Developers

Having now “properly” worked as a developer for a bit, I can relay a bit of top-secret insider knowledge:

Developers hate everyone.

Not everyone of course, just anyone else involved that isn’t specifically in their development team. Ideally, all developers want to be given a general direction, then left on their own to get there, with no interruptions. This isn’t practical, of course, and I imagine most producer/director/managers try to be as hands-off as they can, but that doesn’t stop developers being annoyed.

Marketing:
“Dur am make more like HALO!!!!1″

Game design:
“HERE ARE SOME CHANGES TO MAKE IT MORE LIKE HALO!!11″

Producer:
“Guys, four weeks to beta”
“Guys, wouldn’t it be better to do this other thing instead of the thing you’ve planned for?”*

Manager:
“I need everyone in a room so I can go over what ye all decided last week in the meeting I didn’t show up to”*

Other developers:
“Urr, the build you sent me doesn’t work”*
“Urr, neither does that build”*
“Hmm, this build that had no substantive code changes other than printfs works fine!”*
“As you’ve got a build that doesn’t work, can you help us debugging it as to why it doesn’t work? It’s not like you’ve got other work to do”*

* – I’ve seen this happen

Good manager, you’re fine, he’ll insulate you from a lot of it. Bad manager? Good luck cha!

9562.07 Kilometers

Bit too expensive (probably up to €1500-2000 all in), total trip time a bit too short (seven days), but there’s not much else wrong with it.

I’ll leave it as one of those things I would do if I’d lots of money. (June 12-19)

Vrooooooom

See lots of nice cars in London (saw an R34 last week, see a Ferrari about once every ten days, there’s an Aston Martin that lives on my route to Tescos), but this particular one is the most impressive so far. Again, my phone camera is shit, dunno why I didn’t take the snap in landscape:

Not too bad.

Enter…eh?

Going into a new shop for a weekly food shop is never a relaxing experience. Combine this with problems I’d had using my Maestro card for chip-n-pin transactions and I was mentally crossing my fingers the whole time.

Finally got to the checkout to see this:

Hard to see in my blurry-phone-photo, but for some reason decided to flip and mirror the characters. <3 bugs.

FUCKING DO IT

The other team on my floor at work have most of their scheduling and stuff facing outwards from their cubicles. It’s quite interesting, you get a quick overview of the progress of the project and timelines every time you walk past. When they’ve a deadline coming up, they pin up specific tasks that need to be done. Most are just plain descriptions, important ones have “High Priority” printed on them in red. And the very important ones?

Made me chuckle.