littlethrowaway

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Ask HN: Tips/Places to learn to touch type properly
3 points by littlethrowaway 4y ago|4 comments
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by littlethrowaway 4y ago
Wow, this is absolutely fabulous. Thank you very much for making it. Extremely simple to use. Just really well done.
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by littlethrowaway 4y ago
Skype call credit can certainly help you out when calling home from overseas!
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
I'm sorry to hear that - and I hope you're doing fine now. I really didn't have any "bad" experience like that (mania is awesome fun ;)), of course, the downside was depression followed by years of medication. They
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
No, they certainly shouldn't... for various reasons I did a vipassana 10 day silent retreat back in 2010, and, ended up triggering a bipolar episode[0]. No, there was no history of that in my family, it was a complete surprise. This ob
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
Is shoots and ladders the same as "snakes and ladders" ? https://www.amazon.com/HASBRO-GAMING-Chutes-Ladders-Board/dp... is what you're talking about?
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Ask HN: Is occasional 100ms disk latency normal in shared hosting?
3 points by littlethrowaway 5y ago|3 comments
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
I do not recommend vipassana unless you've done a _lot_ of meditation before. 10 days of complete silence is a massive strain. I did it, based on little more than a recommendation like this, and had a bipolar episode (no history of bi
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
I was in Christchurch New Zealand in September 2006 when we experienced a meteorite. http://meteorite-identification.com/mwnews/09122006.htm . Extremely loud, sounded like a truck had fallen over!
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
Heh, I have seen professionals, one literally said "I don't know why you're coming to see me!" ;) What I'm curious about: Are you suggesting that it is childhood trauma that will trigger a bipolar episode (rather th
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
It was a long time ago now, 11 years or something. I think I was probably fairly happy, but, maybe at a little bit of a loose end. The main reason I went on it was because doing a meditation retreat was suggested at a leadership seminar I w
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
Sorry for the late reply. I'd never had a bipolar experience before the retreat. It is my firm opinion that 10 days of a complete silent retreat was too much stress and triggered it.
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
Heh, a very similar thing happened to me actually, and while I agree about the fist-fight comment, I honestly didn't have any childhood trauma. Came from a loving, pretty privileged family, but I still went off the rails with a 10 day
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
Ha! I thought it might have been vipassana. My own experience of this (a 10 day silent retreat, not having done meditation before) was a full blown manic-psychotic experience (never having had any such thing before, nor in family history).
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
First time I came across this one was when it was linked from theuselessweb [1]. My favourite is still https://hooooooooo.com/ (needs sound) [1] https://theuselessweb.com/
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by littlethrowaway 5y ago
Great question, and I'm looking forward to hearing the answers. Off the top of my head if you _really_ wanted to do it, then, probably both you and your partner getting an electric cargo bike and some kind of trailer [1] would be the
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by littlethrowaway 6y ago
So, why are people getting upset about this then? If you can simply just _not use snaps_?
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by littlethrowaway 7y ago
We have a 15 month old. She is probably the easiest kid imaginable, sleeps really well, eats really well, great temperament. It's still ridiculously hard work. My partner still isn't recovered from the birthing process (some laten
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by littlethrowaway 8y ago
I've been trying to understand why I would use WebComponents over vue/react. Like, if you're going to use a layer on top of WebComponents, why not use something like Vue anyway. Their single file components allow you to compo
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by littlethrowaway 8y ago
Yip, basically totally new to practicing meditation. Utterly naive ;) I actually think it should be a requirement that you undergo a 1 3 or 5 day course first, before they allow you onto a 10 day. Unfortunately, you have to do the 10 day fi
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by littlethrowaway 8y ago
TLDR: I had a manic psychotic (bipolar) episode triggered on a vipassana course. This was with zero history of mental illness (before or after) Be quite careful with Vipassana, especially if you're not used to regular meditation. It&#x
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by littlethrowaway 10y ago
I have just started working as a freelancer / contractor. It's a pretty nice deal working for a client whom I used to work for when I was in a consultancy. Anyway, while I'm sure you-are-not-a-lawyer, if you have any advice r
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by littlethrowaway 10y ago
Yip, I totally agree that it's like exercise, and I totally totally agree that you should start slowly. However! where I did it (in New Zealand) vipassana specifically started you at the 10 day course (or did 8 years ago), there was no
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by littlethrowaway 10y ago
Yip, I get on average 1 - 2 mails a year from that site from people who have gone through a similar thing after a vipassana course... And that blog is buried on Google, so I'm sure there are more people who are having issues.
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by littlethrowaway 10y ago
Be quite careful giving advice about meditation. Under your "beginner" heading you suggest Dhamma - the 10 day 9 day silent course (I'm assuming vipassana is an example of this). I did a vipassana course after a similar sugge
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by littlethrowaway 10y ago
Thanks for the reply. This is the thing, the remote environment would be entirely under my control and I think the work-life balance would be fine. The non-remote job would be more challenging work, probably a bit more corporate & rigid
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by littlethrowaway 10y ago
This did strike a chord. I'm 37. I've been programming since leaving university. I had a stint of about 6 years in the middle of my career where I stagnated. While it was fun (I did a lot of climbing, biking, caving etc.), it was