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
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.
Software Zen:
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