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Marc Clifton26-Sep-17 1:49

Marc Clifton

26-Sep-17 1:49

This is one of those learning moments. The one where you learn "it's just a job, I am emotionally detached from it."

Followed by a slow decline in productivity, years of lethargy, and a sudden interest in other more rewarding activities. Smile | :)

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CodeWraith26-Sep-17 2:03

CodeWraith

26-Sep-17 2:03

Marc Clifton wrote:
Followed by a slow decline in productivity, years of lethargy, and a sudden interest in other more rewarding activities.

You forgot losing the will to live somewhere along that road.

I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.

Foothill26-Sep-17 3:12

Foothill

26-Sep-17 3:12

The path to self-discovery is rarely an easy one to traverse. Wink | ;)

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CodeWraith26-Sep-17 3:58

CodeWraith

26-Sep-17 3:58

It was more the path to self destruction.

I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.

jgakenhe26-Sep-17 5:16

jgakenhe

26-Sep-17 5:16

You nailed it! That is happening to me. I sent out a requirements document last evening and my mentee/junior went around behind my back this morning, straight to the business unit and contradicted the agreed requirements. And to make things worse, she already started coding; which means I'll end up rewriting it.

dandy7226-Sep-17 2:43

dandy72

26-Sep-17 2:43

I once had a boss (former coder--always a bad combination) who had been hounding me for months to implement a feature that I had explained was pretty much going to require someone full-time to maintain because it was going to have to work with constantly changing data.

One weekend he wrote the "feature" himself and bragged about it to me on Monday morning. It's one of those features that worked on his system, but pretty much nowhere else--ever. Lets just say that it worked okay for 0.000001% of the data it had to work with.

Then the feature became a bullet point in the marketing material. Fortunately it became apparent that nobody but him actually cared, because in the end nobody bought the product because of the feature (or else everybody would've complained it didn't work).

Simon Ferry26-Sep-17 2:45

Simon Ferry

26-Sep-17 2:45

Everything depends from the situation, so I have many ways to calm myself - reading, screaming or just deap breath

PeejayAdams26-Sep-17 3:10

PeejayAdams

26-Sep-17 3:10

You write stuff. Some idiot breaks it. You get paid to fix it. Repeat ad infinitum.

Dispiriting, maybe, but if there weren't so many human wrecking balls in the IT trade, there wouldn't be all that many jobs in the IT trade. The bottom line? WE NEED BAD DEVELOPERS!

98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.

GuyThiebaut26-Sep-17 3:16

GuyThiebaut

26-Sep-17 3:16

It sucks when people just go ahead and do that - if you work in IT long enough it's bound to happen.
I would just say make it clear to them that they get to clear up the mess as they acted against your advice and when you weren't there.

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Slacker00726-Sep-17 4:07

Slacker007

26-Sep-17 4:07

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
that a new feature has been added to the application while you were on vacation and it ruined half of the existing features

I call that epic team work and communication....not.

Good luck with that. Been there so many times, I can't feel the pain. Smile | :)

Joe Woodbury26-Sep-17 7:41

Joe Woodbury

26-Sep-17 7:41

Or, after a long, and delayed, flight to Europe and a welcome sleep at the hotel, you finally log into your email only to be confronted by a message full of exclamation points that your library is crashing causing the world to end.

This is followed by the message, "Never mind, I fixed it."

You groan, knowing that said developer is, shall we say, less than knowledgeable. You get back, look at the "fix" and discover it's completely wrong and causes far worse problems (for which you are now blamed.) You check the original bug report and discover the person who filed it is using your API incorrectly. (Then you discover that there was a bug, but it had nothing to do with all the hysteria and, in fact, nobody has actually triggered it.)

True story from 1992 at a large, at the time, network company.

Member 1339551426-Sep-17 20:34

Member 13395514

26-Sep-17 20:34

Think of a happy thought, nothing's constant.

WSO CCC OTD 2017-09-26

OriginalGriff25-Sep-17 22:02

Re: WSO CCC OTD 2017-09-26

25-Sep-17 22:02

A short account we recycled, then blamed another! (7)

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LabVIEWstuff25-Sep-17 22:30

LabVIEWstuff

25-Sep-17 22:30

Accused?

Short account -> Acc
recycled -> used

Andy B

Re: WSO CCC OTD 2017-09-26 - we have a winner!

OriginalGriff25-Sep-17 22:32

Re: WSO CCC OTD 2017-09-26

25-Sep-17 22:32

Well done - you are up tomorrow. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Munchies_Matt26-Sep-17 19:58

Munchies_Matt

26-Sep-17 19:58

Accused!

OK, late, but I only just looked at it. Smile | :)

Re: WSO CCC OTD 2017-09-26 - we have a win ... er ... um ...

OriginalGriff26-Sep-17 22:15

Re: WSO CCC OTD 2017-09-26 - we have a win ... er ... um ...

26-Sep-17 22:15

You are up ... no, no you're not. Bit late for the four hour deadline, I think.

Maybe I made it a bit too easy, but I liked it.

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Munchies_Matt26-Sep-17 22:18

Munchies_Matt

26-Sep-17 22:18

Labview got there before me I see. Well, hours before me in fact.

Anyway, I like them easy, they are the only ones I can do! Smile | :)

Like this game...

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter25-Sep-17 21:00

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

25-Sep-17 21:00

Just realized that Microsoft's support side offers a virtual agent (preview) and started to play with...

Me: I'm hungry...
VA: Could you try to rephrase the question? Using different words can sometimes help.
Me: Didn't ate in 14 hours already...
VA: Suggestions
        anniversary update stuck @99% how to solve please
        Today was updating hte Anniversary Update started Around 12 pm but since 5pm instalation stuck at 99% please help me to solve ...
        14 Hours of Messages disappear!
        All post in the last 14 hours disappeasred a few minutes ago! ...
        Losing 100 Pounds in 5 Months | Kirk Evans Blog
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VA: Did this solve the problem?

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

Member 1339551425-Sep-17 21:06

Member 13395514

25-Sep-17 21:06

This is really funny, I haven't tried it yet. Let me check it. Laugh | :laugh:

OriginalGriff25-Sep-17 21:09

25-Sep-17 21:09

Keep going! Perhaps you can get it to work as well as Tay did: Microsoft's Tay has been shut down after it became racist - Business Insider[^]

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter25-Sep-17 21:14

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

25-Sep-17 21:14

It seems that whenever you write a sentence with more than two words it runs the sentence thru a search engine (bing?) and displays the results...
For two word sentences are asks for more details...
Apparently no AI here so can't break it down really...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

OriginalGriff25-Sep-17 22:16

25-Sep-17 22:16

A lack of Intelligence at Microsoft? Who would have expected that? Laugh | :laugh:

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CodeWraith25-Sep-17 23:35

CodeWraith

25-Sep-17 23:35

ELIZA[^] has finally come back! That joke is now 50 years old!

Quote:
ELIZA's creator, Weizenbaum regarded the program as a method to show the superficiality of communication between man and machine, but was surprised by the number of individuals who attributed human-like feelings to the computer program, including Weizenbaum’s secretary.Many academics believed that the program would be able to positively influence the lives of many people, particularly those suffering from psychological issues and that it could aid doctors working on such patients’ treatment. While ELIZA was capable of engaging in discourse, ELIZA could not converse with true understanding. However, many early users were convinced of ELIZA’s intelligence and understanding, despite Weizenbaum’s insistence to the contrary.

I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.