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Yeah, I really hated those parts. The author calls them angels, but he also says to call it what you will, (talent, instinct, genies, blegh). It's worth reading, though, skipping the metaphysical parts as you would with Epitectus.

You're right, of course. There's a good book called "The War of Art" that I recommend to the OP, which is precisely about this.

I'm correcting you, that's all. How can you say you're neutral and then present only one side?

No, it wasn't when the inquisition came, it was in response to the airbnb post. We've gone through this already, llambda. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2823714.

No, and neither did this guy, Troy, who also called airbnb. I don't think its a good idea to counter with more speculation.

It's just another assumption. But again, what makes you think there's a lawyer involved too?

We can go on forever about possible interpretations, but all those quotations are making you look bad. What proof do you have that EJ is "EJ", and that Troy is "Troy" and that this is a "conspiracy" and were an "angry mob of white knights"?

For better integration with an issue tracker, and because a master branch should have a formal commit history.

I make tons of little commits on a local branch with messages such as "reformat styles", "whoops, fixed typos", "fixed the query", and such. I use "rebase -i" to squash all of them together with a better, and more formal, commit message, like "Repairs and styles main navigation, closes #9".

I hate a master branch with a commit history with casual commit messages.

Witch hunt? Who are we, the angry mob of white-knights, burning? I don't think anyone has taken extreme measures to persecute Airbnb, but Arrington was blamed out of the blue with little regard for actual guilt or innocence.

Jacques, listen: Airbnb already called the grownups, and he made an even bigger mess. You're telling us to calm down, to not be so brash, but you should have asked for her permission.

So, by this reasoning, who does airbnb owe responsibility to?

I hate this list. It takes too long to get its point across(17 points), all the micromanagement will slow everything down, and point 2 and 15 are contradictory.

I worked under someone like this as an intern, and though I never "got in trouble", that's probably because I was scared and needed the money. I left as soon as I could and so did most of the team.

Don't ignore the second post: She claims she hasn't been contacted by anyone since June 30th, until well, now, almost August, when the post went viral and this whole mess was brought to light.

reply-edit: It's follow-through that matters. Is this not one of our principles? Yet, she's still homeless, hurt, and scared, but who cares, right?

"For all we know!" is an excuse. Airbnb's, "we're on it, folks!, let us get past this round of funding first" is another excuse. "It's all Arrington's fault" is another excuse, and a stupid one at that ( Yes, I said it ), especially when this thread is about EJ's blog-post, not Arrington's.

It bugs me that this turned into a fight between camps, and getting uglier, sillier, and dumber as time goes on.

Taking pg's wonky comment (second-hand information, shifting blame on Arrington) as confirming the conspiracy theory is a "Because the bible tells me so". He's not your deus-ex-machina.

And the conspiracy theory camp keeps calling the woman the most terrible names, accusing her of over-dramatizing, how dare she! She's not one of us!

...and so on. I really didn't like that. I didn't down-vote you, but I would have if I could.

+1 to the recommendations of Puerto Rico, Settlers, and Power Grid. Everyone I've played those games with immediately forget about Monopoly/Risk/etc and ask when we can get together to play again.

I often play Neuroshima Hex on my iPhone, it's great.

Open the door all the way until it hits the wall, throw a towel over it, and start doing pullups. Some people use workout gloves, but it's basically anything that will serve as padding. The door will hold, for sure.

Here's a video of what it looks like: http://youtu.be/dCkqIMKTSa4

I think you'd get more cred picking out a semi-popular project(so that your pull request doesn't get lost in the shuffle), and fix bugs and/or implement features. Maybe help with some documentation or translations.

You can throw a towel over a door and use it to do pullups, by the way. No need to find a tree branch. His evernote is much better than mine though, I'm such a lame pre-optimizer.

This kind of stuff is really important. I've done this for about a year now, read about it somewhere, called them Morning Pages, or something like that. It's really a daily brain dump, and I use Evernote to have the entries easily searchable and taggable. I also write right before I go to sleep and for lack of a better name, called them Evening Pages.

Once I got into the habit of doing them, I saw three other benefits: 1) I no longer needed stupid to-do lists, 2) Because I did them right when I woke up, before I was conscious enough to be self-conscious, I was brutally honest with myself, and got rid of my obnoxious depression, and 3) The daily practice really improved my writing.

Journaling really is a better form of meditation. I wish I'd gotten into the habit sooner.

I've always liked (and would have used) Blender for stuff like this.

The SDHN guys meet up quite regularly, http://goo.gl/l5MYb.

Unfortunately, I don't live in SD anymore, or I'd let you crash on my couch while you got settled. I was in a similar position last year, and it can get a bit tough. It's an expensive town. I suggest to ditch the bike, and get a Compass Card. You can get those at the ticket vending machines next to bus/trolley stops. You'll be able to travel longer distances, and it's much, much cheaper(about $80 per month).

Best of luck, and don't give up!

I just made reading one of my hobbies and I read the really good ones twice, keeping notes as if I was engaging in conversation with the piece the second time around.

You'll have to make some sacrifices. Reading is a large time/energy investment, no matter how you cut it, but it has by far the greatest returns.

I kept a reading list for a bit, but never really used it. I usually just pick out books as I see them.

I follow the standard "git init ." route, except I follow it with a very long and delicious nap.

Sure. The trick is to get to 10-12% body fat, which takes a little bit of time to get to, but it's easy to maintain once you're there.

First, a standing desk. I always get fat when I'm sitting down for too long.

Then, as soon as you wake up in the morning, eat scrambled egg whites, a can of beans, with a splash of olive oil. Take a multivitamin, and a garlic pill. Drink a lot of water.

Then workout, repeating a circuit of exercises for 25 minutes. I do 4-day splits, (out of habit, mostly) so 4 days in a row I'll exercise, and on the 5th, I rest. I just steal circuits from the 'net every two weeks or so. The key is intensity. The more intense you make the workout, the better you'll do.

Here's a sample circuit:

Pullups x 5 | Ab Wheel Rollout x 10 | Pushups x 15 | Squats x 20 | (no rest between circuits)

The rest of the day, I eat as much as I want of meats(yum), vegetables, and legumes, and I drink a lot of water. I pig out when I'm out with friends, which is every once in a while. Opt for liquor instead of beer, though.

This may sound a bit frivolous but, I've found that the quickest way to change your life for the better is to develop a nice set of abs. No better anti-depressant. I do get the urge to skip, of course, but I can usually convince myself not to by putting on workout clothes and running shoes and waiting until I feel like exercising.

It's something you tell developers so they can go to sleep at night, but a lot of us don't actually have the economic freedom to do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

You may want to take a look at eliterature.org, for some ideas. I think there is something to be said that visual and interactive novels make up about 70% of game titles released in Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_novel

An IF novel should do quite well as a mobile App. I've been taking a few stabs in the dark lately, adapting Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" into an IF piece, but haven't had much luck, really.

It's not exactly sudden, you know. We're not using punch-cards anymore, for example. I've haven't done much debugging, since Haml/Sass/Coffeescript write better HTML/CSS/Javascript than I do, but you can always look at the compiled code if you need to.

The best trick I know is one I stole from Ernest Hemingway, that is to always stop working when you're doing good, and don't think or worry about your work until you start again the next day.

Another good source of information is Ross Emanait @ rosstraining.com. His plan is geared more toward boxing and other combat sports, which I just always found more fun. E.g. throwing a heavy sand bag around as if you were getting ready to fight a bear, and so on.