Yesterday, I started using Rescuetime on RC's recommendation.
My productivity instantly increased, since it felt like I had a smug bastard standing behind my back watching my every move. So I was productive 75% of the time between 11AM and 6PM yesterday. Much code was written.I was specifically beginning to work on my biggest project again: Exile. Because Exile needs to be 'finished'.I moved over most of the assets to the newer engine:
Not that you can see that there… I'm just showing off my engine's ability for nice lighting. :3Also found a couple of tracks I didn't use in the original Exile, that I'm definitely using now: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11942397/unused_track_1.mp3https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11942397/unused_track_2.mp3https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11942397/unused_track_4.mp3Not to mention that I have three new enemies with sprites sitting there from my last bit of 'work'. Anyway, on the engine front… I integrated LUA yesterday, and spent two hours last night trying to figure out why my LUA scripts where terminating whenever I called an Engine function…. Turns out I derped by making a RegisterBindings() method, and forgetting to call it. I've set the entire system up in such a way that you don't have to touch the game's main source code in order to add new entities to the game; you simple add two lines to the asset list:
# Test entity
SCRIPTEDENTITY 5 ./scripts/test/test_init.lua ./scripts/test/test_destroy.lua ./scripts/test/test_update.lua
# Editor entity.
EENT THING ./editor/eent_thing.png
Apparently, we somehow classify as 'News and Opinion' while the GMC is somehow 'Software Development'. And time on 64digits is considered 'wasteful', while time on the GMC is considered 'productive'.Fortunately for my OCD, I can change this. >:{EDIT: Fix'd
aaaaaaand now I've got rescuetime too. Thanks!
Me too
You're kidding yourself if you think 64digits is in any way productive. But yes, the gmc as "software development" is laughableI wish there was a 'bullshit' category. That's the only missing feature in this thing.
That Rescuetime thing looks interesting, I'll give it a shot.
Shoot, I'm not the only one to get it as well? :S
16:34pm, so far today I've wasted an hour doing absolutely fuck all
this thing is informative. However the fact it is tracking every single website I visit is even more unsettling than Facebook and Google's services.I tried RescueTime a few months ago just to gauge my daily productivity and, well, it's only useful if you think you're unproductive to begin with.
My problem isn't that I'm unproductive. It's that I'm productive on the wrong things.Yeah I know what you mean about how being monitored in some way increases productivity. There's no way I would have completed Cinders in time if I hadn't been recording a time-lapse. It felt like there was a healthy amount of pressure compelling me to work.
Because they are collecting all of the data for the purposes of selling it on to third-parties interested in marketing and advertising.
I hate marketers and advertisers.I try to boycott Google wherever possible but haven't found a suitable alternative for their search engine yet. Fortunately I use Ad Block so they're not exactly making money out of me.