Re:Thirteen Years of Bad Game Code
by hinkley on Saturday April 01, 2017 @12:33PM
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Every time I am about to do a commit, I look at the code and give myself fifteen minutes to make it better. Always have (probably a habit I learned doing homework in college? I'm not quite sure).
In the grand scheme of things you'd hardly notice that it takes me a little bit longer. Over time those improvements become habituated and I just do a lot of them while I'm coding. Especially when I get stuck.
It's not in like cleaning while you cook. Once you have a tempo it hardly takes any longer to prepare the food but you don't leave yourself with a mess that discourages you from doing it again.
Re:Thirteen Years of Bad Game Code
by fapjacks on Sunday April 02, 2017 @12:15AM
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You seem to be implying that you only ever need fifteen minutes after any programming task to make all possible improvements that could ever happen to that code.
In the grand scheme of things you'd hardly notice that it takes me a little bit longer. Over time those improvements become habituated and I just do a lot of them while I'm coding. Especially when I get stuck.
It's not in like cleaning while you cook. Once you have a tempo it hardly takes any longer to prepare the food but you don't leave yourself with a mess that discourages you from doing it again.