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Brent Jenkins wrote: In my place he'd get promoted
Can I send you my resume?
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The same here.
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No, I actually don't care (when it happens to you) 
However that prove two facts:
1. Independent testing works very well.
2. The 'moving average' of whatever physical quantity you are measuring isn't that important.
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CPallini wrote: The 'moving average' of whatever physical quantity you are measuring isn't that important.
No, it's only an indicator, used to "smooth out" the daily deltas and provide a "rough guess" of future values.
But it's damn annoying to have it be wrong for so long and not notice... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You have to be positive and see the bright side of it, you know, every leap years, at February... 
By the way, I know a guy who made a mistake in the computation of human sera dilution in the program controlling an electromedical device...
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Seen it, done it.
One favourite was a statutory pension calculation and having a right old barney with the client. They were convinced our numbers were too low and, should any member have a low pension the statutory part should have caused it to be higher and they would be breaking the law if they didn't meet the statutory component.
After several test cases with real data, I found the problem. They had been rounding the wrong way. For years! In some cases they had even been over paying pensions.
veni bibi saltavi
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I have had similar experiences where data has been checked by three people and none of them spotted the incorrect population of data. We ended up sending out 30,000 emails to largely the wrong people.
In the case mentioned above it was because when you sort a dataset within SAS the sorting is lost as soon as that dataset is used within a SQL statement. So our data looked good on the sort, however as the sort was lost when that dataset was subsequently queried nobody spotted it.
It happens to everyone given time 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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OriginalGriff wrote: Until I realise the Excel formula is using 29 days data and dividing by 30...and has been doing that for 3 years
Your whole life was a lie!
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I thought that was the cake?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That would be convenient as there is no spoon to eat the cake with 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Excel formula is using 29 days data and dividing by 30...and has been doing that for 3 years
So you could have been a trillionaire, but now you just get by?
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Out of curiosity, why do you have the number of days hard-coded? Excel can easily determine the number of days in a range.
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Well, that's just silly talk!
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Gets the cake from honoured leader [6]
What process is used in making cake?
veni bibi saltavi
modified 18-Sep-15 6:31am.
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I would say "REDLEA" but is that a cake? 
I do know that's a chicken shop.
I ain't got no signature.
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No, that isn't right, you got one white peg though
veni bibi saltavi
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"BAKING"?
I get the "KING" part, but not sure about "BA".
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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BA = honoured, as an Bachelor or Art; tenuous at best
Whatevs, it's you come Monday
veni bibi saltavi
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Oh! I totally forgot I am up for FSOW as well...
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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∂óŎŎÓÓòƍ (8)
No clues to start.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Balloons? 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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You're up next week!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Oh, I didn't anticipate that to be correct. Sorry for spoiling the fun. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Balloons
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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You're so good at making these up that I am not sure I want to answer them anymore. This is entrtaining.
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