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No. The malfunction is in the same direction as the action (hence they cancel each other out), an opposite malfunction would lead to greater success.
From this we can see that all action is a waste of time and should revert to that other thingy - something about remaining at rest.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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In 2012 I voiced some ideas about some consultancy work I wanted from a provider of software we used. This was generally considered to be a good idea.
We began a discussion with the vendor in early 2013.
In February 2014 we actually got a consultant on site to go over our setup and make some recommendations for improvements, upgrades, and so on.
We quickly decided to go with most of his recommendations.
Over the next 10 months or so the proposal was batted back and forth between various managers, project managers, accountants, and a revised amount of work was authorised.
So in February 2015 the fella is back, and we are rattling through the work, it is really good, it'll be of huge benefit to the business, we're ready to go live.
So the PM goes off to ask when we can go live, we'll be ready from this Thursday, we recommend a week's testing next week just to make sure nothing existing will be broken, we haven't changed anything but there is a product upgrade and some more stuff on top / around it.
And the PM comes back with a prospective go live date, assuming the business can get the resource to test in time.
June.
Strap yourself in and hold in tight, we move mighty quick around here.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Government job? 
Nah, it can't be as it sounds as if you've actually got something for the money that's been spent!
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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The government has no problem with spending money. The US is so far in debt that there's not enough money IN THE WORLD to pay it back - ever. And the amount of debt keeps on going up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'm not sure who is dumber, the Americans that keep putting these politicians in office (I say that as an American who donates time and money as an active voter, delegate, volunteer for candidates who lose nearly every primary/convention every election)...
... or the fools who buy debt like a commodity!
Actually, to be perfectly honest, a few of the guys/gals I support have been elected, and others have become influential in other ways after the elections. Hopefully more people become involved, because that is the only way to turn things around.
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I know the feeling. 
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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I feel for you. My last contract was similar - the project I was supposedly working on had been 'in the works' (a one year project) was in its 6th year. I put it down to the difference between what my boss called the 'family' vs the 'corporate' cultures in place.
Family culture works on handshakes, phone conversations, and lunch time promises.
Corporate culture works on meetings, agreed on requirements, deadlines, and status reports.
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They've become incredibly scared of risk.
I'd be quite prepared to wager that the cost to the business of complete failure of my stuff and then backing it out is far, far less than the cost of weeks of testing by a team of people from all around the business, a couple of project managers, several meetings of people, most of whom have no interest in the thing but have been invited because of protocol.
I just want to do stuff, see it working, do some other stuff 
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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You should verify, that they mean June of this year 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Ah, Good point!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Project Manager == Business Prevention Manager
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chriselst wrote: June.
I suppose it would be silly to ask if your company uses an agile dev process? 
/ravi
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Of course they do. You've never heard of a 5 month sprint?
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I think the technical term for that is "stroll".
/ravi
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I love stuff like this. Wish I could give you +55. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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That must have taken some serious work to make - very, very impressive!
Wish I could make things like that...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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get a mill and a lathe...
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I love this stuff!!!!
Thanks for the link. You rock!
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Did you see clarksons extreme machines when he had the guy who made the mini ferari on, and the whole thing worked, the engine, gearbox, the lot. amazing bit of work.
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No: not seen that. I've worked on full size engines but never anything that intricate. The skill and devotion required are remarkable.
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I had a garage for a few years back in the 80s. Used to do a lot of work on cars. Got fed up with it in the end, its cold, dirty work. yuck!
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What an amazing piece of workmanship. When he put those coins on top of the intakes that really impressed me. 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Very cool, but I wouldn't call it an engine. It doesn't produce power, it runs on compressed air.
None-the-less, it is a beautiful piece of craftsmanship.
Marc
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It has taken me all afternoon to try and downgrade my tablet, and the android is still on his back with his belly open....but it looks like it's actually sending things...and Android is booting!
Everything has been difficult: the cabling (short fast-charge cable that comes with Nexus 7 pulls too much power from USB, and disables my PC keyboard, longer slow charge cable doesn't get recognised as Nexus device, probably because Lollipop is in "slow motion mode" and not talkine to windows), download of 4.4 from Google is in a TGZ file, which contains a TAR file, which has a ZIP and an BAT file, but not the EXE or DLL files you need to use them, ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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