[astonecipher]

Half day today, leaving in 30 minutes for an amniocentesis appointment. I need more positive, and more conclusive results than what we received initially....

[NeoTifa]

Best of luck, astonecipher

[modi123_1]

F'n DB name changes. Seriously.. gotta stop doing this.

[BenignDesign]

Made two major breakthroughs in my coding nightmare this morning. So... whee! Not bad for a Wednesday so far.

[BetaWar]

Started off the day with "I am going to test this and ensure it is rock-solid!". 8 hours later... "I almost got the base stuff set up to start testing...". The good news is that I have found some places we can get local development environments improved significantly. The bad news is that I am on PTO tomorrow and Friday, and we are supposed to ship on Friday. So someone else is going to have to pick up the testing I had hoped to do.

[BenignDesign]

When you're learning a new language, do you find it more helpful to start with small projects and build up your knowledge toward a larger project, or dive head-first into an obscenely complicated piece of software and drive yourself to drink from the pressure of a looming deadline with a language you barely grasp? Asking for a friend.

[macosxnerd101]

Yes.

[DarenR]

BenignDesign, on 11 July 2019 - 07:56 AM, said:

When you're learning a new language, do you find it more helpful to start with small projects and build up your knowledge toward a larger project, or dive head-first into an obscenely complicated piece of software and drive yourself to drink from the pressure of a looming deadline with a language you barely grasp? Asking for a friend.

why learn when you can just "gimme da codes"

but normally i like reading it a bit then either full dive or skim dive

[jon.kiparsky]

BenignDesign, on 11 July 2019 - 06:56 AM, said:

When you're learning a new language, do you find it more helpful to start with small projects and build up your knowledge toward a larger project, or dive head-first into an obscenely complicated piece of software and drive yourself to drink from the pressure of a looming deadline with a language you barely grasp? Asking for a friend.

I usually find it most helpful to start with good intentions, work through the intro tutorials and hello world exercises, then - and this is the key step - I like to get distracted and lose the thread and spend the rest of my life meaning to come back to it.

[astonecipher]

So, I have an Amazon SDE assessment waiting in my inbox that I am psyching myself out of. I don't have time to study for it this week, much less take it. And the fact that I was told to study for it makes it more daunting in my head.

Wife had the procedure yesterday, now to wait 7-10 days for the results.


Today will consist of testing out a new PLC instance and working more on the legacy system service; I should be able to start making calls and seeing what errors I get back because of the data...

[modi123_1]

@b9 - I have a usual checklist of "basic functionality" I try and zero in on. Display, loops, DB interaction (if that's even a thing). Then with the bare signpost go do what ever stupid deadline I have to do.

[h4nnib4l]

I like to find out that I'm going to need to learn something, then take jon's advice and get distracted and keep meaning to come back to it, and then have the giant, soul-crushing project land in my lap and split time between all-nighters and fighting the urge to just give up on being useful and develop a heroin habit.

This post has been edited by h4nnib4l: 11 July 2019 - 09:27 AM

[modi123_1]

Now pushing five days behind schedule of getting any of my actual work-work done while babysitting the copious amounts of errors from the db server change.

I am frustrated, worn out, and trying really really hard not to jump down the DBA folks' throats.. but this is what I get when I believe what I am told that "totally mirrored all the settings and and permissions.. so this should be an easy transition". I mean I have yet to NOT be burned by that fairy tale belief.. like.. ever.. so shame on me, but come on people.

[Skydiver]

Trust, but verify...

[ArtificialSoldier]

I swear to god, every single time I think "this list doesn't need a paging toolbar, there won't be that much there" it backfires.

We have a feature to add access codes, so people signing up enter an access code and get put in a certain user group. You can even say how many users can use an access code, so there's no reason to have that many codes, right? The state of AZ has created over 20 million access codes. One individual user group has over 11 million. The population of Arizona is a little over 7 million, FYI. And the system only has 100k total users, but apparently they're expecting 20 million more?

Or, sorry, there's 20 million access codes, but each could be for multiple users. So according to MySQL they're expecting 397,150,141 additional people to register apparently. So that's all of the US and the UK. Plus Finland or something.

Also, Windows 10 really sucks at handling the situation where an application, let's just say Firefox, has decided that it needs about 10 GB of RAM out of the 4GB total on the system. That needed a hard reboot.