This tag is for questions about using timers in code to make things happen in a certain order or for gathering amount of time elapsed.
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Pomodoro Timer via setInterval
I'm hoping for some input on if my code is DRY or how I could have made it more efficient. I am pretty new in terms of jQ/JavaScript and this took me far longer than I care to admit. I will post the ...
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Creating an in-memory ViewCounter that commits to database every 10 minutes
This singleton is responsible for counting every pageview (called Routes in our case) we get by id, until the timer runs out and commits the results to the database in one query. Then the counter gets ...
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A low tech approach to measuring game speed
Whilst developing a game I needed a delay routine capable of doing delays
ranging from 0.5 sec to just a few msec. The obvious choice was to use
the BIOS delay function 86h on int 15h. In a true real ...
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Is a Timer the best way to achieve recursive in Android?
I'm changing the Viewpager items programmatically using mViewPager.setCurrentItem(position); with a regular interval of time recursively. Please tell me if this is ...
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Debounce in Scala
This is my attempt at implementing debounce in Scala without any 3rd party library. How can I improve the code/make it more idiomatic (and any bugs I might have missed)?
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Abstracting test suite for simple performance evaluation in Java
Today, I sat down to write a tiny performance test to quickly assess a hunch I had regarding an optimization. The resulting code eventually got rather large for my taste; thus I subsequently tried to ...
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Timer/timertask to destroy a process that overruns a defined time limit
I was wondering if this is the correct implementation of a times task to destroy a thread after it overruns a predefined time period:
It works by creating a getting the thread from ...
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Timer to poll a Delegate
This is a followup to this where I was initially using a single thread and Thread.Sleep() to poll a delegate. I was recommended to use a timer and the ...
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Touchless lightswitch with Raspberry Pi
I am currently developing a touchless lightswitch via a Raspberry Pi, an ultrasonic module and a nice radio module.
However, I am quite a beginner in Python and it was a hard time (at least for me) ...
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Portable method of getting time in C
Mac doesn't have the Unix clock_gettime so I am trying to create something that's really portable and only dependent on C.
So far I've come across this function:
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Countdown timer in PHP
Using PHP and jQuery, I was able to make this countdown timer. I've searched various books and obviously on Google, but couldn't find this type of approach as used by me here. I sincerely feel there ...
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Hash table with “Time To Live” elements
Recently, I got a very interesting task: to realize the hash table that works in multi-process server in common memory, each element of which must have a TTL property. It was suggested to implement ...
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Proper use of timer in windows service
I have following code to use timer (System.Timers.Timer) in windows service. The goal is that new time handler should not occur if previous one didn't finish its job. Here is how I achieve this:
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Timer factory function
I use this Timer function quite a bit lately for all sorts of stuff,
and would appreciate if someone could review/analyze/criticize/verify
and, of course, suggest ...
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Reimplementation of Underscore _.throttle
I've built a function that mimics _.throttle (returns a new, throttled version of the passed function, that, when invoked repeatedly, will only actually call the original function at most once per ...
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Simple 3…2…1 countdown in iOS app
I would like to display a 3...2...1 countdown on my iOS app (before to take a picture) but I didn't find an elegant solution. I don't want to make a Countdown app with an NSTimer. For me the important ...
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Running alarms in python
My code is designed to simply trigger alarms; it is not supposed to be used by anyone but me.
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Timer stop watch in AngularJS
I wrote a script for a timer. Is there any way to improve the code, with fewer number of lines?
JSBIN
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Countdown to multiple update times each day
I'm creating an update function to show my users when the next update will be available. I'm using the jQuery countdown plugin to show the time. What is a more efficient way to write this?
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Measure Method executing time - 2nd Attempt
Long time ago I've written a method that would allow me to measure the amount of time a method takes to run. I've decided to tweak this method and make use of TPL since measuring a method may take ...
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Timer class, to be taken as a model for other classes
I wanted a timer, rather like the Visual Basic object, and I wanted it with no cumulative error. And I wanted it flexible, so I wouldn't have to write another one. I'm very lazy BTW, so lazy that I ...
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Full screen countdown display
As a part of a bigger application, I wrote code which creates a display for a countdown of a given time. It is nothing fancy, but I would still appreciate a review.
I am especially concerned about:
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Stopwatch template
It's often useful to be able to time code, for instance, to evaluate alternative approaches to the same problem. Because this is a thing I use frequently, I have created this Stopwatch templated ...
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Functions between certain times of the day
I'm working on something for my school's laptops that will disable videos/games between 8:00 AM and 3:15 PM. Due to the giant time gap, I will not be waiting to see if the code functions properly or ...
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A thread-safe stop watch utility class
I am writing a stop watch utility class in Java that I want to be thread-safe (concurrent). Here is what I have right now:
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Beginner stopwatch app
I'm learning Swift and would appreciate any code review suggestions (the more nit-picky, the better). In particular, I'm wondering if there's a more efficient way to format the time in the ...
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Timers to use various Task(s)
I am developing a C# program, which performs various tasks in parallel threads. I created a Base task and let all tasks derived from this class execute. I just want to know if this a viable approach ...
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Timer for a Java game
I have a simple game that implements a TimerTask. However, when there's a popup using JOptionPane the timer task doesn't seem to ...
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DebugTimer design
Summary:
I created this DebugTimer class so that I could test performance of code in a much cleaner/shorter syntax.
Prior I was using regular timers and wrapping them all in ...
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Running a function every second
Can someone review my timer class that runs some code every second, please? The void it's calling (runCode) is just a void with ...
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Passing arguments to a SendMail function referenced by addressOf operator
I am trying to send daily mail alert to users based on some timer values. For that I've used Addhandler to call the sendmail() ...
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A Timer Construct to Simplify Timing Blocks of Code
This is fairly simple, so I'm just looking for ideas on anything that can be cleaned up, places it can be extended, and suggestions regarding style/naming (I'm terrible at naming).
It allows you to ...
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JavaScript / jQuery stopwatch
Just as a learning exercise, I set out making a stopwatch without looking up how to do it etc.
I know it will have been done many times before. I'm just looking for some feedback on what I should do ...
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Golang concurrent HTTP request
I wanted to test the performance of concurrent http request in Go against node.js:
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Basic 30 TPS server loop
I've created a console server which is supposed to update 30 times per second, I'd like you to review it and also I'm curious about the accuracy of the server's loop.
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Inactivity Timeout
I made this piece of code to detect inactivity on different aspects of my app. It is part of a set of pieces to analyze user behavior.
Not saying it's ugly, but good looking constructive criticism to ...
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New year countdown
Here's some code I wrote quickly to get a nice millisecond countdown going. It displays the number of milliseconds until the new year in whatever timezone is next to be in 2015 are in in huge font, ...
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Executing a program with a temporary directory and measuring the running time
I need a code review for best practices and code correctness of the following piece of code. run executes a program and validates in output. If the output is valid ...
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Better method of a timer in Python
I am currently using:
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First Chess project
I'd made a project using pygame in python around 3 months ago. This was my first big project after I started learning how to program in college.
Now I'd like to know just how good my programming ...
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Stop Watch Application 2.0
After the tips from my previous review. I have come up with these changes:
Changed my braces to start on a new line
Used the Single Responsibility Principle
Return early whenever possible
Use a ...
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Random interval generator for a game
I have been working on a few games which all have a need to create "events" randomly over time. The intervals need to get shorter as time goes on if the event is negative or they need to get longer ...
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App to give cigarettes through the day
I have this app, that gives you cigarettes through the day, with equal intervals from one another.
These are some important variables:
wakeUp - is the time, when ...
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Stop Watch application
I've done the difficult dailyprogrammer challenge #2:
Your mission is to create a stopwatch program. this program should have start, stop, and lap options, and it should write out to a file to be ...
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Pausing a SwingWorker with a Timer
I made a SwingWorker which is fetching tweets using the twitter4j API.
The twitter API will allow 180 queries every 15 minutes, and then throw an exception with ...
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Follow-up: Timer utilizing std::future
The previous code (as displayed in Timer utilizing std::future) is now:
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