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Not enough incentive, sorry.
Do keep struggeling with dates though 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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In theory...
ISO 8601 should handle that -- repeated datetimes IIRC -- but in practice, you're the only one who knows what you mean. And a month later, not even you will.
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Today was rather unusual - I was put into a homicidal mood twice before noon. Arguably, it would be a humane act. I took a walk to a supermarket and bought coffee and potato chips. A lot of coffee and potato chips*. Coffee is the usual way I handle time between applications. Also, during them.
Some determined, without consulting IT at all, that they would create their own numerical employee IDs. OK - we cope. Then, the idiot director of that department realized she wasn't in her own employee database - so she added herself and deliberately reused an existing number. There are all sorts of triggers and such - the horror propagated. The moron had 10,000 possible number to choose from (each year) for a staff of under fifty.**
A bright spot in all of this: they're so lazy about doing their job that it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been.
* crisps to those of you who are hopelessly bound to a cloudy rainy isle.
** functionally, it's a department with the real company but is considered a separate entity.
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If you plan it right, you can leave enough bugs for the rest of the team to fix, so you are rested and ready to go when the next project comes along. If you don{t have enough time, thgen you need to take a vacation!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Hah hah hah I laugh, I cry, I just wish I had time between applications.
In 13 years as a contractor with this organisation I have not once had no project under development, usually 2-3 at any one time. And I do not even have to do the support work once it goes to production.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Your fingers have fingertips yet your toes don't have toetips. Yet you can tiptoe bot not tipfinger
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That was just plain excruciating.
As it turns out, even if it was cruciating[^], it would make no difference.
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You'd need to be quite a gymnast to tipfinger, I'd have thought. I'm definitely not going to try it!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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too many tipples can lead to a tipover
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I agree! Toetally!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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That was SOOOO funnny....
....20 years ago
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: That was SOOOO funnny....
....20 years ago
We're not exactly being flooded with posts promoting your cutting edge humor. 
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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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Scene1 : Boss checks the perf stats & graphs of server , not happy.
Scene2: Boss says, "I think we got a bunch of bad coders that's making the perf go down. We need to write optimized code, should use less memory/cpu, blah, blah".
Scene3: I check with finance team if it's okay to add few hundred more bucks to the server bill.
- Affirmative!
Scene4: Upgraded container to next tier.
Scene5: New reports to Boss. Boss- "I think our devs are real fast, should be efficient developers, I like it". (JUST because the graph peaks have settled down)
haha. I summed it up like "We did tweaks on both the ends , i.e some fixes on the code & some minor 'change' on the container.
"Changes on the code" : Like deleting empty lines & some formatting.
I think these bosses should never get exposed to any of these server stats.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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why do people pay for a certain load level become unhappy when it's running above 50%.
Really they should be happiest if it runs in the band 85% - 95% all the time - that's getting value for the money paid, particularly if it's physically on someone else's server.
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You know, if customers complaints our applications "work" slow at times, we could really see, it's a network/bandwidth issue from their side. it's their own infra problem. And it's a temporary one.
But the moment the boss hears these complaints, he checks the server stats-graphs. It wouldn't have reached even 60% on the peak levels on the resources. He immediately feels code is not optimized & its' lavishly using up resources and that's slowing down the applications. & he conveys it to the teams straight, immediately.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Lopatir wrote: they should be happiest if it runs in the band 85% - 95% all the time
As a member of the Engineering team I wouldn't be that comfortable. When for any reason (maybe a successful campaign?) the server load spikes you're in for a lot of complaints and extra hours to pull up whatever crashed. A safer bound would be a constant 50-70%, which means most resources are not wasted and there's still room in case of unforeseen traffic peaks.
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
modified 11-Apr-18 8:35am.
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You cannae change the laws of Physics! Right, Scotty?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Nae but I can alwaes cheat 'em.
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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Not just sustained peaks either. Your hourly average load might be only 40% but if you drill down to 5 second time slices and see spikes to 90% on that scale your users are already seeing intermittent latency spikes when too many hit the server in rapid succession.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Whoops, I forgot to mention that. Spikes should always be trapped and logged atuomatically for further investigation.
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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Looks like you are ready for the next level, then.
That would be creating this kind of diversion for the boss and routinely 'fix' them. This will not only make you look good, it also would keep his nose out of things you don't want his advice on.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 11-Apr-18 8:32am.
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"You can't monitor a system without altering its behavior."
His performance reports must be putting a heavy load on the system. 
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Next time, tell your boss that your bullshit load detector is peaking and he should find a job more suitable to his skills, like sanitation "engineer."
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Hardware improvements make miracles. You* may even tolerate Java IDEs nowdays.
(*) You, not me.
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