Minecraft developer streaming live while coding

He was already living off of MC revenue by that time.

I'm a writer and I feel inadequate after watching his coding sessions. If I could write like he codes, I'd be putting Stephen King to shame by the end of the week.

I hope to god this isn't just a prodigy stage in his game developing abilities.

I found myself wasting far too much time on reddit. I ended up creating a for-work account that is only subscribed to /r/programming, /r/math, and a few others that are technically useful. (no /r/reddit.com, /r/pics, /r/funny, etc.).

So far it's been a few weeks, and I've found myself to be much less distracted when I have more important things to be doing.

HN doesn't seem to be as much of a time-sink (slower churn and narrower focus help, here). I might turn off the notifo integration, though.

You know what - I just did it. I know my productivity yesterday was shot - let's see what today brings. Thanks for that little verbal push - I may have actually needed that.

"Stones" is slang for "balls" is slang for "testicles," which are attributed (metaphorically) to be the source of bravery. Acts of great bravery are said to require loins of great fortitude, viz. "balls of steel."

IntelliJ is expensive. IntelliJ makes refactoring simple. For example, we got acquired by a company and were forced to rename our com.origcompany to com.newcompany. In one project that was several thousand class files. IntelliJ did it in about a minute. Eclipse crashed somewhere after twenty minutes. I actually had to use Eclipse because Flex Builder would only run on Eclipse Ganymede. I lost many minutes of my life waiting for Flex Builder to build. I don't know if that was a consequence of Flex Builder's mxmlc performance but I do know that Eclipse completely froze on our Windows machines a few times a day. For a team trying to get a app done, we unofficially acknowledged that Eclipse was an impediment. The major drawbacks to IntelliJ is that Git support is poor. I would recommend just doing stuff from the command line for Git. We use SVN. My general feeling with IntelliJ is that it is a very polished product that I've been using since 2000 (before that we used the awesome Visual Slickedit). In Eclipse, I found that simple stuff that you may do often isn't optimized (for example, reference or string searching) - in IntelliJ it is cached. In Eclipse, searching always took forever (I should have attempted to look for a searching plugin). My best analogy is that IntelliJ is a BMW and Eclipse is a minivan. Both work, one is better performance and more tuned. One is feature rich.