• (nodebb)

    Well of course the HPC ran out of time. They kept finding catalogue items that weren't on the frist sample - that invalidates the original specification and quote.

  • (nodebb)

    Composing the report in Paint would be the obvious next step. Pixel-perfect every time!

  • (nodebb)

    In my experience HPC companies often put the rawest people into doing the jobs so they can train them and make money at the same time. One time my employer made a proposal to a potential customer to do a project for them, all of us that were there would be the ones doing the work. The guy from EDS stood up and said he could have a 100 people show up tomorrow to start working. They hired EDS on the spot. Who knows where they got those 100 people from, and how much they cost.

  • (nodebb)

    I expect this was HPC's way of displaying only certain items -- something that could have happened if they understood how WHERE works

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  • (nodebb) in reply to mynameishidden

    In my experience HPC companies often put the rawest people into doing the jobs so they can train them

    You also mentioned EDS, and it's not quite as simple as that. Or maybe it is, but different. Back in the day, EDS would hire new graduates from pretty much any major, and certainly with no preference for or against actual software engineering / computer science degrees. The new hires went to a training centre, I believe in Dallas, for six months, with a contract term saying that if the new hire left after a total of less than two years, the poor sod would have to pay back some notional cost of the training (possibly pro-rata'ed by how much of the two years is left).

    I pursued the opportunity for a bit, but found something else that wouldn't have required me to spend six months in Dallas... (Could have been worse... It could have involved spending six months on Dallas.)

  • (nodebb)

    "At no point, in the testing process, did anyone try this report with a new item?"

    Remember "Jurassic Park" (the book), when the maintenance team enters the expected number of dinosaurs into the tracking software, and "Hey, it worked" because the tracker found that many. Only then did the smart math guy tell them to enter "expected number plus 100" and guess what happened

  • (nodebb)

    I am curious what a "Light Thief" is.

    Is there a "Heavy Thief?"

    Or a "Darkness Thief?"

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