{"id":1554,"date":"2010-09-06T16:07:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T23:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2010-09-06T16:07:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T23:07:18","slug":"facing-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/2010\/09\/06\/facing-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>These are proposing this generation of destiny.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Time is the enemy here.\u00c2\u00a0 I did not devote enough time to this project and now I have run out.\u00c2\u00a0 There are time-sensitive\u00c2\u00a0things I need to be doing, and this project is, unfortunately, not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving time aside, there are other issues which stand in my way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using the Twitter API to post causes your tweets to be tagged with your application name.\u00c2\u00a0 Given that my application name is not &#8220;Web&#8221; or &#8220;iPhone App&#8221;, having them tagged with an application name is going to be a tad suspicious.<\/li>\n<li>The gibberish generator is producing gibberish.\u00c2\u00a0 While I expected it to be nonsense, for the most part it is not even coherent by the standards set forth by\u00c2\u00a0right-wing lunatics.\u00c2\u00a0 I did anticipate this scenario and I have some ideas on how to mitigate this problem ((I have a book sitting right here that gives the Dijkstra algorithm and another one that talks about neural nets&#8230;)), but I don&#8217;t have time to implement any of them.<\/li>\n<li>140 characters is way too limiting.\u00c2\u00a0 Way way way too limiting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m giving myself two more hours to make some adjustments and tweaks, then I&#8217;ll have to leave the project where it is.\u00c2\u00a0 However, if you want to get technical, I&#8217;m suppose to have five full days dedicated to a Crazy Weekend Project, and if you sum up the elapsed I&#8217;ve spent on this one, it&#8217;s probably only a day&#8217;s worth of that time taken.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I should theoretically still have about four days of time remaining, which would allow me to put this on hold and come back to it at a later date, if I choose to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are proposing this generation of destiny. Time is the enemy here.\u00c2\u00a0 I did not devote enough time to this project and now I have run out.\u00c2\u00a0 There are time-sensitive\u00c2\u00a0things I need to be doing, and this project is, unfortunately, not one of them. Leaving time aside, there are other issues which stand in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161],"tags":[15,31,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}