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Dirty Dancing in the Rain.
Dirty Flashdancing.
modified 14-Nov-14 13:13pm.
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Now that has to be Rambo: First Blood
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I don't recall the title, but I think that one of the classic and memorable quotes was: "Nobody throws baby in the water!"
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944 ----- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
modified 14-Nov-14 7:07am.
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Stutter and Splutter Island?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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V. wrote: *** Clear dirty thoughts, first ***
That's where I fail.
Life is too shor
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V. wrote: Clear dirty thoughts, first
I can't.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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You beat me to it.
Jeremy Falcon
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Spencer Elden[^] - The early years.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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V. wrote: *** Clear dirty thoughts, first ***
Impossible!
Jeremy Falcon
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The other guys
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
-Douglas MacArthur
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We could do this, if we invest and do it right then it will be of great benefit to the company.
It's a business critical system, we need it up, we need it available, we need it working as well as it possibly can, it will be fully monitored so that we know problems are happening before they do, the right people will be notified.
Let's get the licenses, let's get the machines, let's get the expert advice, and let's do this right.
It's going to cost this much.
Great, let's get this submitted, let's do this, this is a good idea.
But do we really need this bit?
And can't you work that out yourself?
And we don't currently have this so can we cope without it?
And couldn't we reuse this?
And what if we see how we do without this bit?
And if they just show you one thing then you can't do the rest on your own?
And. And. And.
Congratulations, we've delivered a barely adequate solution that someone needs to hand crank on an almost daily basis.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Isn't that the Minimum Viable Product approach?
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No.
It is depressing penny pinching wank that occurs when companies are run by accountants rather than humans.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: It is depressing penny pinching wank that occurs when companies are run by accountants
And that is what has created the economic climate we are in: accountants don't look to the long term, it's all immediate gratification.
Which means "outsource the manufacturing - we'll save 50p a unit!", and then wondering why the home market has collapsed (it's because nobody has a job any more, so they can't buy your products)
Which means "get the money from them now - we'll sort it out later", and then wondering why they get slapped with billions in PPI claims.
Which means ... you get the idea.
Accountants have a place; they are needed. But they shouldn't make the rules. And neither should the banks.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Accountants have a place
At the bottom of the corporate food chain, just after short-order chefs.
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you mean somewhere between a roustie [^]and a scaff [^] as they tend to be a scaff[^]...but we wont mention the other definition that involves animals.....
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OriginalGriff wrote: Accountants have a place; they are needed.
Don't tell @DalekDave that ffs he will think he is indispensable
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OriginalGriff wrote: And neither should the banks, or government.
FTFY
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Back in the good old days when we distributed our (expensive, leased with a maintenance agreement) software on floppy disks (it was taking up to 12 disks before we switched to the new-fangled CDs) we used to buy disks from a well known brand name and only occasionally got a failure ...which resulted in us having to send out a replacement set by expensive overnight mailing or personal delivery for more local clients. We got through a lot of disks as we patched and updated our software about every three months on average.
Our company accountant was shocked by the cost of these disks and decided to order us some no-name brand in bulk (she ordered five years supply at one go), cutting the cost by half. The incidence of failure went from 1 in 400 to 75 in 400 which meant that we basically had to send two copies of each disk set to make sure the client got one usable set - and then we still had to overnight replacement disks like crazy because of the high failure rate. The overall cost of the floppies tripled since the five-year supply was mostly used up in a single quarterly update! The mailing costs were huge, plus we had to spend the extra time duplicating the disks and were considering having to buy another duplicator and hiring an intern just to keep up. Instead, we took the remaining no-name disks and stored them in the accountants office, on the end of her desk, as a reminder - and went back to our usual supplier.
The whole "cost-saving" decision costs us thousands of dollars in wasted disks, wasted time, wasted mailings and untold costs in reputation as out clients were pi**ed off at their wasted time and the hassle and delays.
Anyone want to buy some floppy disks (no guarantee of actual function)?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 14-Nov-14 10:47am.
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Forogar wrote: The whole "cost-saving" decision costs us thousands of dollars ... And gave her more work, as more beans had to be moved around!
Mission accomplished!
Anyway, can't stop to chat. Gotta create two more bugs to fix later, before I quit for the day.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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