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"oh wow" - you are just the 476. person saying that you want your 2$ back - here you go - have a nice day -
"oh wow" - you are just the 477. person saying that you want your 2$ back - here you go - have a nice day -
"oh wow" - you are just the 478. person saying that you want your 2$ back - here you go - have a nice day -
"oh wow" - you are just the 479. person saying that you want your 2$ back - here you go - have a nice day -
Maybe the Manager has the "glitch" 
is this a signature ?
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Ha! I remember a glitch at a place I worked. Someone (not me) used a float for an amount in one place (we used ints everywhere else) and for some reason some patrons were charged $1.14 instead of $1.15 for certain transactions. I fixed the problem pretty quickly, but they made me reverse all the affected transactions and reapply them with the correct amount. They wound up paying a lot more for my effort than the original error had cost them -- hundreds of dollars in my salary as opposed to ten or twenty in missed pennies. 
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I guess it cost to be right 
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Many, many years ago the company I worked for expanded from the UK into Italy.
Because of some stupidity with the front and back ends of the system that produced the invoices, and the differences between a comma dot and dot comma decimal system the invoices produced in Italy where very, very wrong.
When this happened I ran a procedure to back out the last run of invoices, we fixed up the data and then ran it again.
This needed to be done a few times other a number of months until we finally stopped it being able to happen again.
One time I ran my procedure and it crashed because the maximum number of record locks was exceeded. So we increased and ran again. Same result. So we made the maximum ridiculously large. This time the lock table got so huge it consumed all available disc space and the server died.
I'd forgotten to include the date range and was attempting to back out every invoice transaction ever performed.
Fortunately due to the transaction scoping nothing had committed before it had crashed out.
Oh how we laughed as we tried to work out how to get a server in a locked room in Italy up and running again from the UK.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: Oh how we laughed as we tried to work out how to get a server in a locked room in Italy up and running again from the UK.
Sounds like a crackin' time. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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It's because when the NSA prints out their copy of your receipt, the fuzzy-logic OCR mixes up numbers.
Obviously, you and your credit-card company don't get the original receipt, because only the NSA is entitled to see that, so the "fuzzied" number is the one that is acted on by your credit-card company.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah, the usual "small amount" trick. It helps getting a bit of cash with no much effort:
- Retain a small amount of money on transactions (usually <0.5%; it can be higher, but should not exceed the average amount people consider insignificant).
- Give it back with a bonus to people who noticed AND complained and blamed it on the IT.
This gave you straight cash in most cases, because most people won't notice, and most people who notice won't bother for
If you do this every month for one customer out of ten, and you have billions of customer world wide, it will generate quite a lot of money.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Yes it would, the Wife has stopped there several times and this is the first time it happened.
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Your company don't want to invest in new development tools ?
It took me one year of nagging to upgrade my Windows XP with "massive" 2GB RAM machine to decent Windows 7 64bit with i7 processor. My old machine used to choke when antivirus update runs. you literally cannot navigate anywhere for at least 5 to 10 minutes every few hours.
Now I am trying to get VS2012 . I still have to work with VS2008 which feels so ancient... I recommended them to buy some decent third party tools like Telerik or DevExpress but so far it goes deaf ear.
I am at the point where I feel like I need to move on to some better workplace :sad:
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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i7, i7 f*** me I'm happy to have an i3, 64bit machine put a 32bit OS on it and then load on 6gb ram
Don't get me started on corporate policies, I am starting a whole new set of interview questions.
Does your company have a one size (minimalist) fits all hardware policy?
What is the standard configuration of your dev machines?
How many monitors do you allow your devs?
Do your devs have local admin rights?
Do you block EVERY blog/forum site on the interweb?
Do you have an open plan (bench) style office layout?
And I can think of about a dozen more things I hate about working for large corporates.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I work for one...
All our devs have i7 QuadCore/8GB/SSD/14"-17" (personal preference) laptops + external monitors / active MSDN subscriptions/local admin rights
Blogs and forums get unlocked in 2-10 days on request (if it is work related).
Should I consider myself lucky?
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I hope like hell you don't get paid more than I do as well - yes consider yourself lucky.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I never understood locking sites down for devs. You should trust that you hire people that won't waste a bunch of time on non-work stuff. They're professionals. Treat them as such.
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Well, it's not that easy...
This is not IT company and internet access is monitored/quoted/locked for many reasons. Wasting time is one of least important.
And trust me, devs (and other, non-IT profesionals) get deserved level of trust
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Greg Bair wrote: They're professionals
You have to be joking, bunch of whiney little girls!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Don't get me started on corporate policies, I am starting a whole new set of interview questions.
Does your company have a one size (minimalist) fits all hardware policy? No. Devs get special Dev machines
What is the standard configuration of your dev machines? i7, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, 500GB HDD - Either as a Desktop or Laptop
How many monitors do you allow your devs? As many as neccessary, two 23'-sized monitors at least - Or one 27' sized HD Monitor
Do your devs have local admin rights? Yes
Do you block EVERY blog/forum site on the interweb? No
Do you have an open plan (bench) style office layout? Mixed - Splitted up into small open plan areas
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You, along with Jarek can sod off, mutter mutter grumble grumble
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I've been waiting for my Windows 8 touch notebook for so long. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I completely agree there, I just finished working for one of the big 5 and they plonked me in a "hot desk" surrounded by bean counters who were on the phone constantly? I asked for somewhere quieter but was told "only partners get offices" , I said this software makes them money - fell on deaf ears - I left.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Does your company have a one size (minimalist) fits all hardware policy?
Not quite. Standard dev laptops are a step up the quality scale (faster CPU, more ram, discrete GPU, but still no SSD  ), the fact that we're able to get out of cycle upgrades by whining about performance/diskspace/etc is more significant. Despite a nominal 4 year upgrade cycle (and knowing some non-devs who ended up waiting longer than that) I got my 4th laptop at the 7 year point. I occasionally see people lugging around AlienWare laptops instead of the standard Latitude's (previously XPSes); but at least when I started that option was mostly limited to the poor bastards who had to run Oracle locally. Far too high a price.
Mycroft Holmes wrote: What is the standard configuration of your dev machines?
Not sure what the current spec is but my 18mo old system is i5-2520m (2.5ghz), 8GB, 160GB HDD, NVS 4200M (520M equivalent), w7-64.
Mycroft Holmes wrote: How many monitors do you allow your devs?
It took a big of finagling (and people say my beige box NT4 relic is worthless) but I've got 3.
Mycroft Holmes wrote: Do your devs have local admin rights?
yup
Mycroft Holmes wrote: Do you block EVERY blog/forum site on the interweb?
Just mainstream blog providers (eg the ones that arewere used for social networking. Worse is that if I were to waste an hour taking the social network training course they'd unblock farcebook/twitter on my system but not the blogs.  Supposedly if you email a request they'll unblock them in a day or two; I never bothered. Google cache is easier.
Mycroft Holmes wrote: Do you have an open plan (bench) style office layout?
Most labs are; but our cubes are 8x10 or 10x10 with walls at about 5'8" or 6'4".
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Does your company have a one size (minimalist) fits all hardware policy? Yes
What is the standard configuration of your dev machines? Win XP, 2.66Ghz, 1GB ram, 100GB HD
How many monitors do you allow your devs? One, 17"
Do your devs have local admin rights? Yes
Do you block EVERY blog/forum site on the interweb? No, only some
Do you have an open plan (bench) style office layout? Yes, but jumbled
Also we develop in Visual C++ 6.00. Yes, you read that right.
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Ok so you deserve to get paid more than I do!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It might be more complicated than that.
We cannot upgrade compilers because we still need to support old libraries and client still work on XP (it took heavy lifting to have them moved from Win2000 to Xp a couple of years ago).
I'd rather be phishing!
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At least you can try your applications on what the users out there have. I know plenty of example where "it worked on the over-boosted" dev machine, but not at the customer.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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