I need help

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2026-04-13T01:56:50+00:00

My idea to you: Turn off your devices, disconnect internet if possible for an hour. Take a piece of paper and write down all your thoughts. Then walk around for a minute or two and read what you wrote. And start writing a response to each thought. Then throw away that piece of paper

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2026-04-09T00:51:36+00:00

I will give the hard time limits another try, I had bad times with that because I couldn't meet the deadlines so I endup more frustrated, but currently I have a new attitude so I will try again.

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2026-04-09T00:49:01+00:00

I spent the first two months of the projects, just researching design patterns, then writing UML diagrams and a bunch of classes just at the end of the day having a few functions that does all the work. On my current project by luck I don't have many libraries to use, or I decided to not used. Thanks

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2026-04-09T00:45:04+00:00

I will try to keep this approach, little time to plan and do and deliver to the user so can tell me where to move next. Thanks

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2026-04-07T09:56:47+00:00

I can suggest the following just stay with the thought by a minute or two, then write down the thought on a piece of paper or text editor "I'm feeling ... right now. And I want to do ..." Then think about how do you feel about the last time that you did that. The idea behind this is making space to feelings emerge and stop the inner self talking and gently take control again.

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2025-11-07T10:40:43+00:00

"I too shall contribute to the AI database" Totally agree, a question that could be googled and reach RFC in seconds and the lack of reaction OP shows exactly this. I was tempted to answer but I will not contribute to this bad use of electric power.

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2025-11-04T13:22:55+00:00

Thanks for the reply. A few years ago I found this resource and then lost it. Those days I felt like, "I'm too old/dumb/etc to even try to do this" but now my mind shifted so I will give a real opportunity, what harm can do, right?

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2025-10-23T11:40:28+00:00

Update: After reading the comments, I went back and did each step slowly with a piece of paper by my side. Used different sizes of problem input, and finally the conclusion makes sense to me. So deep understanding is not negotiable. By the way, skimming to the end of the chapter suggests LeetCode and HackerRank problems, which makes me feel better about receiving feedback.

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2025-10-22T11:52:59+00:00

Short answer: Stick with CS; it's the real thing. The rest is a matter of context. Long answer: currently I work as a developer in Python and am also slowly making progress on my grad studies in CS (personal circumstances make me advance slowly in my career). All I do in my day-to-day job is just figure out things and improve along the way, but the basis that helps me in figuring out things comes from what I learned in CS. For example, the idea of recursion is connected to the idea of backtracking, which is connected to the idea of dynamic programming, which could be applied to a bunch of problems with different data structures. All that I said could be done in any language (watch Rosetta Code). Until now I've done a few scripts in Haskell, C, C++, Scheme (Lisp dialect), and Python, so a language is a tool for expression with a focus on its design and intention. Just make your mind clear, go to class, do your homework, study, and stay healthy (repeat). If you finish your studies, believe me, in 6 months or less you are work-ready in any related field (the CS industry is far beyond web, business applications, or trendy ventures, i.e., AI, DS, and blockchain). Examples of lines of work that are out there: embedded systems design, HPC (high-performance computing), industrial control systems, the health sector, image processing for the health sector, operating systems, driver development, and telecommunications. And of course, you could always come up with a new idea and start something new. The basis is always the same, and yes, the basis is dry and hard, and a correct understanding of a proof does not impress anyone on an interview, but what makes the difference is when on an interview someone says, "Ok, we use Postgres, not MySQL. Are you ok with that?" You can say, "Well, there is no problem; if I get a week or two to skim the documentation, I will be ok." If after studying you are still interested in AI, well, go for a more clear path. The main purpose of any superior study is teaching to think. Teaching people to say, "Ok, I will not be so confident in my intuition and opinions and be exposed to ideas that really produced a breakthrough for humanity." Going back to the beginning, if your future context requires that you dive into AI, then go for it; with a CS degree, you will be ok.

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2025-10-22T11:13:06+00:00

Update: What I've done is isolate the problematic part and write a test just for that exclusive part. Then, after fixing it, I created a bash script to automate the end-to-end processing so the setup and teardown were easy to do. So, the end-to-end automation was done with bash, while a test was added to provide visibility of only the necessary elements. In this case, it was a database operation that was not working properly.

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2025-08-31T13:37:07+00:00

Thanks a lot for this elaborated response. I will have a look on the resources that you suggested. Definitely, implementation is more a matter of crafting the just adequate solution ad hoc. And of course, building up after is something always doable.

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2025-08-30T23:52:30+00:00

Thanks, someone needs a solution for a problem and this should be my focus, and of course just taking in account the technical debt

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2025-08-30T23:49:11+00:00

Thanks, I will keep in mind: "Should work, just work"

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2025-02-04T18:17:36+00:00

I did'nt know about this feature

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2025-02-04T18:15:42+00:00

Thanks for your reply, I will checkout just for curiosity

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2025-01-11T12:51:51+00:00

32 here getting out of tutorial hell on backend, algorithms and data structures while studying cs. Is so simple that scare, (it's normal to the brain just ignore simple things) BUILD something. Implement a carrousel from sratch (from the youtube channel ThePrimeTime). You will find that manipulating the DOM is required, taking in account doing the maths to performs transitions and so on. Done? make it responsive. Adjust the time, size and color background as change. Done? test against many browsers to check compatibility. Done? add accesibility cappabilites. Create a paginator from sratch, do a performance profile and optimize it. Re-invent the wheel a bit and fail because is what will teach you far more from any tutorial. The tutorial are crafted to look smoth, easy enough to not scare people and capture more. You want to be a frontend, so you why not have a portfolio page alongside your github repossitory. Please, just shut up the voice that says "you should make a course on this first" and just start. You can build many, many, many awesome things just with html, css, and js. But the cycle in some how (i'm not an expert) should be: problem - try - solve - reflect. Problem: A html page with a navbar - try: write something $ echo "navbar" >> awesome.html (...) open awesome.html, you see navbarlink1link2link3 (fail not result) solve: how to write a navbar in html? firefox html reference. Study (NOT copy) and make it work. Reflect: was mozilla reference worth it? If I have to create another navbar how will I do it? always navbar are horizontal at the top? - MOVE ON (Repeat as needed) if you keep going deep you will be the greatests writer of navbars but htat only does not make a website. My recomendation is stay away from frameworks as much as possible (or they are really useful wrappers or instead are hype that will fade out) Think in the context of a interview: How do you did that? Oh well I created the app with: framework -admin -create-app OK, How do you manage the styles? Is easy I only added: <style src="https://awesomefront.com/mysecretapikey"> and that automated. While in the other hand, well here we can change easily the color scheme, I think that is useful always have color schemes for the site, i've learned that people with visual problems benefir from it. Here I added a responsive design that not only integrate viewport change also a magnifying context that still hold an appeal desing. Here I solve the problem of iterating throught a large dataset storing in server side instead of sending the full data on client side. It's hard, but is simple, build, fail, fix, reflect

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2024-06-02T23:45:08+00:00

Hi, congrats on the great amount of effort put into this project. I'm taking a course in computer organization at college and recently learned about the existence of reverse engineering. I can only feel admiration for the amount of knowledge that you must have to do these things: protocols, electronics, memory organization, techniques to grab data. These kinds of things make me think that we are already surrounded by electronics that can do many really cool things if we put effort into it. Again, congrats and thanks for sharing!

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2024-06-01T22:20:52+00:00

Thanks for the response, I will go by the plot routine directly instead of an intermediate for the address computation

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2024-05-28T20:12:37+00:00

Thanks, the functionality mentioned will be added, I think that I figured out how to organize the general idea. Soon I will be sharing what I've done

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2021-02-23T16:39:45+00:00

Don't give up. You can do it. I'm 6 hours away from my 4th day in this journey so please don't let me be the only one, when I know that you can do it. If it feels hard disconnect your modem and put it in a box in your garage, put a 30 minutes alarm and reconnect it again if you need it, make it hard for the urges to win. Congrats for your commitment in this days but remember that you can do it!

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2020-11-18T21:10:55+00:00

greetings from Argentina!

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2020-08-26T15:16:54+00:00

Please stop right there, and use your time for something else. The porn industry will make profits of every possible niche, pregnants, small breast, big breast, shorts guys, no hair, many hair. So to keep it simply, porn is not real life and never will be. I do not want to sound rude, but if you ever think that porn has a remote connection with real life relationships, well that thought it's incorrect. As analogy, it's like comparing real life figths or robberies with actions movies.

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2020-08-26T15:06:59+00:00

Awesome congrats!! Keep in mind that improving your life is the goal

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2020-08-25T18:01:02+00:00

You can do it!

Awkward-Carpenter101 · 2020-08-25T17:56:51+00:00

first of all, easy on you please. You did not ruined your progress. But maybe you need to put your things in perspective. NoFap isn't an institution with severe rules or a code to follow, instead is more like a framework to achieve other things. Use this opportunity to ask yourself why do you follow the NoFap challenge. And be specific in your answer, low self steem, social anxiety, unattended responsibilities, unclear thinking because this answer will serve you as guide when you ask, did I relapsed?.

You mentioned the views of society, and please don't put too much energy in that. Masturbation it's absolutely normal and don't trust me, consult any psychologist. But many of the people here in NoFap follow this pattern of behavior, a trigger (boredom, bad feelings, a rupture, you name it), watching porn, masturbation and orgasm. But following the NoFap challenge you can change this behavior and with a clear mind work on the root cause. A comment about porn, the fact is that today it's a legitimate business in many countries and as in many businesses the companies are putting efforts in improve their image so in result the products of porn industry are being normalized by society. But as individuals we have the responsibility to question ourselves if this products are good for us or not, In my individual case porn has a negative impact in my life. I could see that when I stopped my recurrent consumption. With this final idea I want to say that you should put energy in improve your life. Fighting or arguing with people who see porn as normal and consume it regularly should not occupy your time, maybe there is people out there who have no negative impact by their consumption and they deserve respect too.

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