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Tough Decisions (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm the primary developer for a third party tool for Elite Dangerous and this is basically my entire thought process when I want to work on it.

I could work on Observatory...

Or I could play some Elite...

Or I could just stare at my screen ineffectually for several hours.

Staring at the screen wins frighteningly often.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I came back to playing a few weeks ago and absolutely stopped working on the 3rd party tool for X4 that I was making.

    Now, to get back to making programs, I am going to completely stop playing for a while. Because when I start dong something, I feel like doing another thing and then another and it goes on and the day is over.

    I also tend to be stuck thinking sometimes, whether to make the program I want, to put on my CV or to complete my resume website and spend a few minutes of staring at the screen, until I just go make some food.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I hate that feeling of bouncing between things, or of just staring at my screen so much. So much. But when it happens, I am rarely able to snap out of it in the moment. It usually takes a few days and a mood change to fix it.

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