biethb again, with 2846365 points. biethb and mantis9900 were neck-and-neck for a while there but then biethb brought the hammer down.
I'm gratified to see that there's such a high variance in scores - a newbie scores in the thousand point range, though it doesn't take long to start earning hundreds of thousands. Only the experts get into the millions, though.
I'm disappointed to see that biethb plays without missiles. That means that missiles are just a distraction, eh? So I've buffed them - they have a larger explosive radius and, if you get a direct lock on an enemy, you get an x2 DIRECT HIT bonus. Is this grognard capture?
But I've accomplished little else this week, because I was randomized.
"Randomized" is management-speak I've heard for making a team member switch tasks so often that they can't actually finish anything. Multi-tasking is harmful.
For myself, I started looking into facebook integration; then I started looking into the framerate bug; then my daughter got sick. She's better now.
Hopefully I'll solve the framerate thing this afternoon. As soon as I do I'll post another update.
Multi-tasking often feels less optimal subjectively but it's not usually that bad. I maintain a manual written record of what I'm working on which lets me switch tasks without having to rely on my limited memory. In fact, it lets me flush my working memory, which is in itself liberating. I've found that when switching back I often bring a fresh perspective to the problem. This suggests to me that it might be more efficient to ping-pong around than grind away on a single task at a time.
Good source control helps immensely too, particularly when switching tasks within a project. I make frequent use of shelving in Perforce when switching tasks.
Posted by: Paul Sinnett | November 08, 2011 at 02:32 AM
Huh - I tend to think the opposite, that multi-tasking feels productive but then at the end of the week you realize you haven't finished anything.
This Joel-On-Software article puts it better than I could: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html
That is a good point about coming back fresh, though...
Posted by: Jamie Fristrom | November 08, 2011 at 10:10 AM