Re: [OT] Musings After Go-Live

In article <11bo6ss1h9rv29f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
HeyBub <heybubNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> ... and they can be horrifically complex... how do you calculate pay
>> for a float-pool nurse from the Indian Health Service who reports
>> regular hours, overtime hours, Sunday shift differential and paid
>> holiday time in the same 24-hour shift? (Answer: it depends on
>> whether they are covered by the union contract or not.)

[snip]

>How about a lawyer billing by the hour who takes a cross-country air trip -
>crossing three time zones - and submits billing for 27 hours in one day?

It reminds me of the joke about the lawyer who was hit by a bus and was
met at the Pearly Gates (hey, I said it was a joke!) by Saint Peter:

SP: 'I just wanted to greet the oldest human being, ever!'

L: 'Me? I'm not... *wasn't* that old.'

SP: 'Don't be modest... who else - after Biblical times - has lived to be
one hundred and seventy-seven years old?'

L: 'Ummmm... I don't understand, I was forty-eight.'

SP: (shuffles papers) 'Oh... I see... we were going by submitted billable
hours.'

>
>> Now... the system I worked on converting takes input from four feeder
>> systems, each of the feeders supplies data in a common format... but
>> each of the feeders sends bad data down the line.

[snip]

>I agree that data should be validated at entry, that a report writer should
>not have to make decisions about the integrity of a field.

.... and I agree that I should be tall, young, handsome and the scion of a
wealthy family... oh, and a good singer, too.

>I worked on one
>project, dirt-simple: Read a master file and create a report. One of the
>fields (allegedly) contained the depth of the oil well in feet. Sometimes
>the field had a number, say "4705," meaning the well was producing at 4,705
>feet. Other times the field had a number like "-8650" meaning there was a
>mile-and-a-half of pipe sticking up in the air.

Trying to reach those low-molecular-weight aliphatics, perhaps.

>
>Before I even got to that situation I asked: "In what order are these data?"
>The answer was: "It depends on what was last done to the file." "You mean
>you SORT the MASTER FILE?" I gasped. "Sure...."

Well... disk space's expensive, you know.

DD

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