Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

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Post by manish_gill » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 10:15 AM UTC

- Improve my health. I'm so bad at waking up early it's not even funny, much less do any kind of exercise.

- Have a good social life. Go out on dates etc.

- Learn a new language and stick with it. Contribute to open source if possible.

- Earn more money. Maybe ask for another raise or ugh, I dunno.

- Visit another country.

Re: Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

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Post by yzzxy » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 10:15 AM UTC

Reduce the time I spend staring dead-eyed at the internet. I still want to spend some of my free time programming (I'm a student) but I don't enjoy killing hours mindlessly looping through the same three or so sites.

Otherwise - get better at systems programming. Learn an ML language maybe. Study algorithms. Go to college.

Re: Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

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Post by flares » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 10:16 AM UTC

1.Socialise more

2.Travel more

3.Work on a OSS and on Quantum Algos (picked this up from other comments to ths thread)

4.increase my breadth while maintaing depth in the work that i do

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posting it here as a permanent reminder to myself

Re: Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

#34

Post by udswagz » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 10:17 AM UTC

- Put more effort in my bootstrapped startUp (a founder just left)

- Read a book at least one every month

- Exercise daily

- Launch my Startup and get Funding.

- Quite every trace of freelance and focus on the Startup.

- Date more

- Work more at Nights

- Get a hobby outside programming

Re: Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

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Post by ZenoArrow » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 10:18 AM UTC

matteotom wrote: post #7

1. Exercise 6 days/week. 2. Work on one thing at a time (no more multi-tasking). This includes not doing something else while talking to somebody. 3. Plan out when to do work the day it's assigned, and don't leave it to the last minute. 4. Meditate daily. 5. Minimize distractions. That is, no reddit, less Facebook, Twitter, and HN. I guess those are more goals than plans, but same idea. Edit to add: get into shape to…

Some admirable goals, I especially like number 2. Just a small thing, from what I understand exercising 6 days a week might not be optimal, your body rebuilds in rest times so there's a risk that you'll slow down your improvements in health by doing more than 4 days a week. I suppose you could alternate the parts of the body you work on? Anyway, I'm not an expert, just thought I'd pass on what I'd heard.

Re: Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

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Post by stevoo » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 10:23 AM UTC

1 ) Do some serious marketing/sales on my SAS. Some very nice features there but my sales skills are lacking.

2 ) Build my house.

3 ) Develop the next SAS with a friend as opentable for my country.

4 ) Travel to Africa !

Re: Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

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Post by Qantourisc » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 10:25 AM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #19

Spend less time with friends and more time on programming and playing games.

The opposite for me, then again it's not a 'plan' for me.

Re: Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

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Post by johnmark1845 » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 10:27 AM UTC

1) Make everyone around me more happier (my family, friends, clients, etc) 2) Contribute to the society 3) Work towards making my business more profitable 4) Exercise, keep fit and and healthy

Re: Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

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Post by edpichler » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 10:28 AM UTC

- Work less.

- Make my first surf trip.

- Learn how to dance.

- Study German.

- Spend more time building relationships.

Re: Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2015?

#40

Post by peteretep » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 10:29 AM UTC

- Keep my main software R&D contract for 12 months

- Expand my recruitment business to average x placements per y (http://perl.careers/)

- Exercise 70% of all days

- Eat 90% of my meals mindfully

- Meditate on 90% of all days

- Finish my dissertation and graduate my part-time MSc by July

- After July, release an eBook OR complete the iOS developer and Data Scientist Nano degrees from Udacity