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Re: Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life

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Post by brailsafe »

eimrine wrote: post #42
grapescheesee wrote: post #4

Depressing and inspiring. My dad gave me seven stones once. He said each is a decade of time you have. Then took two away, and threw them. He said use the rest as you can.

I would throw one more. Because: 20 years old is too late to start any personal development, try this approach with stones to 10 years old instead. 50 years old is a final point due to "A Mathematician's Apology" by Hardy.

20 years old is too late to start any personal development?

Is that a reference to the book or a genuine opinion?

Re: Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life

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Post by dEnigma »

eimrine wrote: post #42
grapescheesee wrote: post #4

Depressing and inspiring. My dad gave me seven stones once. He said each is a decade of time you have. Then took two away, and threw them. He said use the rest as you can.

I would throw one more. Because: 20 years old is too late to start any personal development, try this approach with stones to 10 years old instead. 50 years old is a final point due to "A Mathematician's Apology" by Hardy.

Oh no! So any personal development I experienced since I turned 20 was fake? I never would've thought.

Re: Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life

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Post by shard »

arrowsmith wrote: post #48
Mizoguchi wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A very serious and/or disabling health condition could deplete your savings in a few months even if you are considered middle class and have health/disability insurance. There's no guarantees there. Also, becoming homeless is extremely unlikely as long as you are healthy and able to work. Even a $15/hr job can put a roof over your head and buy you food.

In your first sentence you forgot to include "if you live in America."

I think you mean "if you live in most parts of the world."

Re: Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life

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Post by brailsafe »

Mizoguchi wrote: post #30
beebmam wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a lot to lose, in fact. Anyone who has lived in deep poverty and watched as loved ones became homeless or suffer from painful/serious health conditions because treatment is too expensive knows how much there is to lose.

A very serious and/or disabling health condition could deplete your savings in a few months even if you are considered middle class and have health/disability insurance. There's no guarantees there. Also, becoming homeless is extremely unlikely as long as you are healthy and able to work. Even a $15/hr job can put a roof over your head and buy you food.

> Even a $15/hr job can put a roof over your head and buy you food.

That's iffy, you might need to pick one, but "healthy" is also a pretty wildly varying thing and being able to work doesn't mean someone will give you work. Ya, maybe a temp agency will get you something if you're lucky, but then you also need to get rather lucky to get a place even if you can pay for it sometimes.

Sucks to say it, but if the majority of your work history is as a programmer and you fall on hard times, you're not at the top of any hiring list for a low-wage entry-level position.

Re: Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life

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Post by metabagel »

barrysteve wrote: post #2

Oh my lord, this is grim. For everything that could have been, your life is reduced to worker bee dots and squares on a graph? These look like tally marks in a Great Escape prison camp, but instead of four walls containing you, it's time. The West is dead, long live the West /s. Congrats on the marriage and new family.

I guess you wouldn’t like the WeCroak app. (Their website appears to have … ahem … died.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230528015034/https://www.wecro...

“The WeCroak app is inspired by a Bhutanese folk saying: to be a happy person, one must contemplate death five times daily.”

Re: Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life

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Post by mrroryflint »

spyrosk wrote: post #41

Coincidentally, yesterday I finished reading "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals" ( https://www.harvard.com/book/four_thousand_weeks/ ). It's a great book if you feel overwhelmed with all the things you must/should/want to do and struggle getting the most out of your remaining weeks.

Thanks for the recommendation - I just got back from the local bookshop and managed to grab a paperback copy.

Re: Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life

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Post by mrroryflint »

aaronmoodie wrote: post #21

This is great. For me, visually representing this data always has more impact. If you’ve not read it, I recommend Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. https://www.oliverburkeman.com/books And I just listened to this episode of Hidden Brain the other day which has a similar theme. https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-best-years-of-your-life/

Thanks for the recommendation - I just got back from the local bookshop and managed to grab a paperback copy.

Re: Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life

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Post by perilunar »

mrroryflint wrote: post #37
pstorm wrote: post #13

I love this. Is it open source? I would love to create my own with my milestones.

I guess so? It's pretty janky and a day or two of light work in between more serious commitments but feel free to take it and do what you will!

> It's pretty janky

There's 31,000+ divs generated. If you shave the unnecessary code from each one you could save several megabytes of repeated text in total. e.g.

- replace all the inline CSS with a couple of declarations in a stylesheet

- remove the class names on the round divs. Add a class only to the square ones.

- data-tooltip-id="tooltip" data-tooltip-html="..." is also repetitive. You could replace it with simply data-text="..."

- better still, add the text as content to the divs, hide it with CSS, and use :hover to reveal it.

Re: Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life

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Post by lumb63 »

Many commenters have remarked that this is “grim” or “depressing”. I couldn’t disagree more. It is the limited amount of time we have here that gives every day value. This is a reminder to make the most of every day, because our days are numbered.

For myself, I’m 26. I’m more than a third of the way done with my life, and I feel like I’m just getting started. But it’s so easy to let each day slip by, without consciously thinking about what I’m doing on a given day, or why. When I see it put into perspective that a third of my life is gone, I feel motivated not to waste the remaining time I have; I think, what am I going to do with those dots?

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