New Coder on the Block
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blogzandstuff
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welcome, you'll learn a lot on here. Visit the journey section, that's a good place to get ideas
maidanez
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Sure but my builds are all big apps currently unrelated to SEO. I can show you screenshots, references, a video demo of a prototype full auto employee scheduler that uses Linear Programming to navigate solutions. But I can't PM anybody at the moment so it's hard lol.
blogzandstuff
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you can put them in the download section. Just use approved download site and do a full virus total. They cannot have any contact, social share, upgrades, registration or advertising. In other words must be totally free. Doubt if mods will like you sharing via pm. @MisterF will explain better
maidanez
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They are all Node.js + Aurelia cloud based solutions. One is in use every day in a company to schedule people door to door, track training etc. The full auto scheduler is a scheme app linked to c++ library Cbc. I think I realize what has happened here, I am unused to BHW terminology. I didn't realize you wanted a little app to use. I'll happily share my linear programming search code with some select people but I don't think you'll find it that useful. Ping me back if you disagree. Otherwise give me a little project idea and I'll see what I can do in my free time to give back to BHW.
I´d be interested in your previous projects if you don´t mind telling us more
maidanez
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I´d be interested in your previous projects if you don´t mind telling us more
Ok well the prototype employee scheduler was designed for a call center. They were spending 3 days building a schedule as it has to conform to Erlang C/A, which is a queuing model that predicts how many calls will be taken on an infinite time scale if you have x number of agents answering the phone. It's on an infinite time scale because it reaches a stable state over a long enough period but it is rounded out to 30-60 minute blocks generally. Erlang C will overload if the call rate is too high for the agents, Erlang A models abandonment so always reaches a stable state. They both use a poisson arrival process as it is one of the few probability functions that can be modeled at high speed. Anything more complicated and we have to simulate it with random runs. The function is non-linear so some non intuitive things happen which is why it's used over just eyeballing rough guesses.
So I built a prototype that did it in 30 secs (down to 2-3 secs now with a new library that includes some additions to try and schedule employees fairly), got a meet with the fairly largeish company. They were like wow, this is great come back with a better looking cloud based prototype which I did. But then nobody wants to discuss anything further, potentially because more than one person's job would be removed if it were to be implemented but also possibly because I'm potentially aspergers and I may have upset the guy does the schedules during the meet as he inherited a system he doesn't understand and he said some stuff that was false concerning Erlang C and I called him out on it. Not to make him look bad just so we were dealing firmly in facts, but he seemed to take it personally.
So yeah, I'm here to learn how to market better based on my experiences.
Wow, that sounds interesting.
Yeah, good luck on BHW
Lots of interesting things out here ^^
What programming languages are you able to programme in?
Are you studying? Do you have a full time job or plenty of spare time for some projects?
maidanez
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Wow, that sounds interesting.
Yeah, good luck on BHW
Lots of interesting things out here ^^
What programming languages are you able to programme in?
Are you studying? Do you have a full time job or plenty of spare time for some projects?
Programming languages, javascript, java, scala, scheme, rust, c, c#, php. I haven't used all of them recently so it takes me a few days to spin back up to speed if I need to use one again. Currently spinning back up in php to build a free wordpress plugin for garages MOT reminders etc as a sort of test to see how it does. I do most of my stuff in node.js and a browser framework. In the past quite a long while ago back when I used to write some bots it would be anything from firefox plugins to a scala based centralized system to keep a few hundred PCs+ communicating to each other. I would like try clojure and/or ocaml. Never got on with python or ruby for some reason but if I ever had to use it I'd figure it out. I had a local search algo coded in rust for speed and memory safety before I switched out to Cbc & Linear Programming. I'm a huge fan of that over C for tasks where you need speed. It's not quite as fast, but it doesn't crash on memory corruption and yet still allows you to manually allocate memory so it's usable for real time projects if needed.
I have a long term contract at the moment that takes up 1/3 of the week when I'm in a physical office. The only guy in the office crazily enough. I purposely avoid "proper employment" though lol. I've been employed properly once and I walked into it accidentally. Much prefer freelance or joint projects. So I def. have free time where I'm trying to figure out what works and then hit it hard.
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