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Stick Insect: Oct 24, 2010; My enemies are many.

My equals are none.

Corla Plankun posted:

but i will be the first to admit that this solution sucks for a person who cares about being able to copy and paste between two computers

yeah. But I'm also too lazy to take my hands off the keyboard.

I figured I had an old laptop (so there was a kboard & touchpad already there) that would make a nice "extra screen".

# ? Apr 8, 2016 11:16

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 21:45

Vanadium: Jan 8, 2005

i mean, if you have a solution to use the delphi5 debugger that doesn't involve a windows 2000 vm, I'm all ears

# ? Apr 8, 2016 11:44

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

a windows me vm

# ? Apr 8, 2016 12:36

Satellit3: Oct 21, 2008

jony ive aces posted:

a windows me vm

# ? Apr 8, 2016 13:39

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

Vanadium posted:

i mean, if you have a solution to use the delphi5 debugger that doesn't involve a windows 2000 vm, I'm all ears

don't use Delphi 5

# ? Apr 8, 2016 14:02

Vanadium: Jan 8, 2005

don't think that's gonna go over well with our deadlines for functionality for this delphi5-based product

# ? Apr 8, 2016 14:49

Enderzero: Jun 19, 2001; The snowflake button makes it
cold cold cold
Set temperature makes it
hold hold hold

Vanadium posted:

don't think that's gonna go over well with our deadlines for functionality for this delphi5-based product

he was nicely saying get a new job

# ? Apr 8, 2016 15:27

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

When bloody is toolchain-shaming you, your workflow is incredibly bad

# ? Apr 8, 2016 20:35

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

hey i have one click build and deploy all it took was:
one batch script
three invocations of msbuild
two invocations of custom fpga tool
custom fpga tool auto-generates tcl scripts from hdl sources
fpga tool runs fpga ide with auto-generated scripts
fpga ide auto-generates scripts from those scripts
fpga ide runs a series of sub-tools with its auto-generated scripts
hardware devices get programmed

i think it may even work on a computer other than just this one golden computer it was all built on too if you install around 20 gigabytes of dependencies and somehow get their licenses all configured correctly

# ? Apr 8, 2016 21:57

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

this is a huge step forward too. being able to only version control the hdl source files and none of the mystery project files for this fpga toolchain is something not previously accomplished here

# ? Apr 8, 2016 21:59

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

# ? Apr 9, 2016 15:10

Vanadium: Jan 8, 2005

Bloody posted:

hey i have one click build and deploy all it took was:

My workflow in theory from the IDE to a customer's production environment can look something like this:

Copy binary from VM to the product's main network share. Use our in-house installation of the product to mark the binary as released. Copy it from the dir for released binaries to a customer-specific dir where a separate program looks for it. Checkbox all the involved files, maybe write up some quick .sql files to perform schema updates, and checkbox the customer-specific staging env/db. Press button, optionally (manually) test in the customer-specific environment.

Call someone at the customer's office and be like "hey we gotta update a thing, can i teamviewer on your desktop. great, thanks". Do that and transfer files, run the same thing again this time copying things to the customer's network's drive w/ our product on it and the production db. In the worst case, start up the production instance of our product, log in with the developer account (while the person i called is probably watching) and configure where in the menu tree the newly installed module shows up and who is allowed to run it.

Exit teamviewer and reconsider life choices.

# ? Apr 9, 2016 17:34

Breakfast All Day: Oct 21, 2004

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

i use a yubikey with my SSH key on it that self destructs if you get the PIN wrong 3 times and it makes me feel like im in the future

i have a yubikey on my keychain for years that i have never used. not once. it's like a rabbits foot but instead a constant reminder of my failure to follow through on anything

# ? Apr 9, 2016 23:38

compuserved: Mar 20, 2006; Nap Ghost

Breakfast All Day posted:

i have a yubikey on my keychain for years that i have never used. not once. it's like a rabbits foot but instead a constant reminder of my failure to follow through on anything

same

# ? Apr 10, 2016 15:45

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

i store my keepass database and private key next to each other in dropbox

# ? Apr 10, 2016 16:02

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

Bloody posted:

i store my keepass database and private key next to each other in dropbox

# ? Apr 10, 2016 17:08

Plank Walker: Aug 11, 2005

we have a bamboo build server but we don't actually ever use the builds it outputs. it's only there to let us know if the build broke, and 99% of the times the build breaks is because it uses an old rear end C# compiler so we have to type

code:

 jimmies.Rustled += new EventHandler(jimmies_rustled);

instead of

code:

jimmies.Rustled += jimmies_rustled;

our actual deployment process is doing a clean checkout, building it, and copying the bin folder. every couple of weeks i'm like, let's fix this but the guy who maintains it is like :effort:

also we've been using jira for years and i finally got the team to start putting issues in. our previous way of creating version changelogs was to look at the svn logs (lol) and handwriting a word doc

# ? Apr 10, 2016 19:00

AWWNAW: Dec 30, 2008

I use source tree

sometimes I branch

force pushed a few times. I ain't proud

# ? Apr 10, 2016 22:23

Boner Buffet: Feb 16, 2006

to be fair, doing work on computers is horrid and after 15 years you will realize it and watch car review vids on youtube instead

# ? Apr 11, 2016 00:23

StarkingBarfish: Jun 25, 2006; Novus Ordo Seclorum

Our batch submission system is constantly overloaded and I like checking the output of stuff I'm working on, so I have a bash script that opens a screen session on a node in the cluster and submits interactive jobs by opening a new window in screen, sshing into another node and running my job script.

code:

screen -AdmS myshell -t ctrl bash

nodes=(007 008 009 010 011 019 013 014 015 017 018)

for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
do
screen -S myshell -X screen -t tab$i ssh node${nodes[$i]} "cd path/to/workdir; ./run_jobcontrol.sh ${i}";
done

nodes is a bunch of interactive nodes on the cluster that I know aren't under heavy load. I am a bad person.

# ? Apr 11, 2016 08:35

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

Boner Buffet posted:

to be fair, doing work on computers is horrid and after 15 years you will realize it and watch car review vids on youtube instead

this but 3 years and post on a funny computer forum

# ? Apr 11, 2016 14:50

du -hast: Mar 12, 2003; BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT GENTOO

StarkingBarfish posted:

Our batch submission system is constantly overloaded and I like checking the output of stuff I'm working on, so I have a bash script that opens a screen session on a node in the cluster and submits interactive jobs by opening a new window in screen, sshing into another node and running my job script.
code:
screen -AdmS myshell -t ctrl bash

nodes=(007 008 009 010 011 019 013 014 015 017 018)

for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
do
screen -S myshell -X screen -t tab$i ssh node${nodes[$i]} "cd path/to/workdir; ./run_jobcontrol.sh ${i}";
done
nodes is a bunch of interactive nodes on the cluster that I know aren't under heavy load. I am a bad person.

# ? Apr 11, 2016 16:48

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

Bloody posted:

this but 3 years and post on a funny computer forum

# ? Apr 16, 2016 16:20

Baxate: Feb 1, 2011

i use a magic mouse with natural scrolling and vim bindings in intellij, so nobody who pairs with me can use my computer :shrug:

# ? Apr 16, 2016 16:38

Progressive JPEG: Feb 19, 2003

same except kinesis advantage set to dvorak

# ? Apr 16, 2016 18:56

Who Is Paul Blart: Oct 22, 2010

fart into my awaiting mouth

# ? Apr 16, 2016 21:05

Who Is Paul Blart: Oct 22, 2010

sorry wrong thread

# ? Apr 16, 2016 21:05

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

yeah that sounds like a straightforward workflow

# ? Apr 16, 2016 22:47

hackbunny: Jul 22, 2007; I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

Firstly, I don't use any desk. I find them distracting. My 2015 Macbook Retina Pro and two Dell U2913WM 29" monitors are suspended from the ceiling using a pulley system. This way I can perfectly adjust the pitch and yaw of the screen as well as its vertical and horizontal distance to find the optimal point.
For a while I also was suspending myself in order to relieve tension on my back but I found it was a bit of hassle getting in and out of the harness so instead I use a stair-stepping machine as my "chair." It keeps me active and gets the blood flowing.
My "keyboard": I use two ergonomic chorded keyers as these give me amazing wrist flexibility. It took me a while to adjust but now I'm averaging around 150 WPM with them. I custom built my own sensor rig so I could do gesturing with them as well - was a pain, but worth it. And since the use case is limited to me, I was able to make things easier but just having it detect a certain color blob (in this case, bright hot pink) which is the color of the coding gloves I wear. Insane accuracy with that setup. I got emacs to play nice with the gesture control too so running a macro is literally as easy as a handwave.
I do enjoy listening to music while I work. I have a wireless headphone setup which syncs with my EKG readout to automatically determine the kind of mood I am and what music would work best for my mental space. I don't use spotify, I've built my own streaming service which pulls from my arch media server at home so I can listen to everything in FLAC. Mostly a mix of live Grateful Dead shows from 70-74 but also remixes of bird songs, free jazz, and intelligence-boosting drone tapes.
I work 20 hours a day, usually from 6:30pm to 2pm. I use melanin and mugwort to regulate my sleeping cycles so although I only get around 4 hours of sleep, it's always deep REM so I wake up feeling refreshed and ready to crush code.

# ? Apr 17, 2016 01:35

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

hackbunny posted:

Firstly, I don't use any desk. I find them distracting. My 2015 Macbook Retina Pro and two Dell U2913WM 29" monitors are suspended from the ceiling using a pulley system. This way I can perfectly adjust the pitch and yaw of the screen as well as its vertical and horizontal distance to find the optimal point.
For a while I also was suspending myself in order to relieve tension on my back but I found it was a bit of hassle getting in and out of the harness so instead I use a stair-stepping machine as my "chair." It keeps me active and gets the blood flowing.
My "keyboard": I use two ergonomic chorded keyers as these give me amazing wrist flexibility. It took me a while to adjust but now I'm averaging around 150 WPM with them. I custom built my own sensor rig so I could do gesturing with them as well - was a pain, but worth it. And since the use case is limited to me, I was able to make things easier but just having it detect a certain color blob (in this case, bright hot pink) which is the color of the coding gloves I wear. Insane accuracy with that setup. I got emacs to play nice with the gesture control too so running a macro is literally as easy as a handwave.
I do enjoy listening to music while I work. I have a wireless headphone setup which syncs with my EKG readout to automatically determine the kind of mood I am and what music would work best for my mental space. I don't use spotify, I've built my own streaming service which pulls from my arch media server at home so I can listen to everything in FLAC. Mostly a mix of live Grateful Dead shows from 70-74 but also remixes of bird songs, free jazz, and intelligence-boosting drone tapes.
I work 20 hours a day, usually from 6:30pm to 2pm. I use melanin and mugwort to regulate my sleeping cycles so although I only get around 4 hours of sleep, it's always deep REM so I wake up feeling refreshed and ready to crush code.

source 'em

# ? Apr 17, 2016 01:39

Satellit3: Oct 21, 2008

hackbunny posted:

I work 20 hours a day, usually from 6:30pm to 2pm. I use melanin and mugwort to regulate my sleeping cycles so although I only get around 4 hours of sleep, it's always deep REM so I wake up feeling refreshed and ready to crush code.

lmbo

# ? Apr 17, 2016 02:29

Corla Plankun: May 8, 2007; improve the lives of everyone

the notion of coding gloves is so absurd that i almost want to get some just so i can have a little lol every morning at the codefactory

# ? Apr 17, 2016 02:46

Jimmy Carter: Nov 3, 2005; THIS MOTHERDUCKER
FLIES IN STYLE

# ? Apr 17, 2016 04:37

Joe 30330: Dec 20, 2007; "We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.

Open palm slam etc

# ? Apr 17, 2016 06:03

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

hackbunny posted:

coding gloves

# ? Apr 17, 2016 08:01

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

Corla Plankun posted:

the notion of coding gloves is so absurd that i almost want to get some just so i can have a little lol every morning at the codefactory

im imagining either driving gloves, fingerless cutoffs or magicians gloves

# ? Apr 17, 2016 16:59

hackbunny: Jul 22, 2007; I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

# ? Apr 19, 2016 14:38

pgroce: Oct 24, 2002

NO NO NO NO

# ? Apr 19, 2016 14:50

exe cummings: Jan 22, 2005

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# ? Apr 19, 2016 17:36

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 21:45

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

code:

alias shove="git add . && git commit -am 'bug fixing' && git push origin $1"

# ? Apr 19, 2016 17:39

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