Coding withdrawal

[annikk.exe]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[annikk.exe]

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

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

[Pilchard123]

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]

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]

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]

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

[annikk.exe]

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

PS: Have one on the house!

[Bonobo]

http://xkcd.com/844/

[annikk.exe]

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]

Oh. Bonobo got there first.

[Bonobo]

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.