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Forum: What do you work on while waiting on your programs to finish?

I have a few jobs that take all the limited resources that I have currently and it looks like I'm not working. So I generally work on reports for our cases, read a paper, or hit up Biostars.

What do you do if you have idle time?

Do you have idle time if you are working on a server?

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updated by Ram Ram • written by skbrimer skbrimer

Looks like you missed "catching up with email".

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written by GenoMax GenoMax

That isn't as much email for me :) I'm more "gene jockey" than "important".

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written by skbrimer skbrimer

aannnnnd. I just printed that out and it's on my desk :)

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written by skbrimer skbrimer

I work on making my programs faster. If I have enough time to make it faster while waiting for it to finish, I kill the old version and restart it.

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written by Brian Bushnell Brian Bushnell

I think that is going to far :) Although as a user of BBMap thank you for the work!

I can barely write simple scripts so I'm not even sure how to optimize them.

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written by skbrimer skbrimer

Read Nature/Science news, go bug other people in the lab, grab a beer?

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written by fanli.gcb fanli.gcb

I argue with people about trivial things on the Internet.

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written by John John

Plan another KC Bioinformatics meetup (J/K). : )

Try and make the argument for more computational resources! Ha ha. But seriously, those are all good options. Learning new keyboard shortcuts?

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written by Madelaine Gogol Madelaine Gogol

hahahaha! I did learn somethings from trying it the last time. Mostly what I don't want in a group. I think if I do it again it will be better.

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written by skbrimer skbrimer

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