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productivity enhancement hints |
pkrcel
Member #14,001
February 2012
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Johan Halmén said: If one had the eternity of time, one would do things later. Sig meat! but...is this yours johan? I'd like to credit correctly It is unlikely that Google shares your distaste for capitalism. - Derezo |
GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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Just focus on your task. What else ? "Code is like shit - it only smells if it is not yours" |
Paul whoknows
Member #5,081
September 2004
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Get yourself a boss and I guarantee your productivity will start to increase. ____ "The unlimited potential has been replaced by the concrete reality of what I programmed today." - Jordan Mechner. |
Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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pkrcel, yes, that's what I came up with after reading Dennis' post. But google for it. I'm pretty good at re-inventing the wheel. Unintentionally. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
Bruce Perry
Member #270
April 2000
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My idle time spent on /r/cringe is somehow unfulfilling. My idle time spent on allegro.cc tends to bring me things like that article of Michael's. On this basis, I recommend keeping allegro.cc open By the way, occasionally I manage to spend a Saturday, Sunday or both working on a game at home, and when I do, I often find that being on IRC gives me the feeling that there are other people out there, and that makes it worth doing things. So closing IRC is not necessarily good advice in all situations. -- |
pkrcel
Member #14,001
February 2012
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Johan Halmén said: pkrcel, yes, that's what I came up with after reading Dennis' post. But google for it. I'm pretty good at re-inventing the wheel. Unintentionally. No need to, it'a hell of a reinvention. It is unlikely that Google shares your distaste for capitalism. - Derezo |
Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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If I'm working on web apps, I put my web browser on a second monitor, using full screen mode. Don't get distracted by notifications from email, chat, etc. (For Firefox, the Autohide Toolbar extension helps since the default animation that happens when you temporarily unhide the toolbar by moving the mouse to top is horrible.) |
Chris Katko
Member #1,881
January 2002
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Quote: IRC Ughh... when I was working on a tessellation shader for the Dolphin project, IRC was the only way to reach the developers. Try meeting up with random dudes from Germany working on a project in their space time. Talk about frustrating! Half the time the only replies I got were, "Oh... I don't know anything about the shaders. You need X, who is never online." -----sig: |
bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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IRC is an excellent way to communicate, but most hackers are happy to communicate via mail and groups/projects generally have a mailing list.. IRC is the preferred way to communicate in real-time. Mailing lists are the preferred way to communicate in virtual time. Or Web forums for Windows-oriented developers. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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I did rather well with KDE4's Activities. They are like virtual desktops, except a higher level, since they even include virtual desktop state. I had one for "personal" and "work". when switched into work, my personal browsing, and projects, and (eventually) mail/chat stuff would be hidden, and work stuff shown. It's even possible to "suspend" an activity, so kde will stop/start processes in an activity on demand if needed. It's pretty neat, but its taken a long time to be completely implemented (assuming it has been, I haven't seen the necessary features in kmail to hide specific folders or email accounts yet, but I haven't looked yet). -- |
Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Due to recent thoughts I might add that "productivity enhancement" is equal parts of doing what you want to do (e.g. making games because you enjoy it rather than because you think you'll get rich), and "grokking in the fullness of time" (having patience to understand bone deep). For instance, last night I tried getting into shaders, and stumbled over deprecated functions such as ftransform(). It took me awhile to get past the habit of thinking of GL_MODELVIEW matrices and friends to understanding that you have to construct your own matrices. I thought "geez that's a lot of work and googling" until it bubbled up from my subconcious that I had a wealth of code to transform quaternions directly to OGL matrices and the transform was simply sticking the X, Y, Z translation into indexes 12, 13 and 14. Once I got past that, I remembered my old software rendering stuff from 10 years ago (which I did because I enjoy such a thing) and presto! I simply had to substitute the mulmat4 stuff for the GLSL equivalents (although I could ignore the Sutherland-Hodgman clipping). Disclaimer: I'm drunk again. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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When I hang out in IRC there is either silence (which is depressing) or talk (which is distracting). here's another one: don't hang out on deviantArt all day, replying to each and every fav and comment you may receive on your stuff as that quickly turns into a full time job (also, it blows up ego, easily gets to your head and pressures you into thinking you need to quickly make even more and even better stuff to meet any expectations and then you just really quickly burn out under the (imagined) pressure when you realize that a day only has that many hours) --- 0xDB | @dennisbusch_de --- |
Bruce Perry
Member #270
April 2000
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Quote: Disclaimer: I'm drunk again. Is that why you passed the parameters to 'substitute' the wrong way round? -- |
Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Bruce Perry said: Is that why you passed the parameters to 'substitute' the wrong way round? I didn't even notice that. I'm just now getting past the "wander around the house while my head asplode" part. Just a few minutes ago I realized I can get rid of all the matrix pushing and popping while switching to/from perspective matrices to orthogonal for 3d with al_draw_text(). They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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