Author Topic: Coding withdrawal (Read 18644 times)

annikk.exe · « **on:** January 06, 2011, 09:09:41 PM »

I'm at work.

In 5 hours I'll be home again, rolling up, and diving back into the code. I miss it hugely right now. It's so beautiful.

Hard to explain..

Bonobo · « **Reply #1 on:** January 06, 2011, 09:38:23 PM »

You’re an amazing person, Annikk! I think you’re somewhere in your twenties now, and I can only wonder what you may have achieved when you reach your thirties and fourties. Perhaps you should start coding under your real name soon, so that people will know about you. I imagine there would be a LOT of potential clients resp. employers resp. headhunters who’d like to know more about you.

annikk.exe · « **Reply #2 on:** January 06, 2011, 09:54:40 PM »

I'm not hard to find, if anyone wants to speak to me.. :>

Of course I'd love to just code stuff all the time, and get paid for it. But really, I don't have the skills for most games-programming-related jobs. All I have going for me is buckets and buckets of enthusiasm.
I'm also super-fickle and have a tendency to grow bored and wander off to do something else for months at a time. Can't imagine very many employers being thrilled about that.. :p

Anyway, I already have a pretty nice job, working at the family business looking after their computers. I have enough money and a nice place to live, and I get to spend (to be honest) a huge amount of time working on the projects that I think are important.
My life is pretty cool already, I think I should be careful what I wish for.. :>

Bonobo · « **Reply #3 on:** January 06, 2011, 10:14:06 PM »

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I have enough money and a nice place to live, and I get to spend (to be honest) a huge amount of time working on the projects that I think are important.

Very nice to know that a person w/ such talents has the opportunity to live like this. One can only wish that this world would allow for more of this …

annikk.exe · « **Reply #4 on:** January 06, 2011, 10:48:26 PM »

I hope for the same one day for all humans. :> Peace and love! ^_^

annikk.exe · « **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2011, 02:03:16 AM »

Quote from: annikk.exe on January 06, 2011, 09:09:41 PM

In 5 hours I'll be home again, rolling up, and diving back into the code.

And lo, the prophecy was fulfilled... :>

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 07, 2011, 02:26:08 AM »

Quote from: annikk.exe on January 06, 2011, 09:54:40 PM

Anyway, I already have a pretty nice job, working at the family business looking after their computers.

And you go to Arab-land? (not being racist, just seem to remember something about you going somewhere vaguely Arab-sounding)

That's a fairly big family buisiness.

annikk.exe · « **Reply #7 on:** January 07, 2011, 06:28:13 AM »

It's not big at all, we employ less than 10 people. :> We have an office in Abu Dhabi, and an office in the UK. I don't really like large companies to be honest... bureacracy seems to take over..

I just spent 4 hours writing a first draft of the documentation for my engines. ^_^

annikk.exe · « **Reply #8 on:** January 07, 2011, 07:15:00 AM »

By the way, the stuff I do doesn't exactly make me amazing. Legions of programmers before me have programmed parallax, and AI, and all the rest of that stuff - and likely done it a damn sight better than I have. I'm just the first to do it in Eufloria, and that's really not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.. :>

pigpenguin · « **Reply #9 on:** January 07, 2011, 08:24:00 AM »

I am amazed at how much time you spend at it honestly

annikk.exe · « **Reply #10 on:** January 07, 2011, 11:24:17 PM »

90 minutes and its the weekend... the code awaits.. :>

PS: Have one on the house!

Bonobo · « **Reply #11 on:** January 07, 2011, 11:55:58 PM »

http://xkcd.com/844/

annikk.exe · « **Reply #12 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:21:27 AM »

Yeah that is a familiar story unfortunately. :P
However it tends to be like that only when you're coding for someone else. If it's coding just for your own pleasure, when you've got an idea for a big change in your head, you know instinctively and usually better than anyone else what the ramifications of that change would be, so you can make an easy, informed decision to balance required functionality with ease of implementation.

The other major "truism" is the optimism of programmers. I'll say something like, "it's going great - should be finished in an hour's time!" and it will end up taking another 3 days. heh.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 08, 2011, 01:43:26 AM »

Oh. Bonobo got there first.

Bonobo · « **Reply #14 on:** January 08, 2011, 03:07:10 AM »

If you like xkcd you might also like Geek And Poke (check out the “code” category at the left, but I love ’em all).

The author, Oliver Widder, is German (like me), and very seldom he has a glitch in his English texting, but the stories are great nonetheless, they are some of my most tweeted

aside from xkcd and Joy Of Tech.

And then there’s Oglaf … but that’s on another page, sometimes NSFW but always enjoyable, IMHO.

annikk.exe · « **Reply #15 on:** January 08, 2011, 10:40:25 PM »

I ran out of food (completely) and today I got really really hungry until eventually I wasn't able to code anymore and just spent my time looking at pictures of food online. o.O
I eventually snapped out of it and went to the shop to buy a sandwich, and I've placed an order with the supermarket which should be delivered tomorrow. Now, moar coding !

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 08, 2011, 10:50:49 PM »

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You ran out of food? Why?

annikk.exe · « **Reply #17 on:** January 08, 2011, 10:58:01 PM »

Too busy to go shopping. :P

AWS · « **Reply #18 on:** January 09, 2011, 12:31:04 AM »

dude, food is more important than... er, most things actually!

oh dear...

annikk.exe · « **Reply #19 on:** January 10, 2011, 03:33:46 PM »

Well, I've spent the weekend playing around with different ideas, and now I've decided on what type of level I'm going to make.
It's in a playable form already. As usual, it's very unusual. :> I'm working on the balance at the moment, and tweaking various mechanics.
Can't wait to show you guys! :D
Probably going to be a week or two yet, though...

Sniped50 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 11, 2011, 04:04:48 AM »

Well, don't run out of munchies this time!

It just goes to show how much of a computer geek you really are...

annikk.exe · « **Reply #21 on:** January 12, 2011, 10:31:13 PM »

New level will be up at the weekend.
Decided not to keep a dev blog about this one, or reveal any details about it at all (apart from what I'm saying herein).

Just so you know though, I am STILL obsessed with coding as much as I possibly can. Any time not spent sleeping, driving or working is spent on code (I code whilst eating as well). So I am not resting on my laurels, despite my relative silence. :>

This new level will be something totally original, completely different from the regular game (even more so than Frontier).

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 13, 2011, 12:03:26 AM »

Oh, dear. More stuff to try to get my head around.

annikk.exe · « **Reply #23 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:03:35 PM »

Having a series of really bad headaches, which is hampering my ability to work.
Still hopeful on getting this up today though.

Bonobo · « **Reply #24 on:** January 16, 2011, 08:18:15 PM »

Methinks the other way ’round: I believe that coding withdrawal should be the first medicine used against headache

And: Sleep enough, eat enough, drink enough; too little of all these, esp. the latter two, can lead to bad headaches. Sunlight and a walk in fresh air could also help (OK, also talking to myself here

).

annikk.exe · « **Reply #25 on:** January 16, 2011, 08:34:27 PM »

It's actually from a wisdom tooth, I think. Got a dentist appointment tomorrow.

Bonobo · « **Reply #26 on:** January 16, 2011, 08:51:10 PM »

Aaaah, THAT thing. Good that you’ve got that appointment. And I can assure you, extracting a wisdom tooth won’t affect your wisdom

annikk.exe · « **Reply #27 on:** January 17, 2011, 01:22:33 AM »

Still trying to balance this thing.. :>
Getting close now.

annikk.exe · « **Reply #28 on:** January 17, 2011, 03:50:12 AM »

I's charging my laz0rz !!

annikk.exe · « **Reply #29 on:** January 17, 2011, 09:26:01 AM »

Argh...almost there... almost...
I will finish this before I sleep!

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #30 on:** January 18, 2011, 02:29:42 AM »

Look.

Life comes first. Then coding.

You will not die if you don't get the level out before you sleep. However, it is possible to die/get very ill if you do not sleep before you release the level.

Sniped50 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 18, 2011, 03:44:27 AM »

Pilchard, like I said before, knowing that code is thy name of God is the true mark of the computer geek. All things are puny and worthless compared to His will and XML.

It says that in the Bible... or at least, my version of it. Although I think I voided that warranty...

annikk.exe · « **Reply #32 on:** January 18, 2011, 04:01:40 AM »

Relax, it's finished now. Chilling out.. :>