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Channel surfing tonight and I stopped on this episode of the Twilight Zone:
"The Twilight Zone" The Brain Center at Whipple's (TV Episode 1964) - IMDb
Where the owner of a factory replaces human employees with computers.
He himself is replaced by a robot.
It really is something that we have been seeing a lot, automation replacing human in factories, AI replacing humans in some decision making processes.
On a side note, most of the original Twilight Zone shows really stand up time.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Given the not advanced breed of monkeys I have to write software for I think the worst PIC is better than them. The machine shows an alarm with a text detailing how to fix the problem and the mandatory training taught the only way to reset the condition? Abruptly shut down the power! It happens again (because the condition is still valid)? Abruptly shut down the power! Rinse and repeat until the poor PC inside the machine gives up then call our company threatening law action because "ze safwar dasz no wooking".
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I don't remember the particular episode but yes, it was a wonderful series.
As to automation, I find it odd that we see this as a new thing. When I started work in a big utilities office, we had a typing pool, a room full of comptometer operators (remember those?), a whole stack of people making punch cards and numerous other people doing jobs that simply don't exist nowadays.
Ned Ludd and his mates were predicting the end of employment due to automation way back in the 18th century but we've seen time and time again that when one activity becomes obsolete a new one is created.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Very much agree. I think it has to do with the AI buzzword.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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See: Allan Sherman - Automation - YouTube[^]
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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I will be moving to new role next month with different organization. I have been with current employer for 6.5 years and built around 30 solutions in that time span. Now that I am leaving I need to handover all those solutions to external company. They are not filling the role for now but outsourcing the work. I have already setup all the documentations I have in a nice folder structure by application. Made sure all the source code is there in version control server. I will be having one on one meeting with company this Friday.
Any tips for smooth handover ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Run away as fast as you can.
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You need to have several KT sessions to help the team transition information.
Meet the outsourcing team and have at least 2 hour sessions per day (maybe for a week) to do a complete transition.
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Leave your contact details.....or not.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Don't give them any contact details. Don't say they can contact you if they need something. And don't tell them that they not delete that one line of code which reverse the direction of Earth's rotation, unleashes lizard people and confirms illuminati. 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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virang_21 wrote: Any tips for smooth handover ?
Drink an entire bottle of gin and forget to show up! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Would an elephant skin doctor be a pachydermatologist?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I believe one would have to be pretty thick-skinned to become one of those.
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No! An elephant skin-doctor is Dr Big!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Would an elephant proctologist examine a-Nellie?
"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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Don't go have a cow, but judging by the previous responses, I herd it would be best to trunk-ate this thread.
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Only if he's from Pakistan...?
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Or perhaps from Pachystan?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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...falls on April Fools Day this year. I'm going to tell my kids I've hidden chocolate eggs all round the house but really there will be nothing.
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User: Technical term used by developers. See Idiot.
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That's nothing - my eldest has birthday on the 1st of April - she will regret it for the coming 11 years (then it happens again)
(we celebrate birthday according to Hebrew calendar, so it moves around the Gregorian year, but this year we are lucky)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Pom Pey wrote: I'm going to tell my kids
You're either going to be a bastard of a father or a tiresome old fool, depending on the age of your kids.
Software Zen: delete this;
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