4E6 is nearly upon us..
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If my maths is anywhere near right the elements are going to be give out in around 18h time, huzzah!
While I've not made a huge amount of noise with regards to taking part before now I've considered doing so for the previous contests (infact my notes section on here still had an idea I threw down for 4E4 - The Four Elements of Awesome!), however time and apathy have generally put me off.
This year however I'm totally on drugs so it shouldn't be a problem.
So, yes, ok I did take onboard what Ravuya said about using sudafed for this purpose and I'm kinda hoping to use it as a stop gap until I can get something which is legal and has the same effects but is more designed for the purpose. Having already taken the drug for the reason it was advised for me to take I'm aware of the sleeping side effects, which is why I'll be limiting myself to one tablet in the morning; this gives my system time to clear the chemicals out before sleep. The addictiveness, well, that'll be a self control issue; however despite having a slightly obbessive compulsiveness about me I've never shown a tendancy for addiction so I'm not worried about it being a problem.
However, I'm not going to start throwing chemicals into my body without doing some checking up first, so I looked into "methamphetamine" and the effect it has on the body. One of the key things is does is cause a cascade of adrenaline, dopamine and noradrenaline in the brain; this'll be part of what makes amphetamines so addictive as dopamine is related to the pleasure areas of the brain.
However, a lack of dopamine can also lead to, among other things;
- Depression
- Lack of motivation
- Obbsessive tendancies
When I was taking the tablets before there was a noticable improvement in all those conditions listed, indeed the two weekends I was taking the sudafed (again, one a day in the morning) were the most productive I've been in some time.
So, right now I'm thinking the positive aspects of a limited dosage are going to out weight any negative aspects; however I do need to find out what dangers there are in prolonged usage for which, yes, I will be consulting a doctor or at the very least a pharmacist.
Anyways, my newly aquired drug habit aside, work this week hasn't been a world of fun thus far and I've only done 5h or so.
Basically I get in today with very little todo as I'd not had an email from my boss regarding an issue I'd brought up at the end of last week, so I just defaulted to working on the invoicing software (which was the reason I was taken on in the first place).
About 1:30pm, just as I finished lunch, my boss appears with his lunch and while he eat he explains to me that;
a) we are dropping the database backend I'd been working with for the invoicing and going back to flat files
b) The key gen stuff I spent ages on getting right wasn't required.
Point 'a' was down to a dislike of relying on an access database backend; well fine, mildly annoying as I'd just got things working sweetly with the Borland ADO stuff, so I've backed that up and restore an older pre-data driven version. It wasn't a total waste of time as I've learn aload of stuff which will be useful for another project apprently (ah, that'll be the sound of an extended contract then as my current one offically runs out on the 7th of October).
Point 'b' was down to him giving me bad information;
I was told we needed a key which could be emailed out and copy and pasted into a box to validate a product.
So, some hacking about later and one reasonably evil key generation routine has been created which outputs a 128 character key which looks like random junk.
Unfortunately it turns out the key needs to be human typeable as it'll be going on CD cases.
Yeah.
So, he knocked up a new simple key gen system and I effectively got paid GBP120 for nothing. He was applogising to me for not using my system, however it was fun to work on and I got paid for it so I'm not really that fussed [grin]
So, tomorrow I'm going to continue my C++'ing the invoice software code; my boss wrote it initally however it isn't very idiomatic C++ at all... there are also 'new's without 'delete's. When questioned on this he seemed to think C++ had garbage collection. Now, he uses C mostly and has done some C# so I think it's some confusion over the use of 'new'; he also does alot of C with classes stuff and tends to make everything a class regards of if it has state or not (where as I favour namspaces).
So, yeah... this'll be fun.
4E6 will be a nice counter point to work tomorrow I think.
Oh, and I've finally got my arse in gear and have got a box for returning my 500gig hard drive, so I'll be doing that friday (it's only been 2 months since I got the RMA number,so ya know, not that slow...).
While I've not made a huge amount of noise with regards to taking part before now I've considered doing so for the previous contests (infact my notes section on here still had an idea I threw down for 4E4 - The Four Elements of Awesome!), however time and apathy have generally put me off.
This year however I'm totally on drugs so it shouldn't be a problem.
So, yes, ok I did take onboard what Ravuya said about using sudafed for this purpose and I'm kinda hoping to use it as a stop gap until I can get something which is legal and has the same effects but is more designed for the purpose. Having already taken the drug for the reason it was advised for me to take I'm aware of the sleeping side effects, which is why I'll be limiting myself to one tablet in the morning; this gives my system time to clear the chemicals out before sleep. The addictiveness, well, that'll be a self control issue; however despite having a slightly obbessive compulsiveness about me I've never shown a tendancy for addiction so I'm not worried about it being a problem.
However, I'm not going to start throwing chemicals into my body without doing some checking up first, so I looked into "methamphetamine" and the effect it has on the body. One of the key things is does is cause a cascade of adrenaline, dopamine and noradrenaline in the brain; this'll be part of what makes amphetamines so addictive as dopamine is related to the pleasure areas of the brain.
However, a lack of dopamine can also lead to, among other things;
- Depression
- Lack of motivation
- Obbsessive tendancies
When I was taking the tablets before there was a noticable improvement in all those conditions listed, indeed the two weekends I was taking the sudafed (again, one a day in the morning) were the most productive I've been in some time.
So, right now I'm thinking the positive aspects of a limited dosage are going to out weight any negative aspects; however I do need to find out what dangers there are in prolonged usage for which, yes, I will be consulting a doctor or at the very least a pharmacist.
Anyways, my newly aquired drug habit aside, work this week hasn't been a world of fun thus far and I've only done 5h or so.
Basically I get in today with very little todo as I'd not had an email from my boss regarding an issue I'd brought up at the end of last week, so I just defaulted to working on the invoicing software (which was the reason I was taken on in the first place).
About 1:30pm, just as I finished lunch, my boss appears with his lunch and while he eat he explains to me that;
a) we are dropping the database backend I'd been working with for the invoicing and going back to flat files
b) The key gen stuff I spent ages on getting right wasn't required.
Point 'a' was down to a dislike of relying on an access database backend; well fine, mildly annoying as I'd just got things working sweetly with the Borland ADO stuff, so I've backed that up and restore an older pre-data driven version. It wasn't a total waste of time as I've learn aload of stuff which will be useful for another project apprently (ah, that'll be the sound of an extended contract then as my current one offically runs out on the 7th of October).
Point 'b' was down to him giving me bad information;
I was told we needed a key which could be emailed out and copy and pasted into a box to validate a product.
So, some hacking about later and one reasonably evil key generation routine has been created which outputs a 128 character key which looks like random junk.
Unfortunately it turns out the key needs to be human typeable as it'll be going on CD cases.
Yeah.
So, he knocked up a new simple key gen system and I effectively got paid GBP120 for nothing. He was applogising to me for not using my system, however it was fun to work on and I got paid for it so I'm not really that fussed [grin]
So, tomorrow I'm going to continue my C++'ing the invoice software code; my boss wrote it initally however it isn't very idiomatic C++ at all... there are also 'new's without 'delete's. When questioned on this he seemed to think C++ had garbage collection. Now, he uses C mostly and has done some C# so I think it's some confusion over the use of 'new'; he also does alot of C with classes stuff and tends to make everything a class regards of if it has state or not (where as I favour namspaces).
So, yeah... this'll be fun.
4E6 will be a nice counter point to work tomorrow I think.
Oh, and I've finally got my arse in gear and have got a box for returning my 500gig hard drive, so I'll be doing that friday (it's only been 2 months since I got the RMA number,so ya know, not that slow...).
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