Questions tagged [deadlines]

A deadline is a narrow field of time in which an assignment or task has to be accomplished. Deadlines or time limits are often associated with milestones and goals.

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How to Deal with chronic time issues?

I have a developer on my staff that chronically overshoots deadlines, and estimates. On several projects the last week or two everyday I hear "It should be done by the end of the day". This developer does good work. I have already spoke to him about…
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How do you handle scheduling/deadlines around programmers?

Do programmers like to create deadlines? Im a web developer, and schedules/deadlines are all over the place in my field. But I've worked with some software engineers/programmers who hate deadlines, is there a way around that?
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HTTPException: Deadline exceeded while waiting for HTTP response from URL: #deadline

We are using the developers python guide with Python data 2.15 library and as per example stated for app engine. createSite("test site one", description="test site one", source_site…
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How to avoid DEADLINE_EXCEEDED when "We're sorry, a server error occurred. Please wait a bit and try again." happens?

I have read similar questions such as Error type of "We're sorry, a server error occurred. Please wait a bit and try again. " and many others, but they were specific to other types of error. I have a Google Apps Script running and processing Gmail…
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Google App Engine Task Deadline

is there a way to handle any soft deadline while executing a task ? The DeadlineExceededError is thrown after 10 minutes of execution and I am given few seconds after that to do some stuff. I want to clean up somethings before the task dies and…
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URLFetch Max Deadline is Only 60 Seconds for TaskQueues

Problem:I am calling URLFetch with a deadline of 480 seconds from within a TaskQueue, but it is timing out after only 60 seconds. The original question was asked in official group more than year ago, but still unanswered. Bug confirmed, but…
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Earliest deadline scheduling

I want to implement Earliest deadline scheduling in C but I cant find the algorithm on the net.. I understand the example below that when time is 0, both A1 and B1 arrive. Since A1 has the earliest deadline, it is scheduled first. When A1 completes,…
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use io_service::post (boost) when deadline_timer is waiting

I have a problem while using deadline_timer and io_service::post as below: #include "boost/asio.hpp" #include "boost/thread.hpp" int main() { boost::asio::io_service io_service; boost::asio::deadline_timer timer1(io_service); …
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How to deal with rapid project spec changes in a tight deadline scenario?

How to deal with a project manager that imposes really tight deadlines but with a day or so before the deadline brings in new features and spec changes to implement, with another tight deadline. The worst thing about this is that most of the new…
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Google app engine python timeout sending email

My script grabs the content of an rss page gets the urls in that page saves them to a list then it grabs the content of each url and it emails the contents of the page to me. Everything is working very well accept I can't send every link in the…
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gRPC deadline set and call timeout difference lower than deadline time

I am making gRPC calls from a java service, and using withDeadlineAfter(1000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS).callApi() This call times out in most cases (DEADLINE_EXCEEDED). When I checked the logs, it looks as follows 2019-06-14 06:30:09.153 +0000 -…
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Python Command for Manual Job Submission Maya to deadline (Including submit maya scene file)

I am submitting Maya jobs to Deadline via a script where I pass the two job files (maya_deadline_job.job and maya_deadline_info.job) as arguments to deadlinecommand.exe. I need to make sure I am Submitting the Maya Scene File. Is there any way to…
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Maya to deadline job submission python command

I am trying to send maya renders to render farm by Deadline Software. Python Command for Manual Job Submission Maya to deadline. import sys import subprocess import maya.cmds as cmds deadline = "C:\\Program…
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Earliest deadline cpu scheduling

Updated:Solved my first question about sorting. But now I can't figure out how to show the correct diagram for the earliest deadline first algorithm with idle times. So far here is my code: import java.util.*; class deadlineprototype …
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Google OR-Tools Error: Evaluating a BoundedLinearExpr as a Boolean value is not supported

I want to schedule n jobs on m machines with transition times and alternatives and modified the example in github/or-tools/scheduling_with_transitions_sat.py because I also want some kind of lateness penalty. My test input data is with n = 9 and m =…
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