On Wednesday, 11 December 2013 at 19:45:25 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
I thought we'd enjoy a bit of reminiscing of the past year and
talk
about our plans for the future, whether it's something personal
or
D-related that anyone is willing to publicly talk about. It
should be
a fun topic, or so I hope! :) So let me begin..
Generally this has been an awesome year for me. This year I've
become
a part of the D core team, which is not something I even
planned for,
but I'm really grateful it happened. It's an awesome team to be
in!
Another thing that happened, is that after many years promising
myself
that "this year" was going to be the one where I get in shape
and live
a healthy life, it turns out that 2013 was that year! I've lost
20 Kg
(44 lbs) this year and now my BMI is in the normal range at
around
22.4 BMI. It was 28.4 BMI at 95 KG (209 lbs) at the start of
the year.
It wasn't just frequent exercise that helped me lose weight. I
started
eating healthy food, and now spinach, kale, beets, and other
vegetables are a permanent part of my diet. I wouldn't dream of
saying
this last year, but steamed veggies are absolutely delicious!!
As for my future plans, I'm hoping to land myself a nice
programming-related job next year. I've never had a programming
job,
most of the paid work I ever did was physical work, such as
drilling
through bricks, rock, concrete, installing and repairing air
conditioners, installing central heating systems, lighting and
electrical work, and stuff like that.
I also want to and plan to study algorithms this year. Whenever
some
algorithm-related discussion popped up in the newsgroups I would
typically avoid giving any input as most of the conversation
would go
over my head. But I'm gonna bite down and study hard, I really
want to
"grok" it.
Ok, so who's next who wants to share?
2013:
Got myself accepted and funded for a Physics PhD to do research
in to data-analysis techniques for magnetic-containment fusion.
Completed my research masters, as a matter of fact I'm making the
final corrections to my thesis now.
Started the PhD and I'm learning at a greatly accelerated rate
compared to previous study. It's great.
Learned a lot more about various bits of programming, thanks
mostly to D and its community. Cheers :)
2014:
Learning. Learning learning learning.
Research. Research research research.
I'd love to get back in to playing music regularly. Coding and
reading textbooks/papers every waking hour is too much.
Get in shape. Again, too much time reading and coding.
Complete a few of my D related projects. I'm terrible for
starting things and then abandoning them before they properly
take shape.
