americana, ultimately I left the country and decided to contribute to a more sane society.
Me too. I wasn't at the October First shooting in Vegas, but I was not far away and I helped take food and stuff to first responders and hospital staff in the trauma ward after. Watching people call that a "false flag" was contemptible.
And now I live in England, where a loud report really is a car backfiring. It has its problems, but I'm not likely to get shot or go bankrupt from a hospital bill.
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#8Once upon a time my buddy was in the data center swapping drives, so i logged onto all the servers. 8 cabinets and like ~18 or so servers in each.
~$ base64 /dev/urandom
I don't know if that qualifies as 'changing my life' but when he told me he had to plug his ears and run away because it was so loud, it certainly made me want to turn this into a long-term career.
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#9When I was a little kid, I was at a department store and saw a guy doing something with a television. Or so I thought.
Me: What are you doing?
He: I am programming. What's your name?
Me: MG
He: Check this out:
10 PRINT "MG"
20 GOTO 10
I picked a book from a shelf about "Basic" and started to try figuring out how this worked. And never stopped. Have been looking at these "televisions" more than anything else since then.
Re: Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
#10When I was a little kid, I was at a department store and saw a guy doing something with a television. Or so I thought. Me: What are you doing? He: I am programming. What's your name? Me: MG He: Check this out: 10 PRINT "MG" 20 GOTO 10 Me: Woah! I picked a book from a shelf about "Basic" and started to try figuring out how this worked. And never stopped. Have been looking at these "televisions" more than anything else…
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