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He'll probably wait till you're hit by a tram to look it up.
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Guy makes some pretty good sense to me dude!
RT www.privacy-center.de.tc
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Many FORTRAN typos look like valid, but very different code. You don't want to tolerate typos.
FORTRAN code allows IMPLICIT variable types based on the first letter, where most are REAL valued. Also, spaces are irrelevant. This allows a DO (FOR) loop to become an assignment, as follows.
Loop has a comma for 1 to 10. 10 DO K = 1,10 .. CONTINUE 10
Assignment has a decimal point.
REAL DOK is implied. 20 DO K = 1.10
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EIGHT. SIX. SEVEN. FIVE. THREE OH NII-EEE-III-INE
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Still, what can you expect from a kind of application that sounds like a belch?
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perk This is relevant to my interests.
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How do you think sonar engineers feel about us network types using the word in the way we do?
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Had to look that up as well. Funny thing, maybe it'll take as long as the Cologne Cathedral (started in 1164, finished in 1880).
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This reminds me of my summer job freshman year.... every morning, the printer on one side of the room would print out a tall stack of documents, and a team of us would split them up and spend the rest of the day entering their contents in on terminals on the other side of the room.
It was like being part of a large, slow, lossy, wetware-based parallel cable.
-Jeremy
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I would charge for the negotiated price they offered (aka 8 weeks) knowing i gave them errorless work output at a price they stated. Maybe i would offer them next time to deliver it say 1 week sooner, if they want increase the price acordingly (let say to 120 % of previous amounth of $$$) (depending, it the data are needed in hurry, or they have a lot time for it)
In that way is nobody shorted - they have high quality results (without typos) at negotiated time for negotiated price, I have good money and free time for being technically educated.
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Wouldn't that meet the definition of quickly determining the status of a project or issue? Seems like I need to ping you via IM to determine how far along you are in understanding of common manager speak and your anger management classes.
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I'm conflicted: they offered the work as an 8 week job. If you can finish it in 5 minutes, what difference does it make? If I were the company, I'd pay the 8 week salary + 2 weeks for showing me how to do it again, then hire the person to do something else.
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Reminds me of when I caught a sysadmin copying a file from a Linux system to a Windows PC by copying and pasting the contents from a telnet window into wordpad. Then reversing the process to "copy" it back. Might have worked too if the line wrap hadn't bit him.
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We've got free "please call me's" for that on my network. *100#other_guys_number# and the other guy gets an sms saying "please call your_number"
presto!
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Yeah, except you're not Michelangelo, and you're not painting the Sistine Chapel, you're a two-bit code monkey hacking away at some dismal software project....
In the real world, it's called a sizing people. Managers expect them, and developers who cannot provide them suck at their jobs..... In the real world managers have to answer to budgets and time lines, your project has dependencies and is a dependency on other projects.... Saying it'll be done when it's done is a cop-out and shows you really have no idea what you're doing.
Do we face unknowns? Do we run into unanticipated problems? Sure that's why our sizings allow for some room to account for those issues, and further we have status reports (be it a daily scrum, daily reports, weekly reports, what-have-you) where we can raise issues to management and adjust our sizing accordingly.
Now sure, if you tell your manager you'll be done in a week, and he's back the next day asking if you're done yet, guy's an idiot, but come on... "it'll be done when it's done" is never acceptable....
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-Harrow.
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Thanks webhamster, this made me smile.
Now consider that recieving a ping command without any arguments will actually send 4 'pings'.
ping -t (heh)
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That's OK. Since you know the spoiler warning came after the spoiler, you have obviously already seen it. This particular movie is spoiled by watching it, anyway.
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Ah, I see you have the manager that goes "ping".
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Sad but true, this kind of stuff happens everywhere. I think part of it is because the decision makers frequently do not know enough about software and hire consultants to help or use such strange methods as going for the cheapest or most reknowned solution instead of an appropriate one.
Consultants are always dubious, why aren't they working with software to begin with? Do they even have experience (the answer is "not necessarily"). Then there are all the rumours of back-handers. Because the decision makers have little or no knowledge they can't discern the good from the bad... its a difficult problem to solve in the general case.
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That's what you think. I've SEEN this sort of thing go on at more than one company... in Tampa... I'd name names but why bother... I may have typed them in wrong.
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"It's done when it's done."
Sounds a lot like Duke Nukem Forever.
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This is all true, and eyeballs on the paper has to be done, but I think I'd first make a few quick passes w/ the compiler to pick the low-hanging fruit.
cc
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It should mean a conversation like this:
Manager: "Still on schedule?" Worker: "Yep"
In reality, it's micromanagement. Full context switches.
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The biggest WTF is Jake's superb command of the English language: "oblivity"?
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Then you probably don't want to konw about the end of The Sixth Sense, where Bruce Willis' parents buy him a house right next door to theirs.
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Why do people always say things like that? I'm convinced these people are the incompetent among us, who believe we should be paid on time not output.
The job is valued by the employer as worth 8 weeks pay (for some reason, effort is measured in time - I think this is 'Equal Opportunity' - a dead-shit gets paid the same for their time, despite their output being lower).
It is not fraud to do that work more efficiently, and claim the pay that was offered. If they believe the job to be 8 weeks work, and are prepared to pay for it, why should the employee lose out because they (or in this case, there son) is efficient?
I would have thought (though I haven't been involved with Temp Work), that you are (contractually) hired for a fixed period, not '...until this item of work is finished...' - If you finish the entirety of their work in less time, you are still (according to the contract) entitled to the pay for the full period. Of course, they are entitled to start you on other work in that time, but that's not always a bad thing....
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Then do it three more times.
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Twice the length from one end top the middle.
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Just before I went back to college, I took a job at a comapny through a temp agency. They also hired two data entry people to enter some stuff into Quicktax.
Now, I don't know what transpired is because they only had one computer with Quicktax on it, or confusion on the part of the temps as to how two people do data entry... but I spend the next week sitting down the hall from... the workers.
The temp agency delivered two Asian girls-- and they were exactly what that non-PC part of your brain conjures up when someone says "two Asian girls".
I spent the next week sitting down the hall from The Girls. One of them sat at the computer. The other one sat by the print outs, reading out data. The first girl then typed in what was read aloud. Except, again I don't know if this is because the first girl couldn't type, or the second girl couldn't read, but they did this one character at a time.
Each character read aloud. In a high pitched, making each letter and number sound like a question. Complete with the accent. Followed by a pause. Then a single click as the correct key was located. Then the scratch of a pen as the character was crossed off the spreadsheet. Repeat.
"whaoooooOOOON" (1 is pressed) "aaaallLLLLLLL" (R is pressed)
Given that half the company was Loas and extremely well spoken, I have no idea how this transpired. But it did, and I can only hope it was a social experiment, or some writers doing research for a Saturday Night Live skit.
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Wha?! What OS are you running? ping runs until you send it the appropriate signal.
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Solaris' "ping" sends only one single ping and only reports whether the other host is up or not.
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As the original poster said:
CAPTCHA facilisis: what Code Dependent may have ;)
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mandraulic processes ftw!
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And then print out the photo and attempt to reconstruct it with MS Paint.
Actually, screw that. Let's use real paint.
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Or maybe it will take as long as it takes to paint the Forth bridge in Scotland? (hint: when they finish painting the bridge, they have to start again from the other side)
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Computers cause errors. It's more accurate to get a human to do the task. If you write a whole new software package to do the job, then you have to debug it. Data entry builds character; you are obviously just lazy if you try to suggest an alternative.
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No, it is the genus name of cottonwood, poplar, and aspen trees.
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Well we clearly don't work with the same humans.