The joy of being a programmer
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Ten of my programmer friends (including me) planned a trip to Australia. Jetstar airlines were having a great sale yesterday. When sales prices are so good you will expect the website to have increased traffic and often it is impossible to get the tickets at the discounted price. So, we wrote an application that automated the process of booking the ticket from Jetstar. I am happy to say that we got tickets at a great price. The time and effort spent on writing the application paid off. I feel so sorry for non-programmers who might have tried to manually book the tickets and failed to do so as the web site may have crashed on them. Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
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Ten of my programmer friends (including me) planned a trip to Australia. Jetstar airlines were having a great sale yesterday. When sales prices are so good you will expect the website to have increased traffic and often it is impossible to get the tickets at the discounted price. So, we wrote an application that automated the process of booking the ticket from Jetstar. I am happy to say that we got tickets at a great price. The time and effort spent on writing the application paid off. I feel so sorry for non-programmers who might have tried to manually book the tickets and failed to do so as the web site may have crashed on them. Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
I know one individual with the CG initials who will maybe laugh at that post. :laugh:
Watched code never compiles.
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Ten of my programmer friends (including me) planned a trip to Australia. Jetstar airlines were having a great sale yesterday. When sales prices are so good you will expect the website to have increased traffic and often it is impossible to get the tickets at the discounted price. So, we wrote an application that automated the process of booking the ticket from Jetstar. I am happy to say that we got tickets at a great price. The time and effort spent on writing the application paid off. I feel so sorry for non-programmers who might have tried to manually book the tickets and failed to do so as the web site may have crashed on them. Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
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Ten of my programmer friends (including me) planned a trip to Australia. Jetstar airlines were having a great sale yesterday. When sales prices are so good you will expect the website to have increased traffic and often it is impossible to get the tickets at the discounted price. So, we wrote an application that automated the process of booking the ticket from Jetstar. I am happy to say that we got tickets at a great price. The time and effort spent on writing the application paid off. I feel so sorry for non-programmers who might have tried to manually book the tickets and failed to do so as the web site may have crashed on them. Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
devj wrote:
Ten of my programmer friends (including me)
You are a programmer and you have a whole ten friends!? Suuuuuure you do.
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Ten of my programmer friends (including me) planned a trip to Australia. Jetstar airlines were having a great sale yesterday. When sales prices are so good you will expect the website to have increased traffic and often it is impossible to get the tickets at the discounted price. So, we wrote an application that automated the process of booking the ticket from Jetstar. I am happy to say that we got tickets at a great price. The time and effort spent on writing the application paid off. I feel so sorry for non-programmers who might have tried to manually book the tickets and failed to do so as the web site may have crashed on them. Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
So YOU'RE the reason I had to fight that website for 15 minutes to get flights to Soundwave ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Ten of my programmer friends (including me) planned a trip to Australia. Jetstar airlines were having a great sale yesterday. When sales prices are so good you will expect the website to have increased traffic and often it is impossible to get the tickets at the discounted price. So, we wrote an application that automated the process of booking the ticket from Jetstar. I am happy to say that we got tickets at a great price. The time and effort spent on writing the application paid off. I feel so sorry for non-programmers who might have tried to manually book the tickets and failed to do so as the web site may have crashed on them. Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
devj wrote:
Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
all the time. on of my favorites is a little app that i used to help me figure out my top 100 favorite albums. it reads album names from a file, then does a std::sort on them, where the sorting function is:
bool compareRecords(const string &a, const string &b)
{
printf(“\n \”%s\” > \”%s\” ?”, a.c_str(), b.c_str());
string yns;
cin >> yns;
return (toupper(yns.at(0))==’Y');
}so, it asks me questions of the form:
"Spoon, Kill The Moonlight" > "The Beatles, Help!" ?and i just press Y or N and it moves to the next pair. asking until it's done sorting. takes forever, but it works. -
I cheat at text-based online RPGs that way :) And at some of those "click ads for money" things that don't care about/don't notice such cheating.
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devj wrote:
Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
all the time. on of my favorites is a little app that i used to help me figure out my top 100 favorite albums. it reads album names from a file, then does a std::sort on them, where the sorting function is:
bool compareRecords(const string &a, const string &b)
{
printf(“\n \”%s\” > \”%s\” ?”, a.c_str(), b.c_str());
string yns;
cin >> yns;
return (toupper(yns.at(0))==’Y');
}so, it asks me questions of the form:
"Spoon, Kill The Moonlight" > "The Beatles, Help!" ?and i just press Y or N and it moves to the next pair. asking until it's done sorting. takes forever, but it works.Nifty, I like it. The trouble with that of course is that humans being fickle creatures won't necessary answer all the questions according to what the C++ standard requires for sorting. Therefore I officially proclaim everyone who buys Spice Girls music to have to read the entire C++ standard before they can listen to any of it. :)
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Nifty, I like it. The trouble with that of course is that humans being fickle creatures won't necessary answer all the questions according to what the C++ standard requires for sorting. Therefore I officially proclaim everyone who buys Spice Girls music to have to read the entire C++ standard before they can listen to any of it. :)
Phil Martin... wrote:
The trouble with that of course is that humans being fickle creatures won't necessary answer all the questions according to what the C++ standard requires for sorting.
nope. but the function chugs right along nevertheless.
Phil Martin... wrote:
Therefore I officially proclaim everyone who buys Spice Girls music to have to read the entire C++ standard before they can listen to any of it
cruel !
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devj wrote:
Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
all the time. on of my favorites is a little app that i used to help me figure out my top 100 favorite albums. it reads album names from a file, then does a std::sort on them, where the sorting function is:
bool compareRecords(const string &a, const string &b)
{
printf(“\n \”%s\” > \”%s\” ?”, a.c_str(), b.c_str());
string yns;
cin >> yns;
return (toupper(yns.at(0))==’Y');
}so, it asks me questions of the form:
"Spoon, Kill The Moonlight" > "The Beatles, Help!" ?and i just press Y or N and it moves to the next pair. asking until it's done sorting. takes forever, but it works.Why not have them played as mp3s and then sort on the number of plays ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Why not have them played as mp3s and then sort on the number of plays ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
that would miss plays in the car and at work. plus, i've had to rebuild my iTunes library so many times, i don't have good stats.
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Ten of my programmer friends (including me) planned a trip to Australia. Jetstar airlines were having a great sale yesterday. When sales prices are so good you will expect the website to have increased traffic and often it is impossible to get the tickets at the discounted price. So, we wrote an application that automated the process of booking the ticket from Jetstar. I am happy to say that we got tickets at a great price. The time and effort spent on writing the application paid off. I feel so sorry for non-programmers who might have tried to manually book the tickets and failed to do so as the web site may have crashed on them. Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
devj wrote:
Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
Well, there was a game I wrote a script to automate.... It was an AtariBBS (yes, BBS, pre-internet!)... we had a small little town that kept having our planets raided from Ohio, New York, Florida, and California.... So I wrote a script, gave it to everyone in town who played the game. It was real simple, it sent maximum number of agents to start political unrest on the solar system of choice, followed by the maximum number of terrorist operatives to the same solar system, then followed with an attack to steal the planets back.... Prior to the attack which run at 9600baud was quite effective in an hour's real-time game playing limit, a message was sent.... "You are about to be attacked by the SATAN script, Samuraicat's Automated Terrorist Attack Network..." (followed by a whole bunch of drivel and more acronyms) then " You have a choice: shut down your computer and stop playing, or continue and watch everything you have lost. Your choice, do it now." Unfortunately, when we all upgraded to 28800baud modems because of local seller selling to us at cost (he was also a player) -- an hours gameplay caused the crash of competing atari BBS servers all across the nation. But we managed to take half of all the planets from all the competing BBS's and bring them back to our server before the whole network collapsed under the weight of attack scripts. :-D Somewhere I am infamous. :-D
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Ten of my programmer friends (including me) planned a trip to Australia. Jetstar airlines were having a great sale yesterday. When sales prices are so good you will expect the website to have increased traffic and often it is impossible to get the tickets at the discounted price. So, we wrote an application that automated the process of booking the ticket from Jetstar. I am happy to say that we got tickets at a great price. The time and effort spent on writing the application paid off. I feel so sorry for non-programmers who might have tried to manually book the tickets and failed to do so as the web site may have crashed on them. Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
Shhhhh. Don't tell that to CG
Yusuf May I help you?
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I cheat at text-based online RPGs that way :) And at some of those "click ads for money" things that don't care about/don't notice such cheating.
harold aptroot wrote:
And at some of those "click ads for money" things that don't care about/don't notice such cheating.
Give me my adwords money back!
Wout
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harold aptroot wrote:
And at some of those "click ads for money" things that don't care about/don't notice such cheating.
Give me my adwords money back!
Wout
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Ten of my programmer friends (including me) planned a trip to Australia. Jetstar airlines were having a great sale yesterday. When sales prices are so good you will expect the website to have increased traffic and often it is impossible to get the tickets at the discounted price. So, we wrote an application that automated the process of booking the ticket from Jetstar. I am happy to say that we got tickets at a great price. The time and effort spent on writing the application paid off. I feel so sorry for non-programmers who might have tried to manually book the tickets and failed to do so as the web site may have crashed on them. Have you ever used your programming skills, outside of your job, to automate mundane tasks such as these?
The radio station to which my wife listens has "no repeat workdays" -- they don't repeat songs Mon-Fri, 8-6 (or whatever). Last spring (I think) they had a contest -- they would play a song during the morning rush hour and repeat it later in the day -- be the nth caller and win a prize! They have a Website that lists the played songs, so I wrote a simple console app to scrape the site once a minute, detect the repeat (Cthulhu-wise), and raise an alarm (internal speaker beeps). It worked well enough; there were a few false-positives and missed repeats because the Website wasn't 100% accurate. But mainly I didn't have to listen to commercial radio. X|
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Phil Martin... wrote:
The trouble with that of course is that humans being fickle creatures won't necessary answer all the questions according to what the C++ standard requires for sorting.
nope. but the function chugs right along nevertheless.
Phil Martin... wrote:
Therefore I officially proclaim everyone who buys Spice Girls music to have to read the entire C++ standard before they can listen to any of it
cruel !
...and anyone silly enough to read the entire C++ standard should be "rewarded" by having to listen to the entire Spice Girls back catalogue.
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So YOU'RE the reason I had to fight that website for 15 minutes to get flights to Soundwave ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
So Decepticons are playing concerts now?[^]
Software Zen:
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devj wrote:
Ten of my programmer friends (including me)
You are a programmer and you have a whole ten friends!? Suuuuuure you do.
so... now Imaginary friends count?
Edgar Prieto Software Engineer
