Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[spike021]

Surprisingly I've managed to find some solid code snippets on SO for a few things I wanted to be able to do.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by spike021

2real4me

lol

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

If you Google, I'm sure someone has posted a copy of a script that someone else posted which would automate the data entry if it actually worked.

Yeah, um

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by soundman98

Yeah, um

The pain of inconvenient truth

[spike021]

Originally Posted by soundman98

Yeah, um

I'm ded

[Sapphireho]

I think my covid is finally starting to go away. Man that stuff takes a long time to shake. I wonder how many more times I will have it.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by soundman98

Yeah, um

I always tell folks "Don't write a piece of code that you don't want to support forever, or have to quit the company to get away from."

Of course, even if you do the former, it's likely you'll go someplace else that has the exact same need and you'll go "I know how to fix that" and the cycle starts over.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by soundman98

Yeah, um

One of our spring shop guys "wrote" a program to calculate the cut length of a spring with eyes a few months ago, didn't tell anybody, and demanded we pay him for it. He did this on his own at home, I asked him why he didn't do it on company time and he said " our computers here wouldn't handle it." We do 3d modeling in Solidworks on site. It was odd he would claim to do something like that when he could have just done it in an excel speedsheet.

The raw measurement is just the eye to eye of the spring. Plus the ID of the eye + x2 the thickness of the material then X 3.14. Then you add an inch for the scarf cut we have to put on the end.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

our computers here wouldn't handle it.

What a load of BS.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

One of our spring shop guys "wrote" a program to calculate the cut length of a spring with eyes a few months ago, didn't tell anybody, and demanded we pay him for it. He did this on his own at home, I asked him why he didn't do it on company time and he said " our computers here wouldn't handle it." We do 3d modeling in Solidworks on site. It was odd he would claim to do something like that when he could have just done it in an excel speedsheet.

The raw measurement is just the eye to eye of the spring. Plus the ID of the eye + x2 the thickness of the material then X 3.14. Then you add an inch for the scarf cut we have to put on the end.

Ah yes. The foibles of over-engineering. Some of us have that problem real bad sometimes.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by spike021

Ah yes. The foibles of over-engineering. Some of us have that problem real bad sometimes.

That's one of the reasons I moved away from coding 20 years ago. I could never declare it "done" because I always knew I could make it a little bit faster, or a little bit neater, or make it do a little bit more....

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

What a load of BS.

Right? He got mad at me for basically calling him a liar. He's at home now this week because he hurt himself. He refused to move a pallet with some 5 gal buckets on it because it is "not his job," and stepped over them while trying to get 22ft bars of spring steel off the metal rack by hand and tripped over it. They have a 4k overhead crane that covers most of the shop and a powered pallet jack with 112" lift capability. So dumb

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

That's one of the reasons I moved away from coding 20 years ago. I could never declare it "done" because I always knew I could make it a little bit faster, or a little bit neater, or make it do a little bit more....

Sounds like lapping

[ichitaka05]

Wednesday, work have officially announce via email transfer to different department... pass 2 days, I'm getting a ton of email & verbal "congrats" &/or "You deserve this promotion!" (it's a lateral move, so not promotion). If they only knew what I know, they won't be saying these things. That day, my boss went home early & crying. I'm assuming it's not related to my transfer. I was busy help with interviews, so not sure the reason... but noticed she took herself off for 2 weeks from the schedule.

Still have bitter taste in my mouth about this transfer, but trying to be optimistic about it and think and writing down all the things I can improve on that department.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Sounds like lapping

Yea, it is actually.