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Re: Ask HN: Hacker Hobbies?

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Post by dill_day » Sat, May 15, 2010, 7:18 PM UTC

Piano, guitar

Re: Ask HN: Hacker Hobbies?

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Post by davidwparker » Sat, May 15, 2010, 7:20 PM UTC

My main two: 1) working out. Normally something outside: running around Red Rocks, jogging and looking at the mountains, playing ultimate frisbee, etc 2) board games. Puerto Rico, Race for the Galaxy, Dominion, Hansa Teutonica... not Settlers of Catan, which seems to be just recently getting popular and is too luck-based for my liking.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker Hobbies?

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Post by lsternlicht » Sat, May 15, 2010, 7:26 PM UTC

cynicalkane wrote: post #18

I'd like to tout an increasingly rare hobby among younger people (non-retirees): Bridge, the card game. It has a rule structure and that hidden-information element that appeals to nerds, but it forces you to think critically and rationally instead of analytically (usually--opportunities for highly analytical plays pop up), and forces you to be able to relate with another person both at and away from the table, since…

Can you give me an example of thinking critically and rationally vs thinking analytically?

Re: Ask HN: Hacker Hobbies?

#114

Post by ajaimk » Sat, May 15, 2010, 7:30 PM UTC

Take over the world!

Also make infographics for the fun of it.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker Hobbies?

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Post by palguay » Sat, May 15, 2010, 7:36 PM UTC

Taekwondo , Table Tennis and Tennis.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker Hobbies?

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Post by route66 » Sat, May 15, 2010, 7:41 PM UTC

Keeping bees. Playing viol (that baroque instrument) and guitar. But I like to "follow my nose", so the answer might be different next year (did someone mention metal casting in this thread? hmmm...)