I probably fall into the simply existing category, just deriving enjoyment from my hobbies and free time while trying to avoid things that annoy me.
Posted Jan 12, 2016, 8:14 AM UTC
Just learned to program in JavaScript a few months ago, fell in love with coding, now my goal is to become a kick ass coder.
Nice! I suppose you learned about HTML and CSS as well.
Hell yes!!
JavaScript has as many or more holes than swiss cheese. Rather switch to java while it's still new.
...and let the programming language wars begin.
To be fair, each language has it's uses. If you want to write code that runs on bare metal, C or C++ is the probably the way to go. If you want to write cryptography stuff or really low level stuff like asking the HDD to load a block into main memory, then assembly with an interface in C is probably the way to go. If you want to write code that runs in a browser, JavaScript is still the best option. If you are writing middleware stuff, then you have a lot of options, among which I prefer Java.
Use the best tool for the job.
> java
> new
Nice bait.
Yeah, hard to claim new, when its close to double digits on the version number.
I'm trying to work at least 1 hour everyday towards the most important mission: healthy youthful life extension. I'm in those 25% of people who believe that death/aging/suffering are the biggest evils
I suppose if I could physically stay in my 20s or 30s and live for longer then I would.
If only anti-agathics or rejuvenation treatment was a thing. Then again we'd probably run into over population issues or it would be monopolised by the rich and made prohibitively expensive.
Some of the things I've read wonder how human memory would cope but that probably just applies to lifespans of 250+ years.
If only anti-agathics or rejuvenation treatment was a thing
It's called calorie restriction and has been well researched and proven to make you live longer
Yes, very true. Do you also do caloric restriction?
How many meals per day it's optimum?
in animals, not human beings. To my knowledge there are no people who consistently live to 100+ due to calorie restriction.
Either way, it doens't matter since CR seems to work by affecting the sirtuin genes and there are drug therapies that will do the same thing coming out soon.
Human beings are animals...we work on pretty much exactly the same biological principles.
We ain't special dude :p.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/3/361.full
In countries were people eat low calories diets, they live longer.
The truth is that every single new technology was regarded the same way before becoming mainstream
Until the 19th century flying was the impossible dream for humans, and everyone believed that flying is impossible or if it will ever be possible, it will be only for billionaires.
In the 1990s, everyone believed that phones with mobile Internet are impossible, but if they will ever be possible, they will be available only for few multi billionaires.
Humans psychology is based on habits and always irrationally afraid of something new/unknown
I have and it's pretty good. Just good genetics, but good diet & exercising helps.
Some of the things I've read wonder how human memory would cope but that probably just applies to lifespans of 250+ years.
Notepads, computers, memory-training, mind-augmenting drugs.
57, retired last august after a 30 year engineering career
financially independent, never married, no kids (finance/investing is one of my hobbies)
bought a nice trailer, plan to fly fish the northwest US starting this spring (life long fly fisherman)
going to start a new career/avocation.... Artist
A lot of people aspire to make obscene amounts of money and surround themselves with useless crap. I picture my retirement to be much like yours. Congratulations!
Browe want to be just like you, coming from a 20 year old kid who got burned by redpill
Bit of both. Lets say that I'm involved planting a tree every other day, without concerns if it will eventually become a grove or forest.
Nicely said.
reaching financial independence through investments is a start. after that probably travel constantly for a year or two and read tons of books. then do something else. start a company maybe or teach others the way for 300 bucks/hour. thats what even mediocre financial advisers charge here and they actually have no clue. or open a cafe or something thats focused on people actually talking to each other and exchanging stories etc. no 5-10 bucks overpriced coffee. normal stuff. you know, like in the old days. or become an English teacher in japan for a year, just for fun. volunteer and help disaster victims. man the possibilities are ENDLESS if you are not tied down by woman+kids. way more to do than you could in a lifetime out there.
Working towards FI/RE as well so I can check out and do what I want.
Continuous self improvement, relationship independence and financial alleviation from the 9-5 are mine.
I'm currently doing 4 cross fit sessions a week, just broke off a short term relationship as I was dissatisfied and am now sleeping with 3 girls on rotation and own two properties looking to add a second positively geared investment property in the next 2 years.
Also I'm travelling Europe for a couple of months from June.
Learn how to code
move to the states, get a decent paying job, aim at 100k in the future
no wife or children, all my income will be spent on food, house, health, retierment FOR MYSELF, spend the rest on videogames and weed
which language are you learning and where do you live now?
Python (heard is a great language for first timers), Venezuela.
Get back to college and restart my life. Need to save money and pay off debt first. Sure feels like I'm simply existing though because of how long it takes.
Perhaps it didn't come across this way but I don't think there's anything wrong with simply existing, being and being comfortable with yourself.
Oh, well the way I meant it is that it's boring. Feels like I'm just treading water. I'm not, paying a big debt off. But don't have much time because of work or money because of debt so pretty limited on being able to experience life. It's fine for awhile but after 8 years now it's getting old.
Ultimate dream goal? Moving to an uninhabited island, taking care of my food and leaving humans behind completely, kinda like robinson crusoe. For something shorter term: own house with gym, only for myself.
90% right now is just simple day to day existence. Just coming out of a slump (depression). I'll probably have about a month or two to look forward to the future and work hard. I personally want to work on being more self sufficient and figuring out a nice place to live.
God yes.
I want to work towards property until I'm earning a certain amount per month with which I can live on happily without worries.
That takes care of the financial side.
On an emotional and more personal level, I want to use that money to travel to as many countries as possible.
But not as a tourist using hotels and stuff. Proper rough travelling/backpacking.
There are 193 countries. I wanna try a quarter of that first.
*196 countries
FTFY ;)
You didn't really fix anything though, since his number is correct assuming you don't recognize the disputed self-declared nations of Taiwan, Kosovo, and Palestine.
I'm in the transitional stage atm. Work has slowed down and the animal welfare place I volunteer at said they won't need for for a while because of the influx of volunteers so I'm thinking of what I can fill this time with. I've always had a passion for film so I'm in the process of laying out some goals for pursuing that.
I'm second year CS student and want to land a job as JS/FE dev before I'm 24 in May. By the time I'm 30 I want to build my own small house and learn to play violin.
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A little bit from Column A, a little bit from Column B.
I enjoy striving towards personal goals quite a bit, though sometimes, you do just need to decompress and 'simply exist.'
I found my doppelganger.
I'm just chilling atm. I finished a contract in November and have little desire to do anything of much really. So I just potter around drinking coffee, reading. I will have to go and do something work related soon.
I just do it day to day. Once you're not wife-ing up, and having children etc...the need to plan is far less. Which is nice :).
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I'm leaving this feminized, testosterone bankrupt, mangina repository shithole Canada!
I'm Canadian to and I can't stand it here anymore
Apart from feminism Canada isn't so bad, atleast that's what I've heard.
Canadian here, the weather sucks, the job market sucks, the currency sucks/everything is overpriced, overtaxation, breaching on nannystate, multiculturalism sucks (might just be me but I'm sick of it), the girls suck (the feminist way).
I'm broke too. No future here honestly. I wanna leave. At least health care?
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American here. Pretty much America in a nutshell, but without the health care ^
Canada is going down the shit hole.
It depends both on what you're using as a comparative benchmark, and on what specifically you value. I've lived in Canada, and while there are certainly worse places to live, I can't imagine moving back. Then again, I say that as somebody shifting towards digital nomadism with an inclination towards Asia, so I'm not exactly an ardent booster of the developed countries.
It isn't absurdly bad, but you can get a feel that many people possess mangina-esque beliefs here. Most of the time you keep your back turned to the feminists and you'll be fine. Ideally I'd like to be somewhere else, but sometimes it's just not possible.
Australia is waiting for y'all gents
I was thinking central or south america actually ;-)