My only interest in anything private about Josh is when it affects LT's development. News his girlfriend was moving across the country and that he was moving out of his parent's house - and all of this during the holiday season: these affect LT because they are potentially life changing (and often in a bad way) events. We're all searching for reasons here and these are some very good indications that things seem to be spiraling down - again.

For reasons that seem to be out of Josh's control, he's lost nearly all the support and 'faith' he started with and even if he shows up here again and states the usual "working hard!", it will only confirm that he is alive, not that LT is.

NonBritGit wrote:My only interest in anything private about Josh is when it affects LT's development. News his girlfriend was moving across the country and that he was moving out of his parent's house - and all of this during the holiday season: these affect LT because they are potentially life changing (and often in a bad way) events. We're all searching for reasons here and these are some very good indications that things seem to be spiraling down - again.

For reasons that seem to be out of Josh's control, he's lost nearly all the support and 'faith' he started with and even if he shows up here again and states the usual "working hard!", it will only confirm that he is alive, not that LT is.

^ +1 Agree completely NonBritGit!

I have criticized in the past people going after information on Josh's personal life. Learning this type of info makes me unconfortable and I won't ever go after or discuss it. However, I also think there is some overreaction going on here.

It is quite simple: people put money on a developer's project; such developer disrepectuflly disappears; at least people who put money have all the right to go over publicly available information that might help them assess the likelihood of such project to really be still in development.

This is getting a little ridiculous, almost half a year...

Did you ever think of what will happen in the unlikely case that Josh suddenly shows some great progress?! Of course, everyone will cheer and applaud him. But honestly, this would be exactly that case were I feel getting that middlefinger Josh talked about in his last post. It's letting people in the dark, supporters sometimes spending a great amount of money for exclusive involvement, just to show off in the end: See, I told you...
That's just not the behaviour I want to support. Projectwise, all other options are worse, so... yes, I'm unhappy.

Here are the 7 qualities of chronically unhappy people.

1. Your default belief is that life is hard.

Happy people know life can be hard and tend to bounce through hard times with an attitude of curiosity versus victimhood. They take responsibility for how they got themselves into a mess, and focus on getting themselves out of it as soon as possible.

Perseverance towards problem-solving versus complaining over circumstances is a symptom of a happy person. Unhappy people see themselves as victims of life and stay stuck in the “look what happened to me” attitude versus finding a way through and out the other side.

2. You believe most people can’t be trusted.

I won’t argue that healthy discernment is important, but most happy people are trusting of their fellow man. They believe in the good in people, versus assuming everyone is out to get them. Generally open and friendly towards people they meet, happy people foster a sense of community around themselves and meet new people with an open heart.

Unhappy people are distrustful of most people they meet and assume that strangers can’t be trusted. Unfortunately this behavior slowly starts to close the door on any connection outside of an inner-circle and thwarts all chances of meeting new friends.

3. You concentrate on what’s wrong in this world versus what’s right.

There’s plenty wrong with this world, no arguments here, yet unhappy people turn a blind eye to what’s actually right in this world and instead focus on what’s wrong. You can spot them a mile away, they’ll be the ones complaining and responding to any positive attributes of our world with “yeah but”.

Happy people are aware of global issues, but balance their concern with also seeing what’s right. I like to call this keeping both eyes open. Unhappy people tend to close one eye towards anything good in this world in fear they might be distracted from what’s wrong. Happy people keep it in perspective. They know our world has problems and they also keep an eye on what’s right.

4. You compare yourself to others and harbor jealousy.

Unhappy people believe someone else’s good fortune steals from their own. They believe there’s not enough goodness to go around and constantly compare yours against theirs. This leads to jealousy and resentment.

Happy people know that your good luck and circumstance are merely signs of what they too can aspire to achieve. Happy people believe they carry a unique blueprint that can’t be duplicated or stolen from — by anyone on the planet. They believe in unlimited possibilities and don’t get bogged down by thinking one person’s good fortune limits their possible outcome in life.

5. You strive to control your life.

There’s a difference between control and striving to achieve our goals. Happy people take steps daily to achieve their goals, but realize in the end, there’s very little control over what life throws their way.

Unhappy people tend to micromanage in effort to control all outcomes and fall apart in dramatic display when life throws a wrench in their plan. Happy people can be just as focused, yet still have the ability to go with the flow and not melt down when life delivers a curve-ball.

The key here is to be goal-oriented and focused, but allow room for letting sh*t happen without falling apart when the best laid plans go awry- because they will. Going with the flow is what happy people have as plan B.

6. You consider your future with worry and fear.

There’s only so much rent space between your ears. Unhappy people fill their thoughts with what could go wrong versus what might go right.

Happy people take on a healthy dose of delusion and allow themselves to daydream about what they’d like to have life unfold for them. Unhappy people fill that head space with constant worry and fear.

Happy people experience fear and worry, but make an important distinction between feeling it and living it. When fear or worry crosses a happy person’s mind, they’ll ask themselves if there’s an action they can be taken to prevent their fear or worry from happening (there’s responsibility again) and they take it. If not, they realize they’re spinning in fear and they lay it down.

7. You fill your conversations with gossip and complaints.

Unhappy people like to live in the past. What’s happened to them and life’s hardships are their conversation of choice. When they run out of things to say, they’ll turn to other people’s lives and gossip.

Happy people live in the now and dream about the future. You can feel their positive vibe from across the room. They’re excited about something they’re working on, grateful for what they have and dreaming about the possibilities of life.

Obviously none of us are perfect. We’re all going to swim in negative waters once in a while, but what matters is how long we stay there and how quickly we work to get ourselves out. Practicing positive habits daily is what sets happy people apart from unhappy people, not doing everything perfectly.

Walk, fall down, get back up again, repeat. It’s in the getting back up again where all the difference resides.

All of that is very well said, Poet.

It doesn't make me generally unhappy at all (per this thread's title), but maybe that's the point.

Long time lurker here. Yeah I know it doesn't really matter, but it makes me laugh when it takes a half year of silence to make a lurker start talking. </happiness>

On the off chance that Josh does show up and announce that he can't continue the development for X reason, is it even theoretically possible for those that remain to develop in his stead? Crowdsourcing development sounds like a bitch and a half, but as a hobbyist programmer, I would definitely love to help by doing menial work that others don't want to.

Even if it's not possible, I'd love to have the source code on his node/list UI.

Kekasi wrote:Long time lurker here. Yeah I know it doesn't really matter, but it makes me laugh when it takes a half year of silence to make a lurker start talking. </happiness>

Hey, that's a bit off-topic!

On the off chance that Josh does show up and announce that he can't continue the development for X reason, is it even theoretically possible for those that remain to develop in his stead? Crowdsourcing development sounds like a bitch and a half, but as a hobbyist programmer, I would definitely love to help by doing menial work that others don't want to.

I think under a specific set of circumstances it would be possible - Josh would have to open up his entire version control repository (if he has such a thing, I can't remember what his setup was like), and there would need to be a version that was capable of having code inserted in order to make it work.

It's impossible to say without studying it whether such a version exists, whether Josh was "in his right mind" when he determined that the app couldn't implement everything it needed to and be fast enough, or whether such a thing is repairable.

Even if it's not possible, I'd love to have the source code on his node/list UI.

There is a saying; "Hell is other people's code" and "Be careful what you wish for"

Ringu-dono wrote: I think under a specific set of circumstances it would be possible - Josh would have to open up his entire version control repository (if he has such a thing, I can't remember what his setup was like), and there would need to be a version that was capable of having code inserted in order to make it work.

It's impossible to say without studying it whether such a version exists, whether Josh was "in his right mind" when he determined that the app couldn't implement everything it needed to and be fast enough, or whether such a thing is repairable.

Sadly, I have never messed with a true compiled language (never got g++ working) so most of this is over my head.
It's not a simple as uploading a version to github?

I'm assuming that if it was going to be crowdsourced, it'd have to be open-source.

Ringu-dono wrote:There is a saying; "Hell is other people's code"

You haven't seen my code yet. I've used "TODO: Something, you'll figure it out" in a comment way too many times.

Kekasi wrote:Sadly, I have never messed with a true compiled language (never got g++ working) so most of this is over my head.
It's not a simple as uploading a version to github?

I'm assuming that if it was going to be crowdsourced, it'd have to be open-source.

Sure; I just mean that the current version of Josh's code may be very broken - it may take a long time to understand how it works, and even then it may not be possible to make a game out of it. So if open sourcing it was going to work, we'd probably have to dig into old versions of his code to find one that is possible to make a game out of.
Josh had said that the current version doesn't have any graphics plugged in, for example, so we'd probably need to go back to a point that did have the renderer and UI attached.

You haven't seen my code yet. I've used "TODO: Something, you'll figure it out" in a comment way too many times.

Heh, that's what I do too The saying just refers to the seemingly always true opinion that it's really hard to understand someone else's code, not necessarily that it's bad

Ringu wrote:... it's really hard to understand someone else's code...

Real Programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand and even harder to modify.

Time for a cryin' song!

Cody wrote:

Ringu wrote:... it's really hard to understand someone else's code...

Real Programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand and even harder to modify.

Time for a cryin' song!

Ha! That's the first time in over a decade I've heard Real Programmers

Poet1960 wrote:Here are the 7 qualities of chronically unhappy people.
snip...

Unfortunately, this is a very naive approach to situations that are beyond our control. Tragedies in our lives (losing loved ones for example) or mental states that make it nearly impossible to function (re: Josh). - and of course, always blaming the victim.

Much like attempting to solve the drug problem by "just saying no".

That all makes a good motivational poster for the office though.

NonBritGit wrote:

Poet1960 wrote:Here are the 7 qualities of chronically unhappy people.
snip...

Unfortunately, this is a very naive approach to situations that are beyond our control. Tragedies in our lives (losing loved ones for example) or mental states that make it nearly impossible to function (re: Josh). - and of course, always blaming the victim.

Much like attempting to solve the drug problem by "just saying no".

That all makes a good motivational poster for the office though.

That sounds kinda like a cop out to me. Perhaps you missed this part:

"We’re all going to swim in negative waters once in a while, but what matters is how long we stay there and how quickly we work to get ourselves out."

Which of course means, that it is not a perfect answer, or even the answer, and is not trying to be. I would suggest that it might stimulate some self evaluation, although it would seem only the ones who are happy will actually take that approach while the unhappy people will ignore it and close that eye and continue to wallow in their self imposed misery. We may not have control over circumstances, but we DO control our responses to things beyond our control.