Sigh What have you accomplished in a decade?

[ElPolloDiabl]

So the decade is nearly over. What have you accomplished in ten years?
And what do you hope to see happen in the next ten.


Put me down for alive and in good health. Amiga has sunk, but re-emerged with more realistic goals. I still haven't become a veteran programmer. More later...

[kedawa]

The decade isn't over until December 31st, 2019, but I'll play anyway.
I've done shockingly little in the last decade, especially the last five years.
I turned 30 a few years ago, and resolved to try new things whenever I get the opportunity, but that didn't amount to much.  I've learned new things and had some fun, but not nearly as much as in previous decades.

[tone007]

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Reading has not been accomplished!

[Marcb]

The decade isn't over until December 31st, 2019, but I'll play anyway.

So... How long are the decades where you live?:confused:

[ElPolloDiabl]

Reading has not been accomplished!

Okay just mention Amiga in your reply and it meets the criteria. So what have you done Amigawise and other?

[zipper]

My Amiga: about 10 years unaltered except X-surf added. PC-side (because of digicams): 6 years, 4th laptop. That's progress...

[kedawa]

So... How long are the decades where you live?:confused:

How do you mark decades where you live?  I can tell you how we do it here.
...
80's: January 1st 1980 - December 31st 1989
90's: January 1st 1990 - December 31st 1999
00's: January 1st 2000 - December 31st 2009
10's: January 1st 2010 - December 31st 2019
...and so forth

[tone007]

A decade is 10 years anywhere, however people want to apply the term decade to a particular 10 year range is their problem.

As for Amiga accomplishments in the last 10 years, it only took about 2 years for me to run the hardware gamut from A1000 to A4000T and beyond, various nice third party expansions included.  I think I've got the bug mostly out of my system and will probably stick with the few I have left.

[agami]

He didn't say the 00's are nearly over, he said 'the' decade is nearly over, as in the first decade of 21st century. It started on 1st January 2001 and ends on 31st December 2010.

Unless you don't follow the internationally accepted standard Gregorian calendar.

[Marcb]

:laughing:

Well, in the last ten years I've gotten back into Amigas, stil had my 1200 and a 500...
Funny thing is, even though I used to run a BBS, play games and do some programming last time round, I reckon I'm enjoying them more this time around!

[ElPolloDiabl]

He didn't say the 00's are nearly over, he said 'the' decade is nearly over, as in the first decade of 21st century. It started on 1st January 2001 and ends on 31st December 2010.

Unless you don't follow the internationally accepted standard Gregorian calendar.

Decimal starts with 1. I believe binary starts with 0.

[the_leander]

So the decade is nearly over. What have you accomplished in ten years?
And what do you hope to see happen in the next ten.

tl;dr version?

Married, two kids, divorced, homeless, rehoused.

And what do you hope to see happen in the next ten.

None of the above ever again.

Quite honestly the last ten years has been an unmitigated disaster for me personally.

[Piru]

So the decade is nearly over. What have you accomplished in ten years?

Early 2000 I was asked to join a project to create a new operating system. Today it's at version 2.6. I am very happy that I've been part of the ride and look forward to taking the project even further.

On a professional level I did a complete career rework and changed to a new field: Information Security. Best decision I've made really, the field is really interesting and there's always new things to learn. You get to see places and systems that you would otherwise only hear about. Future prospects are good as well: regardless of new technologies and platforms the security issues will be always be there and pentesting is needed. This career change lead to a new job, moving to the capital area and some other rather major changes.

Of course there has been some bumps along the way but especially the last 3 years have been great.

[gertsy]

He didn't say the 00's are nearly over, he said 'the' decade is nearly over, as in the first decade of 21st century. It started on 1st January 2001 and ends on 31st December 2010.

Unless you don't follow the internationally accepted standard Gregorian calendar.

The Gregorian calendar system does not reference decades.  I think you are confusing the Proleptic Gregorian Calendar(retrospective to 1582) with the current, in relation to the Gregorian origin that year 1 AD which follows year 1 BC  is the start of the calendar system thus the confusion of when centuries end.  This confusion actually stems from the Julian and Roman method of counting the current year in recitations.  Eg: we are in our 2011th year.  Because we no longer do that in modern counting and also because it makes us older than we really are, the modern norm is 0-9 = the decade set and not 1-0.

As for a decade it is a modern reference for that to default to the years 0-9 inclusive of a tens group.  EG: 60s, or Naughties.

Reference: Wikipedia, and my head, and Calculator on WB1.3.

BTW, And back on topic, I got back into Amiga in the Mid Naughties after dropping off in 98.  I also headed up the greenfields setup of a new businesses IT from scratch in 02-03.  That was fun.  Now I just tell other people how to do it and keep them on the rails when they start straying..

[fitzsteve]

I got Married & we bought our first House.
 
We've travelled about 30 countries over 4 continents.
 
I've put on and lost 4 stone in weight!  (the latter was the accomplishment it takes a lot more effort to loose it again!)
 
And recently found again a hobby I'd forgottern about, yep you guessed it!  In just the last year I have built up quite an accomplished Amiga collection from an Accelerated A600 up to a Full Fat PPC A1200
 
Now I just need to get a decent job and stop slacking off in this dead end one :hammer:
 
Steve.