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Humans make mistakes, but I prefer them over runtime errors in VB6.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"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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Why should heads roll because someone made a mistake? Is that the standard you apply to yourself whenever you slip up?
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Possible personal health information reveal? If so, people will get in trouble because it is against the law. Has nothing to do with Griff, etc.
Here is the States it is a federal crime to reveal someone else's PII, PHI, or other health information without their prior consent. Not sure if that was the case here, but I think it was.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) | CDC[^]
Not sure what the laws are like in the UK/EU.
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This was an SMS message sent to individuals asking them to undertake a test for suspected lung cancer, so no personal information would have been revealed to anyone else.
Quickly followed by a withdrawal and apology.
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These were SMS messages sent to individuals asking them to undertake a test for suspected lung cancer, so nothing would have been revealed to anyone else.
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That depends on the seriousness of the mistake: in this case you have either revealed personal info to 8,000 strangers, or scared the **** out of 7,999 of them just as you prepare to shut up the surgery so they can't contact you to find out.
If your doctor texted you that message and went off for Christmas, how would you feel?
When you send data to anyone, you have to accept responsibility - and that means making certain that the right message goes only to the right person.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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An SMS message is private so no personal information was revealed to anyone else. This was probably done by a junior member of the surgery staff working under pressure who accidently clicked on the wrong thing without realising it. It happens, in this case it was quickly fixed, and apart from a couple of people who made a meal of it and a BBC reporter trying to create a stir, nobody seems to have been too concerned.
I do hope that when next time at work you make a slip up that could have unwelcome consequences but is quickly corrected you take ownership and _insist_ that you are demoted or even fired. After all forgiveness is not an option and heads should always roll.
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In answer to your question I would certainly be disconcerted and possibly annoyed for the hour it took to rectify, but I wouldn't make a massive fuss and I certainly wouldn't be demanding that "heads roll" (which means demotion or dismissal). If I demanded anything it would be for the person who made the mistake to have better training and their workload monitored to ensure they weren't stressed into making other similar (or worse) mistakes.
But it seems to be a growing theme (egged on by social media) to demand revenge on those who are usually doing their best to help under difficult circumstances and occasionally slip up. We should be kinder, and treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves....
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#Worldle #341 2/6 (100%)
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Had to peek to get name right
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Wordle 558 4/6*
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The moment was caught in the middle of a jiffy. (10)
The moment = time
was caught in the = insertion indicator
middle = cen ter [EN]
middle = cen tre [UK]
of a jiffy = definition
Jiffy
International CCC - 12/29/2022
Puzzles are eligible to be posted at 00:00 GMT
Clue remains available for 24 hours.
Winners may become Setters if they choose.
modified 29-Dec-22 19:55pm.
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NANOSECOND?
Informally, that's a "jiffy", but the formal definition is 3E-24 seconds - the time it takes for light to travel one fermi.
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Sorry for the late reply, you were really close. I have never heard of that definition of a Jiffy, where did you get it from?
I was aiming for Centimeter
Edit:
Last two days I've been really busy with some things. This was a CCC 'reject' I wrote ages ago and never posted. The one I am posting today is a reject too. I'll spend some time tonight writing some new puzzles.
modified 29-Dec-22 20:11pm.
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Not sure what the original source was (it's been decades since I looked it up), but "jiffy" is used as a time period over here - Wiki lists the Fermi definition: Jiffy (time) - Wikipedia[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Still reading this fantastic book, which continues to be fantastic: Modern Software Engineering[^].
There is so much great content in this book, but this from Chapter 3 really strikes a chord (as someone who evaluated the use of Entity Framework numerous times over 15 years but could never feel comfortable with it).
It's why many of us eschew, "Just use the latest library. It solves all your problems."
Quote: We talk a lot about change in our industry. We get excited about new technologies and new products, but do these changes really βmove the dialβ on software development? Many of the changes that exercise us donβt seem to make as much difference as we sometimes seem to think that they will.
My favorite example of this was demonstrated in a lovely conference presentation by βChristin Gorman.β1 In it, Christin demonstrates that when using the then popular open source object relational mapping library Hibernate, it was actually more code to write than the equivalent behavior written in SQL, subjectively at least; the SQL was also easier to understand. Christin goes on to amusingly contrast software development with making cakes. Do you make your cake with a cake mix or choose fresh ingredients and make it from scratch?
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Correct.
I don't use those tools. And I hand-craft all of my SQL.
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Same here...
I have kept very much abreast of all the latest software developments but ave found none to be of much benefit.
Most seem to just add a lot of complexity while not really providing any real advantage.
Probably the best advancement has been the List(T) implementation. Internally it adds efficiency and provides basically the same capabilities as an ArrayList.
However, out of habit, I still use ArrayLists since what I use them for is small sets of data where the internal efficiencies make very little difference.
All in all, I still use the basic language constructs of C# and VB.NET as I have always used them, and my code works just fine.
Never understood all the superfluous language additions over the years. They seem to don nothing but make the languages harder to understand...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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