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ken were you at work all night (again)? i just got to work a little while ago.
ken were you at work all night (again)? i just got to work a little while ago.
THe NAC Lots-O-BFG KO2 Thread
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Ken I found those bolts I was missing. We'll have to figure out something on the cruise switch.
Ken I found those bolts I was missing. We'll have to figure out something on the cruise switch.
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Anthony - yeah. Soon as I'm done with this crap this time around I'm polishing up my resume, already started and found a couple positions that look like a lot of fun nearby. I've never had code give me this kind of trouble before, I literally can compare line by line and show that they are exactly the same except for the variable names and my version... won't compile.
Bump - ah ok, glad you found em. I might be heading down to Crown and Everett's sometime Saturday, are you gonna be around?
Anthony - yeah. Soon as I'm done with this crap this time around I'm polishing up my resume, already started and found a couple positions that look like a lot of fun nearby. I've never had code give me this kind of trouble before, I literally can compare line by line and show that they are exactly the same except for the variable names and my version... won't compile.
Bump - ah ok, glad you found em. I might be heading down to Crown and Everett's sometime Saturday, are you gonna be around?
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I got here at 7:30...this is the earliest I've probably ever been here.
For some dumb reason I was able to actually get up at 6 am.
I got here at 7:30...this is the earliest I've probably ever been here.
For some dumb reason I was able to actually get up at 6 am.
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As an Irish man once told me, "Feck that." (He really did tell me that.)
As an Irish man once told me, "Feck that." (He really did tell me that.)
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I've gotten in at 7 once or twice... but not on a regular basis. When I wake up that early, I show up covered in grease at 9 because I went to the junkyard in between.
This crap just has to work for a 2pm meeting - it probably won't, but I'm going to keep bashing my head on it till then. If it won't work, I want to have a lot of experiments done showing why it won't so the guy can fix it. Soon as I present what I've gotten done and why it won't work, I'm going home.
I've gotten in at 7 once or twice... but not on a regular basis. When I wake up that early, I show up covered in grease at 9 because I went to the junkyard in between.
This crap just has to work for a 2pm meeting - it probably won't, but I'm going to keep bashing my head on it till then. If it won't work, I want to have a lot of experiments done showing why it won't so the guy can fix it. Soon as I present what I've gotten done and why it won't work, I'm going home.
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Damn that BLOWS.
I don't think I'd have the patience for that.
Hell I get pissed off when I have to force our radios to BPSK1 and deal with 160Kbps throughput due to interference....I'd die if I had to code.
Damn that BLOWS.
I don't think I'd have the patience for that.
Hell I get pissed off when I have to force our radios to BPSK1 and deal with 160Kbps throughput due to interference....I'd die if I had to code.
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I don't even like writing this code... it's code that gets fed into a precompiler and then becomes something that gets compiled and fed to other tools. I want to design hardware and maybe write software that makes it do things, not this kind of stuff. Ah well...
I especially despise stuff that would end up on thedailywtf.com. This precompiler thing could be a feature article. I have my doubts it's even going to solve the problem at hand, while it's kind of a neat idea it's making my life harder than solving the problem the old way did.
So anyways... enough complaining :roflmao: assuming my unit bearings are still on the front porch and haven't been stolen yet, I'm installing them this afternoon and hopefully it will get rid of the terrible grinding and vibrations I get at highway speed and perhaps improve the death wobble a bit.
I don't even like writing this code... it's code that gets fed into a precompiler and then becomes something that gets compiled and fed to other tools. I want to design hardware and maybe write software that makes it do things, not this kind of stuff. Ah well...
I especially despise stuff that would end up on thedailywtf.com. This precompiler thing could be a feature article. I have my doubts it's even going to solve the problem at hand, while it's kind of a neat idea it's making my life harder than solving the problem the old way did.
So anyways... enough complaining :roflmao: assuming my unit bearings are still on the front porch and haven't been stolen yet, I'm installing them this afternoon and hopefully it will get rid of the terrible grinding and vibrations I get at highway speed and perhaps improve the death wobble a bit.
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i don't mind writing code that requires intelligently crafted algorithms, but i hade code that does big dumb operations that a monkey could do.
i don't mind writing code that requires intelligently crafted algorithms, but i hade code that does big dumb operations that a monkey could do.
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This code is a framework for something I can't really talk about. Essentially what it aims to do is make it simpler to implement system tests in a more structured manner. What it ends up accomplishing is reimplementing the language it was written in, but missing some features and making writing the system tests infinitely more frustrating, complicated, and clumsy.
This code is a framework for something I can't really talk about. Essentially what it aims to do is make it simpler to implement system tests in a more structured manner. What it ends up accomplishing is reimplementing the language it was written in, but missing some features and making writing the system tests infinitely more frustrating, complicated, and clumsy.
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I'd be willing to bet it has to do with SOA.
I'd be willing to bet it has to do with SOA.
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A spring over axle? :dunce:
You're sorta correct, for what it's worth. I thought I had put a wooden stake through the heart of the whole plan a few weeks ago when I explained some of this, but I guess not. Maybe today's meeting will be the one...
The worst part is that I know the guy who came up with it. He's a very smart guy, a good friend of mine from previous work (when I was an intern here actually), it's just not quite the right way to go about solving this problem and I hate being the one who delivers that kind of news. I'm hoping I can show that half of the thing is a disaster at a time so he can fix it half at a time like george washington's hatchet, so no one has to admit that it was completely utterly disastrous and we still get something that works and isn't hell to use. I don't really want to be around for the aftermath though.
A spring over axle? :dunce:
You're sorta correct, for what it's worth. I thought I had put a wooden stake through the heart of the whole plan a few weeks ago when I explained some of this, but I guess not. Maybe today's meeting will be the one...
The worst part is that I know the guy who came up with it. He's a very smart guy, a good friend of mine from previous work (when I was an intern here actually), it's just not quite the right way to go about solving this problem and I hate being the one who delivers that kind of news. I'm hoping I can show that half of the thing is a disaster at a time so he can fix it half at a time like george washington's hatchet, so no one has to admit that it was completely utterly disastrous and we still get something that works and isn't hell to use. I don't really want to be around for the aftermath though.
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Yeah I just know IBM is big into that stuff. I know a few guys who are meddling with it here.
Could be good, could be bad. All depends on implementation I guess? I don't know a whole heck of a lot about it.
Yeah I just know IBM is big into that stuff. I know a few guys who are meddling with it here.
Could be good, could be bad. All depends on implementation I guess? I don't know a whole heck of a lot about it.
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They can be a real great thing if they are implemented properly.
If they are implemented badly though... take cover, and avoid knowing anything about them, because you will end up working on them.
If the problem they're trying to solve is well defined and pretty narrow scoped you can come up with a very nice SOA that makes everyone happy. If the problem is ill defined, misunderstood, or too wide open, the system has to be so flexible that it ends up with the "inner platform effect"... a sufficiently flexible platform ends up reimplementing the architecture it was built with, badly. This is what I am struggling with.
For instance, say someone gets the bright idea to put the code that accesses the database all in one spot in the codebase, and reuse it on another project with the same database. If both projects are fairly close, say a web interface for a parts ordering system and a desktop based application for company reps to use while setting up orders for people over the phone, this is a great idea. But if some wiseass decides it's a good idea to make the parts ordering system and the employee phonebook use the same database, and make the database layer "flexible" enough to handle either one, well, gee, someone just reimplemented a database table querying system within the database access layer.
They can be a real great thing if they are implemented properly.
If they are implemented badly though... take cover, and avoid knowing anything about them, because you will end up working on them.
If the problem they're trying to solve is well defined and pretty narrow scoped you can come up with a very nice SOA that makes everyone happy. If the problem is ill defined, misunderstood, or too wide open, the system has to be so flexible that it ends up with the "inner platform effect"... a sufficiently flexible platform ends up reimplementing the architecture it was built with, badly. This is what I am struggling with.
For instance, say someone gets the bright idea to put the code that accesses the database all in one spot in the codebase, and reuse it on another project with the same database. If both projects are fairly close, say a web interface for a parts ordering system and a desktop based application for company reps to use while setting up orders for people over the phone, this is a great idea. But if some wiseass decides it's a good idea to make the parts ordering system and the employee phonebook use the same database, and make the database layer "flexible" enough to handle either one, well, gee, someone just reimplemented a database table querying system within the database access layer.
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. But yeah, I feel like I might have to re-learn alot of what I once knew. Should be easy this time around but still. I would love to get in a technical position where I was actually making something work rather than analyzing text files and using DMMs to try and figure out why they don't work (and then spending the majority of my time dealing with all the sales/political BS that comes with it.) I feel like a tech could do the 'technical' portion of my job (if you want to call it that), a lot of it is cut and paste the same thing one day into another. It's dealing with the customer and being the first line of defense/communication between the customer & our engineering teams that is where it gets more dificult and even more boring.
If Bump won't be around on Sat I can probably meet him tomorrow after work (if that's better for him) or possibly even later tonight.. and meet you at Everetts on sat since I planned on heading there anyway.
Yeah, I get in at 6 once in a while, but not on a regular basis... the difference is that I'm pretty sure you pull all-nighters more frequently than I come in at 6AM :banghead:
I would love to do some low level coding, I really kinda enjoy it... my problem is that for the past 2 years I have done essentially nothing with code at any level (well I wrote some excel macros... but those don't count :gee
. But yeah, I feel like I might have to re-learn alot of what I once knew. Should be easy this time around but still. I would love to get in a technical position where I was actually making something work rather than analyzing text files and using DMMs to try and figure out why they don't work (and then spending the majority of my time dealing with all the sales/political BS that comes with it.) I feel like a tech could do the 'technical' portion of my job (if you want to call it that), a lot of it is cut and paste the same thing one day into another. It's dealing with the customer and being the first line of defense/communication between the customer & our engineering teams that is where it gets more dificult and even more boring.
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This is either my third or fourth allnighter in the last year. It's not really THAT frequent, hell, in college I did an allnighter every week just for shits and giggles. Last July I was doing 12 hour days and enjoying it because it was hour upon hour of solving interesting problems and debugging the failures that resulted from running my experimental code.
The damn code I'm working with is going to drive me to drink though.
Oh, no caffeine either. Caffeine is for the weak!
This is either my third or fourth allnighter in the last year. It's not really THAT frequent, hell, in college I did an allnighter every week just for shits and giggles. Last July I was doing 12 hour days and enjoying it because it was hour upon hour of solving interesting problems and debugging the failures that resulted from running my experimental code.
The damn code I'm working with is going to drive me to drink though.
Oh, no caffeine either. Caffeine is for the weak!
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Yeah so anyway after that exciting read I'm going to go to work now. If your interested I'm going to take a long ride there, flick some switches, take some readings and twiddle my thumbs but no code.
Oh and Ken I sjould be around as Im trying to finish the TJ up and I'm actually making progress and dont want to stop.
Oh and Im in at 7am everyday but Im out at 3pm, so it works for me.
Yeah so anyway after that exciting read I'm going to go to work now. If your interested I'm going to take a long ride there, flick some switches, take some readings and twiddle my thumbs but no code.
Oh and Ken I sjould be around as Im trying to finish the TJ up and I'm actually making progress and dont want to stop.
Oh and Im in at 7am everyday but Im out at 3pm, so it works for me.
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Awesome. I know the feeling on progress, once you get on a roll, don't stop till it's done.
6 hours till I get the hell out of here...
Awesome. I know the feeling on progress, once you get on a roll, don't stop till it's done.
6 hours till I get the hell out of here...
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If work requires me to ever pull an all nighter, that's too frequent. :conceited
If work requires me to ever pull an all nighter, that's too frequent. :conceited
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I have noooo idea what any of that computer mumbo jumbo means. If my computer doesnt work right I unplug it and walk away for a few hours. Usually when I come back it kinda works again.
I have noooo idea what any of that computer mumbo jumbo means. If my computer doesnt work right I unplug it and walk away for a few hours. Usually when I come back it kinda works again.
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