Flatballer

Those of you who program (or perhaps even more importantly, those of you who write short/small scripts or programs) how do you stop from getting sucked in?

​​​​​​I have a script I'm working on for work, doing some text conversion and plain text database manipulation stuff. I enjoy this stuff, and in particular this is small (500 lines), entirely mine, complex enough to be challenging, and has a very short feedback loop because I can run it and review results in about 5 seconds.

The short feedback loop really gets me addicted I think, plus I have no roadblocks or anything from other people. I'd rather keep working on this until I'm done instead of stopping for the evening. I realize it's a problem (and I did stop, although I might work tonight...) but even though I realize it's a problem it's a basic adrenaline, dopamine thing that's really hard to stop.

Doge

Can you make anything out of this? It is an agenda. It is designed to have the reader wonder, not understand and not think it is too wacked out.
I started coding in '84 to support magnetic calculations, then manufacturing then CAD then ... Anyway now, not much technologically is interesting unless it increases revenue.
I spit this out this morning after 3 espressos (not drinking espresso at posting time) rather than a product plan as I think philosophies are the real starting point. -Product is something repeatable that can be priced and delivered to address customer requirements.
EDIT: - I lost all the indenting when I saved it. I'll still leave it.

Services, code, hardware, methodology.

-People buy on emotion and justify by logic

Emotion – Platform, FOMO, new, New shiny, people preference

Logic – Cash, track record, low FUD

-People buy from people that they know and trust and people that understand their business.

Our wheelhouse

-People who are trustworthy

-Track Record

-Enterprise systems

-Manufacturing and distribution (process)

-Small / Medium businesses

-We know their platform

-Independent buying cycle is better

-Increasing revenue by increasing market is easier than by increasing features.

Platform adoption

-Market is increased by providing features on the customer’s preferred platform.

Platform adoption

I cut the rest.

furiousferret

Usually my code is to fix an issue or automatic an installation process. I'm usually on a timeline, so once its serviceable I just end it there. None of my stuff is customer facing so it doesn't need to be pretty. Also, 90% of my stuff is Powershell.

Flatballer

I need to learn Powershell probably. Whenever I need to glue things together I use batch files still. I've heard good things.

Doge

Do you manage Exchange?

Flatballer

No, I program/configure/update/install SCADA systems for electric utilities.

jfa100

I think what helps is drawing out a flow chart/diagram and work from there, that way you're not spending an inordinate amount of time on said program. It really is like a puzzle tho, so I can see how you could get sucked in

Flatballer

Bought a new laptop today. It'd been 5 years, and the hinges were half-broken and the webcam broke a few weeks ago, so it was time.

MSI GE75 Raider. i9-10750H, RTX-2070 (115W 8 GB refreshed version), 16 GB ram, 512 GB SSD/1TB HD, 144 hz 17.3" screen. Per-key RGB keyboard.

Compared to my existing gaming laptop it's gonna be night and day. We've come a long way in 5 years, plus I'm going up a price point, from $1000 back then to about $1500 now (although it's on sale for $1200, or will be on Thanksgiving, and Costco has price protection so I can get the difference back).

Eventually probably upgrade the RAM to 32 GB, but other than that, I'm pretty happy with the stats.

Flatballer

Our stupid monkey brains are so dumb. I've been perfectly happy with my existing laptop for years. I wasn't really toying with getting a new one, just hoping to get one for the wife soon once I can make her commit (she's using a Macbook from like 2010 to game on, it crashes constantly, it's awful, I would've thrown it through a window years ago). But since my webcam broke, I said screw it.

Now that I actually purchased one, I'm refreshing the order status on the website every 35 seconds (approximately). Costco is extraordinarily ambitious with its shipping estimate apparently. When I ordered yesterday it said "earliest delivery 11/10". It still says in the order "earliest delivery 11/10" even though it's almost 4 PM and it apparently hasn't shipped. I don't have high hopes, I'd be happy to have it Thursday honestly, but it's just funny how much I care all of a sudden.

Enthalpic

I thought you had it already.

I'd be excited too as that those specs are crazy. You will enjoy it after the first the first few days of installing...

Flatballer

It'll be here tomorrow, finally updated. Yeah, since I work from home I can sit it next to me in my office and hit a button every once in a while to install and download stuff. Also gonna under volt probably. It keeps them much quieter with basically no performance penalty.

Flatballer

Liars. Liars all of them.

UPS has updated now and doesn't show a date anymore, Costco didn't even give them the package yet supposedly. So today seems unlikely. Maybe tomorrow.... I was hoping to have a work day to fix it up before the weekend, but now I can't do that probably. Lame.

Flatballer

I had more ssd storage on my last laptop than I remembered. So I'm replacing the HDD with the 2.5 inch ssd out of my old laptop, and adding a 1TB NVME 3500 ish speed M2.

ridethecliche

Does that mean you finally have it?

Flatballer

Yep. And mostly set up. It's fast. Amazing the difference.

Flatballer

Guessing most folks on here read xkcd, but the last few have been good. Yesterday's was excellent, one of his best.

https://xkcd.com/2386/

The one from the 11th is something my wife and I keep talking about whenever we're watching stuff.

https://xkcd.com/2384/

Enthalpic

The first link is super old.

SMBC is better.

Flatballer

The first panels are old, the last few are new addition.

Enthalpic

I went a little nutty and made this. Like and follow my crap haha!

hubcyclist

has anyone ever programmed a power duration curve for a single ride? would love tips if you have, I'm revisiting my python/django project and realized what I have is totally off and giving me goofy results.

Enthalpic

Very crudely, in Excel.

I took the raw power data and calculated various moving averages over different durations (30s, 1min, 2min, 4min, 6min, 10min, 20min) and then found the maximums in each of the new smoothed data columns.

I then used those maximums when doing model fitting for the power duration curve.

Probably could be coded using a simple array easily.

hubcyclist

thanks! Makes sense to me, although my simple programming mind needs to figure out a way to program that. Should be a fun project lol

Enthalpic

https://www.kite.com/python/answers/...list-in-python
https://www.programiz.com/python-pro...s/built-in/max

hubcyclist

Success! I was already on the road of doing the pandas.rolling thing but I was off, what appears to work is a for loop which I think finds all the max averages of each iteration from 1 to the full length of the ride and puts them in a list, which I then put in another dataframe to graph

for i inrange(1, ridelength):
iw=spc2['watts'].rolling(window=i).mean().max()

Doge

I'm very excited and impatient.
Been trying to hire the best coder/architect I know of (in 35 years of hundreds of developers) for the last 2 years.
Got the hook set, now need to get him online. Got verbal's but it is complicated as he's virtual and not in the USA, although a USA citizen. We got lawyers involved.