drakonka

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by drakonka 8y ago
I've read about this concept somewhere before and found it really inspiring. I would think that knowing that my gains are "preserved" in some form would actually make me more lazy since I'm less afraid of completely reve
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by drakonka 8y ago
Going to the gym, working on my hobby projects, cuddling with my cats, being in nature, learning something new.
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by drakonka 8y ago
This is how I feel about my overscoped personal project as well. It'll never be done or turn into anything useful, but it's liberating and exciting to work on outside of the deadlines and scoping requirements of my day job (which
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by drakonka 8y ago
Nowadays I work around 8:30-18:00 on most days. I work out 3-4 days a week. Sometimes I go to gym during lunch, other times after work and maybe one day on weekends. I try to limit sugar and carbs but am not as obsessive about it as I used
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by drakonka 8y ago
I just finished Can't Hurt Me, it was a solid read though not quite the kind of thing I usually go for. I can't say I want to follow Goggins-level suffering by his example, but reading about his commitment to self-improvement and
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by drakonka 8y ago
Right now I'm reading Essentials of Discrete Mathematics and going through the exercises.
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by drakonka 8y ago
I did this for years and learned both from experience and later from reading the works of people who know much more about sleep than I do (highly recommend the book "Why We Sleep" that this kind of catchup is not possible. I found
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by drakonka 8y ago
It isn't really about how enforceable it is for me personally. Sure a strict policy may not be enforceable in the sense that they can't straight out fire me or sue me with a chance of winning. But at worst a company can still pile
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by drakonka 8y ago
I didn't ask this when I joined my current company, but have since learned my lesson. For future offers I will be sure to ask about the outside work project policy and pass if I feel it is overly restrictive.
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by drakonka 8y ago
I don't really come up with ideas, they just appear day to day and if they seem interesting enough to me I try to jot them down. There is no shortage of great ideas out there so it just becomes a matter of picking the stuff I think sou
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by drakonka 8y ago
The things I find really fun are things that my coworkers have expressed seem tedious to them. For example, I work in a very large code base, and I enjoy various refactoring and integration tasks. It forces me to debug and learn the code, a
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by drakonka 8y ago
I sort of experienced this. I was getting consistently good feedback as an IC, and my TD and line manager asked me to try out a lead role of a very small team. The idea was that I'd still have time to code as well, but in reality it in
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by drakonka 8y ago
I enjoy working on coffee shops, especially those that are branded as "coffice" type cafes. It's not an official coworking space, but the slight "time limit" (ie you have to keep buying coffee to stay) as well as ha
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by drakonka 8y ago
I was hired >6 years ago to work on CI as a build engineer and such and am now a tools engineer. Even though I do not work on our CI systems personally myself and moved out of that role after the first two years, I still use much of what
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by drakonka 8y ago
I have always been underweight before putting on more muscle just a few years ago. While I logically understand the challenges of being overweight or obese, nothing I've heard or read really drove just how much it weighs on you not jus
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by drakonka 8y ago
Hey, Max! We worked together across oceans a little bit when you were here. Just wanted to agree with your assessment. In the various teams/roles I've been in here over the last 6 years, from game team to core tech, I've gone
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by drakonka 8y ago
I haven't done QA in a very long time so unfortunately do not have much detailed insight anymore. In general, in a AAA studio when I think of "QA" I think of so much more than just game testing for end users. We have things l
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by drakonka 8y ago
QA (both embedded and external) is extremely far from dead in the game dev industry at least.
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by drakonka 8y ago
I'm not sure what GIC and HISA are, but it sounds like they may be US-specific? I'm in Europe, not sure what the equivalent is here if any.
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by drakonka 8y ago
I do have automatic withdrawals, but unfortunately I often end up taking some of that back into my main account. I also have 10% being kept from me each month by my employer as part of the Employee Stock Purchase Plan - it is my one bit o
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by drakonka 8y ago
I am making mine right now - I spend too much money and save too little. I'm working on it, but it's proving difficult to get out of the habit. When I was a freelancer saving was easy because I didn't have the illusion of a c
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by drakonka 8y ago
Recognising when it was time to transfer to a new position (within the same company) where I could continue growing as an SE, and acting on it.
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by drakonka 8y ago
Concise and informative, thank you for sharing.
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by drakonka 8y ago
I donated to The Good Food Institute, The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, and the Nonhuman Rights Project.
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by drakonka 8y ago
No; maybe if I was a junior who was really desperate and could afford the expense, but not at this stage.
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by drakonka 8y ago
I am using a kneeling chair and a trackball instead of a traditional mouse.
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by drakonka 8y ago
Thank you, this looks like just the kind of thing I've been looking for!
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by drakonka 8y ago
What I actually do. My job is super interesting, but I can't find a good way to explain it to outsiders. I am a software engineer in the games industry. If I worked on gameplay it would be a bit easier, but I work on core tech/cen
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by drakonka 8y ago
> Sometimes I feel that it can be a lucrative trap to become invested in a single person, and then accumulate expectations that far outweigh the responsible obligations of any friendship. Lately I feel like this about traditional romant
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by drakonka 8y ago
I decided to try growing some of my own food this summer. I live in a small apartment in Stockholm and was inspired on a trip to Glastonbury Tor, where I bought some heritage seeds. It was much too late in the season to plant this stuff whe

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