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I'm struggling with one of my hobby projects at the moment - I keep going down rabbit holes. I'm not exactly sure what features I want in it yet, I first need to come up with a rough prototype, some sort of 'minimum viable product' and let it evolve from there. Suck it and see.
At the same time, in the back of my head I know there are requirements for it to be low latency, hugely scalable and fault tolerant, and this affects how it should be written. So I'll look at it and go, hmm 64bit references - too large, too much garbage collection overhead etc. So I'll remodel it all as unsafe structs in unmanaged memory. Then I'll think about memory mapped files - that could be a way of avoiding long loading and saving periods and good for fault tolerance etc. etc. Turning my C# into some mad C parody.
Such efforts are kind of irrelevant in a sense as I don't actually have anything to scale out yet and hugely time and thought-consuming and generally stalls the whole thing. In the end I'll probably just get disillusioned and abandon it, like so many other projects. I've written down on a piece of paper on my desk 'No Rabbit Holes!' but I really struggle writing stuff that I know isn't taking into account nasty things down the road. Rabbit holes - they're like magnets.
Trying to think too far ahead is perhaps a tendency that kills things dead. Does this ring bells with anyone?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I can't even count the number or projects I've contemplated. Few if ever started. Its like winning the lottery for me, thinking about them is as far as I've ever gotten 
Hogan
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Rob Philpott wrote: Trying to think too far ahead is perhaps a tendency that kills things dead.
I often fall victim to this. That's why I also try to force myself to produce the smallest part of the project possible to give it a jump start.
I've been contemplating a project which would save some data for the user. I started thinking about how to save the data. I've thought about it for so long I've almost removed the energy from the project entirely.
So, I finally hit on an idea I wanted to do with the data where the each user will get his own copy of the remote database (sqlite). It's an odd idea & I've contemplated it so much that finally I started writing a super small prototype that
1. allows user to save one "journal" entry each day
2. saves the data to her own copy of remote sqlite db.
I started writing it up (it'll be an article here on CP).
But along the way I hit an odd thing with posting data to .NET Core WebAPI where the API method was using [FromBody] to bind data.
I literally stopped the other thing and investigated the challenges with .NET Core WebAPI databinding and wrote up an article on it[^]. I hope I didn't lose momentum on the original project.
I'll force myself to continue that one today and finish a "good enough" version of the code and write up the article.
Yes, it's a challenge to get started...and then to keep going. 
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Please tell me that it's not more than four, and that Dij's new nest discovery is now empty? 'Cause them were BIG chicks and he's bringing me the corpses in pairs ... 
There are times when it's really good to have a cat around, and then there are other times.
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My four chickens used to lay one egg a day like clockwork.
Then it was 3 some days. One or more of them was slacking.
Now we're lucky to get an egg at all. They chooks are getting old.
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Depending upon what birds they are, can even be 6 or more.
Sorry
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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Bugger.
These chicks had no feathers and they were all around 12cm long (ignoring the legs) so I'm guessing quite big birdies were involved. The only colour I could see was red and that came from the inside, so that doesn't count or aid identification ...
Dij isn't talking so I'm getting nothing there either.
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Having seen the size of the eggs, I would hope for the bird's sake no more than one at a time! 
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- Homer
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Nature taking it's course I guess.
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Yes, I agree, I missed my cat when he died but I've never missed what he used to bring home. I'd never have another one.
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Update: https://cse.usf.edu/~kchriste/tools/udpClientNonblock.c[^] Pretty much what I needed. Yay.
Update 2: Much ado about nothing. Easier than I thought. Docs are just terrible.
Anyone remember the sockets layer from C and C++?
Seriously, the fact that someone actually designed them the way that they did, and it made its way through a standards committee just floors me. The blocking stuff is fine, but the non blocking stuff is incomprehensible, at least last time I looked at it.
It's absolutely the worst asynchronous API I've ever encountered.
I'm about ready to use them in blocking mode on a spawned thread just to avoid it, but the MCU doesn't have a lot of resources and threads are relatively expensive. 
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I'd be curious to hear more specifically what is wrong about the asynchronous socket API. What is the incomprehensible part.
Communication is, in its very nature, asynchronous. So an asynchronous socket API should be the natural way to do it. Synchronous communication is a straitjacket; you can't work or think freely if you have to force yourself into a synchronous framework for communication.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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IBM Documentation[^]
It's anything but natural.
Adding, I took a liberty here. I'm using non-blocking and asynchronous interchangeably, but they may not always be in every context.
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And here I am, complaining about non-well-formed CSV files... 
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Those are the bane of every programmer.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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My simple rule: I only read CSVs I wrote.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I can't be the only one that occasionally runs into a situation where I need to produce an awful lot of code before I can test any of it, because it's all interdependent. This often happens when I'm integrating something to an external API that itself is rather complicated, but it can come up in other situations as well. My SVG renderer for example - there are just so many moving interlocking parts that you're standing on a mountain of code before you even get to proof of life.
So if you've ever been in that situation, I imagine you hate it as much as I do.
It's stressful to me. I do not like coding a house of cards, and then having to go back and verify it after the fact. It feels shady. How do you deal with it?
Some kind of process management?
Some clever form of testing I'm not familiar with?
Tai chi?
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honey the codewitch wrote: I can't be the only one that occasionally runs into a situation where I need to produce an awful lot of code before I can test any of it
Rarely, but it's a PITA and I get pretty stressed. Usually for nothing but occasionally it proves to be a can of worms and I have to go back and try to debug the code, which causes more frustration until I get to the point where I post a stupid question here on CP that makes no sense to anyone but me then I get away from it for a while and behold I figure it out.
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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