Lost Track Contest - 3 STEEM and 100% SBD to win!
You might have seen my post on Steem-Python on a Raspberry Pi Wheezy.
This went horribly wrong, but I might repeat it, as you know:)
Anyway, did you have similar experiences, where you were so focused on one topic, that you lost track and didn't realise, when your project went into full trainwreck mode?
The Contest
Share your related lost track story in the comments.
It can be the full story, or just a link to your story elsewhere.
Paint a picture, if you want.
Maybe vlog or audio, but I will take points from Gryffindor for that medium!
The Prize
3 STEEM for the best story.
I choose the winner.
The other winner will be chosen randomly.
50% of SBD payout to a lucky upvoter
25% of SBD payout to another lucky upvoter
12.5% of SBD payout to another lucky upvoter
..etc.
Until there is only 0.001 SBD left
:)
The Rules
To enter the contest for 3 STEEM you need to:
- share your story
- upvote this post
- resteem this post
To enter the 100% SBD draw:
- upvote this post
- resteem this post
This post is part #1 of my "Post every day on schedule in March" challenge
I had a friend that asked me to come help this fix their computer last November within the first 10 days. Should have been a real quick 1 hour task; a windows 10 update and we are good to go. This is a windows 7 machine that her son got a free Microsoft upgrade to windows 10. I set it up to do it's thing and come back 8 hours later and the update process is stuck at 96%. So I restore a previous windows 10 image, of an earlier date. I come back a few days later because it had autoupdated on my friend and was stuck again at 96%. I searched Microsoft's database and they tell me to download a program, do a scan and then do the update. 6 hours later we are frozen in the 90% range again. I ended up spending more then 60 hours searching for and trying different alternatives over the course of 2 months... Eventually in late December I said we are going to wipe the drive and install fresh, being that she didn't have a key for windows 10 and didn't have a copy of windows 7. She ended up with the simplest version of windows 10 and is happy to have a functioning computer again and I am happy to have my time back.
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That windows thing is shit.
My parents upgraded to win10. It is horrible.
I stick to win7 as long as possible on desktop.
I just realised, I only stick to windows, because of notepad++. There is no such editor on Linux. And I use that tool all the time.
Strange..
Not exactly the topic but...
I used to code as a hobby and during digging deeper into steem (here since a month) I noticed more and more disturbing things about steem. And that I needed to use about a dozent external tools and sites for the full experience. So I decided to start developping a tool that fits exactly my needs. The hole concept ist done but now I have a tough start because I'm completly new to python and don't even get it (piston) running on my windows machine... So yeah some kind of your topping I was so focused on the features that i totally forgot about the basics g I already finished other projects, but python breaks my neck at the moment...
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Thats why you should have a VPS. Fun to play around with ;)
Steem python is a mess, there are some more python tools currently developed. But those are pretty alpha.
beem for example
thats exactly what I do now. Was just a fast shot to see if its running ;-)
But be aware that, Proof of Concepts leads to Pilot, Pilot leads to testing and testing leads to production..while machine and code is still the same PoC thing :))
That tech stuff is way above my head. But on a semi-related note, holy crap its March?!
I am not sure, if that enters you in the 3 STEEM draw..
But, hell yeah, we have March. Today is the first day of spring!
A project about making a tic tac to game .i was working on it at first year in my university life.
After working 13 days,it was almost ready for playing . but eventually my hard disk crashed down .
And i did not save those file in another place.Finally i lost my track and didn't realize .........
backup is for wussies
It's been about 9 years since I started writing an application for E-Bay auctions. It was capable of auction management, had fancy templates, included multiple images inside one single graphic file hosted on ebay servers, could update itself and was really newbie friendly. In short: it was the E-Bay Swiss army knife.
I programmed it in my free time because I had to pay bills from my full-time job, and so it took over two years for it to be usable by other people. During this time the E-Bay API was changed twice which forced me to rewrite some parts of the Application.
When I was done and wanted to publish the application, the API was changed a third time and a competitor launched a similar application. At this time I lost track and hope and gave it up since I would have to rewrite even more parts of the Application. I quit the already registered domain, deleted the homepage and moved the application into my archive with a heavy heart.
I still have lots of VMware images with development environments and even a running but useless webserver for the application. For the sake of completeness, here is a screenshot of the application running on Windows 7:
Rest in peace "Sell-O-Matic"
Looks like I've won;)
Many Thanks!
It's to long ago. Now there is too much competition.
But I'm still impressed how much effort I put in this app...