Are you code obsessed?
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
I'm currently being pushed hard on a new project...we had a progress meeting late Friday afternoon and they want to schedule the next one (I've just been told) for early this week! :omg: Oh, you mean tomorrow? :wtf: This was the first weekend in 8 weeks that I didn't work on that project...I needed a break. :sigh: So I spent the weekend installing Win10 on a new SSD in an 8 y/o laptop for a friend. That was fun. Then I hooked up a new domain name I got last month to an Azure server that's been dormant for awhile now...might as well use it for something. That was complicated, but somehow it works. :laugh: Even after a weekend away from it, I woke up at 5AM thinking that a simple datatbase schema change could solve one of my current challenges. I then spent the rest of the morning trying to get some sleep while dualing dueling personalities presented the pros and cons of that approach in an internal debate went on for the rest of the morning. Is that obsessed? :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
I wouldn't call it obsessed. I would call it addicted. If you find that you're doing this to the exclusion of other activities you used to enjoy, then I would be concerned.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
and my own short attention span (squirrel!)
I suffer from this issue. Getting any significant work done usually takes me about twice as long, due to which I usually burn the midnight oil just to stay competitive with my peers. I wonder how have you handled yourself and if you can share some insight. Thanks.
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Not quite as much. Also you are fortunate. I have on occasion raised my arms in exaltation upon some final success.
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
I was. But I detoxed. I still love coding. But it no longer usurps my life.
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
On this site... is this a trick question? :)
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Yep! I've been out of a job for over a year, but still love coding. Woke up early and knew I wouldn't get back to sleep, so I came down before 5am and started looking at some SAT-solving code. Took a little diversion to test something out in the K language (a somewhat obscure descendant of APL). It's good to unplug periodically, but... this stuff is fun!
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Refactoring could be obsessive for me, kind of: "it works, but I really have to fix it".
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto
BTDTGTTS!
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Yeah, it happens now and then. But last time, it went a little wild, and I had to have the doctor tell me that what I experienced was stress symptoms. I was so focused, that I wasn't able to realize why i couldn't sleep, and why my heart was beating so bloody loud. Since then, I try to keep my coding within business hours.
"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr
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I started at 5 this morning. I'll log off in a couple of hours (it's currently 4PM in the UK). So yes, I get the obsession.
I think it goes with the territory. I have to admit these days I do get bored with the run of the mill stuff, but it's generally the run of the mill stuff that pays my bills. Something new and exciting comes along however, good luck in getting me out of my seat!!!!
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
When I have an issue with my development projects I will just keep at it until it is resolved. Even at 73 years of age I will keep going for a straight 8 hours trying to resolve something. Then, of course, I will sleep quite well in the evenings. Nonetheless, I code all day on my current endeavors...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
I was up 'till 3am the other night debugging an ESP32 OTA update issue. I just couldn't leave it knowing I still had something in mind that could potentially fix the problem. Thankfully I did fix it but still had enough sense left to avoid deploying it to the remote devices until I had some sleep. So yeah, it's normal. Perhaps a bit uncharitable, but I thought Python's whitespace treatment was supposed to save you from ever having ugly code. - Owen -
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Not any more - retired - and I don't miss it even a little.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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When I have an issue with my development projects I will just keep at it until it is resolved. Even at 73 years of age I will keep going for a straight 8 hours trying to resolve something. Then, of course, I will sleep quite well in the evenings. Nonetheless, I code all day on my current endeavors...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Steve Naidamast wrote:
for a straight 8 hours trying to resolve something.
I can remember going for about 24 hours one time. And that wasn't even something that I liked doing even then.
I got you beat... :) 48 hours straight to get a spreadsheet interface completed on deadline...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
It's weird how much we talk about SoC and breaking this stuff into independent microservices. Meanwhile, you literally cannot get a foundational codebase going without venturing into 23 different 'disciplines' and sorting every detail from top to bottom of the 'sample starter project'. (I'm not talking about CP.AI; I haven't played with it yet). The little I've ventured into PyTorch and NVIDIA CUDA stuff owing to the huggingface stuff... yeah I'll keep rolling my microsoftian ball up mountains for now. There's too much world in all the mostly-python-dominated ML stuff for me to feel like I can take a substantial bite. I'm already eating bakeries out of other cakes and getting Google's "go fish" graphic. Praise for the work, but I do not envy it. :)
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Yes. Everytime I use a broken website. It makes me scream
cheers Chris Maunder
This explains much. I live in Ohio in the U.S. and I've wondered what that sound was.
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I've been burning the candle at both ends fighting PyTorch, everything NVIDIA, Python, and my own short attention span (squirrel!). In updating the dashboard for CodeProject.AI I've been refactoring a bunch of truly ugly code and as these things go, you pull on a thread and you just...keep...pulling. After two consecutive nights of dreaming about the code I realised I probably should unplug for a day. Right after I fix just one more thing... So am I a little odd or does this happen to you guys occasionally? Or am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
am I just lucky to be working on something that grabs me like this?
You're lucky. Due to workforce reductions the last few years and the long development time for our products, I'm currently spending most of my time maintaining legacy stuff, little of which I wrote. This is frustrating, tedious, and boring. In one case in particular I have a profound need to find the original developer's grave and desecrate it after downing a pot of coffee. The last time I got to develop something new was back in November, and then the challenge was to implement a desired 'feature' in such a way that the customer's piss-off was minimized. I just :love: making my app do corporate CYA.
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