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sivanesanms

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sivanesanms··on Ask HN: Best current book to learn JavaScript?
JavaScript and JQuery - Murach. It's a two paged book. Left side you have text and right side you have code. So it is easy to get what they are explaining. Also they have good exercises to solve and learn.
sivanesanms··on Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?
I stopped relying on tools. Discipline is what it all takes.

Every year from Christmas I do a retrospective for all 52 weekends, my year goals, personal progress and professional progress. I try to find out where my money goes and my time as well. How Happy I was etc.

Make a year plan and print it and put it in your cube (in your home). Yes, please set up an office space in Home. It works.

Then make detailed plan for 52 weekends and weeks aligning to your yearly goals.

Now buy 1$ yearly calendar from dollarstore and fill it up. WHen I turn it each month I know what I should be doing this month. Also I align or change it with some buffer time.

Mostly I miss my deadlines, because my estimations are wrong or the new technology or programming language I am learning takes more time than I expected.

At the end I am happy that I am two steps ahead by planning compare to some one who has never planned.

Now if you ask about the results between a planner and non-planner, I don't know what to say.

sivanesanms··on Ask HN: How to finish personal projects?
Discipline replaces Motivation
sivanesanms··on Ask HN: How to finish personal projects?
Start it and never stop it until it is released, and after it is released based on response - keep continuing it.
sivanesanms··on Ask HN: Leave job right before app goes to production?
Where is Elon Musk and A P J Abdul Kalam?
sivanesanms··on Is there an alternative to Stack Overflow?
Been there experienced that. I realized that they are stupid, but after a while from their point of view, they don't want redundant questions. But still my questions were closed, but those were narrowly different from existing ones. I used this trick. create additional 3 accounts in SOF (have them in each browser like Firefox, Safari, IE) and you post your questions through your main account in CHrome. And then upvote from 2nd, 3rd and 4th account from all other browsers, to keep the question alive.
sivanesanms··on Is there an alternative to Stack Overflow?
Quora.com - Infact you can ask top writers of certain topics like Android, Secuerity to answer your questions. SOF lacks that feature.