corona-13 working and then attempted recompile with GLFW

21 days ago
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You will notice I pick up software to get working, attempt to alter it, and then leave it for weeks. I've learned from 10 hour struggle sessions trying to get code working all at once that most times it's unproductive.

I got corona-13 compiling with gcc rather than clang in about 20 minutes. After finding the coders laziness in the makefiles.

Then I decided to try to rework it with GLFW only to find he hadn't got that working in his code base. I tried surgery and stopped when I got to a comprehension limit, I need to read more of his code it's not a quick fix since he didn't do the work necessary.

I try to live by the military credo: reinforce success not failure.

Rather, I let my brain percolate on a problem after a break and come back to it when I've had an epiphany or a eureka moment. Maybe days, maybe weeks.

The exception was when my girlfriend had a myxoma and I was preoccupied for 4 months.

Coding after someone else is not easy and not quick because most people don't leave it in a reasonable state, mainly through a lack of effort to round out what they did. An indicator of a "cram and dump" mentality.

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