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Cheers
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I think sometimes you have to realize that it's OKAY if you're always the one to keep in touch, and no one else seems to make any effort. As long as they're happy to talk when you call, or they show up at the group event when you badger them enough: that's fine. Some people are just not initiators, and it's either you make the effort, or you lose touch with them. You can't insist on reciprocity.
Is it OK? I'm genuinely not sure. I have been considering a new year's resolution not to keep propping up relationship that aren't reciprocated. Are they "not initiators" in all relationships, or just with you? Why do you conclude that it's ok (genuinely interested)?
In today's info overload overwhelming reality, its natural that lot of people are going to disconnect.
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Seventhed - I've written to HN's email address and received a personal response from Daniel the same day. You could have the greatest, most expensive commercial support contract and it wouldn't get you a Daniel!
Eighthed - @dang is so responsive with emails too.
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Every year is the year of Linux desktop :P
Desktop Linux is: * Easy (and gratis) to obtain * Easy to install, these days, on most machines * Behaves nicely out of the box - usually, with most popular distributions * Has good software catering to most user's daily needs, and is well-internationalized and well-localized for the most part. * Looks nice :-) So, yes, I'd say that these days, every year is the year of the Linux Desktop.
I’ll be honest, I don’t know what we’re celebrating. The planet has been on a slow roll into oblivion. 2024 will be the hottest year in recorded human history and we’ll probably pass the irreversibility threshold for average global temperature. There are multiple extremely unsettling ongoing global humanitarian crises: Chinese-Uyghur, Russo-Ukrainian, the latest Israeli conflict*. What exactly are we celebrating? *no…
We are the unbroken line of billions of years of life, and today we're still alive, unbroken. May it always be so.
I used to have friends in uni with whom i could share very nerdy/technical conversations. near graduation we no longer get together sadly. this has taken a toll on me. HN is a place that feels like home, even if I'm usually just lurking around and overhearing conversations. Thanks everyone for sharing!
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Is it OK? I'm genuinely not sure. I have been considering a new year's resolution not to keep propping up relationship that aren't reciprocated. Are they "not initiators" in all relationships, or just with you? Why do you conclude that it's ok (genuinely interested)?
I am one of those people that could be described as "not intiators". I genuinely appreciate when people get in touch. I am sorry that I'm almost never the intiator, it's a trait I unfortunately have and I'm working on getting better.
Now I am the initiator most of the times.
And huge thanks to dang for all his work over the year!
Happy new year hacker news