I watched American Sniper last night and just before that I got a stubbon C++ program to compile/link against a static library. I ended up just recreating everything instead of trying to figure out why it was not linking-up together as it should have done. That was quite frustrating.
I'm developing something similar to https://github.com/stumathews/stulibc but for C++ because I'm currently reading up about game architecture and design and most material is in C++. This is mostly because you can design quite nicely in C++ in terms of abstracting the complexities of systems. That being said, you can also wrap yourself knee-deep in complexity trying to abstract the complexity. That's a true criticism I guess of most things but C++ makes it easier.
It far too broad a dialect. I've rarely used more than a handful of features and in most cases its reall just been C with OOP because that's where C++ shines. I'm looking forward to flesh-out my design strategy so far which is A simple game engine architecture. I've always been a fan however of C and should get back to writing an interface to some electronic project via the Linux kernel at some point. I'll get there.
I also went to gym this morning, the sun gets up in the sky so early in summer that it forced me to wake up at 05:30 today and I figured I'd get in some work done before heading out the the airport. I've had a good couple of runs/workouts recently in-spite of working in the City again, though now I've started to run home again too. I'm really a Creature of trend and once I've got a pattern I latch on like a carp.
My next week it set to look somewhat like this: LEGOLAND, Shrek's Adventure, London Eye, Prince Edward Theatre, Harrods , Disney Store, Disney Cafe, H&M, and Party Shops.
More outings in a week than I've done in a year.
I've also recently realised that I don't have bath plugs, so I'm going out to go buy some. I don't usually have a bath, but now that I know that I can't, my priorities have changed.
Started reading about construction recently, took out a book about what's involved and its pretty interesting. Its this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Construction-Mathematics-Surinder-Virdi/dp/0750667923 and I need more time to work on the examples If I'm going to get anything out of it.
I got interested in the science behind construction while reading a book about how to reduce the complexities of modern science through the simple checklist.
The author had visited a civil engineering company next to his hospital(he is a surgeon) as he wanted to know how they dealt with the complexities of standing up huge buildings.
These construction sites sometimes seem like a haphazard-like setup however for me whats more interesting is the trust engineers and designers have in concepts like weight-distribution, strength and ratios that ensure things don't collapse. Its simple to think that pythagoras, volume and various geometrical and arithmetic concepts are the domain of the class-room when they in fact save lives and enable extremely awe-inspiring feats in construction.
Right, bath plugs...