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On Aug 5, 8:18 am, docdw...@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:
In article <8edcf9f9-cd9e-4712-ab3f-79df57bee...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

klsha...@xxxxxxx <klsha...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 1, 11:20 pm, Robert <n...@xxxxxx> wrote:

My work goes out over my signature.  There are times when I disagree with
what I told must be done and I make my disagreements known, at times to
the point of commenting the code with words like 'chuckle-head'... but if
the code is over my signature then it is my work.  There is a point where
I have said 'This I Will Not Do'... now, how I determine that such a point
has been reached is another matter, entire, and perhaps a better subject
for consideration as Aesthetics... but some things I will not do.

There are some things I will not stand by and watch done, either; if He
Who Signs My Time*** says 'Wait here while I use this loaded pistol as a
hammer' I go away, despite the Direct Order.

I chose the example of plumber and electrician carefully, Mr Shafer... a
task, to my mind, includes a deadline; it might be difficult to get an
Electrician's Certification Exam re-scheduled in time to get the plumber
to study for it, pass it and then re-wire the generator... not impossible,
just difficult.  Likewise, were I told 'You have three days to learn this
particular chip's Assembley language and code this heart-pacemaker warning
notification routine'... no.  This I will not do, there's always another
job.

Years ago I worked with a fellow who had coded some of New York City's
original emergency response telephone system.  He said that the gravity of
the situation was such that afterwards he would only work with financial
systems; his explanation was along the lines of:

'You screw up on a 911 call, the ambulance goes to the wrong street or the
wrong block of the right street and somebody dies.  In finance... it's
only money.'


Well put, Mr. DD. I am glad that you pointed out that in Matters of
Public Safety, the bar is raised higher. And I cheerily second your
distinction between plumber and electrician. My saintly Father
likewise took umbrage at his occupation, that of a pipefitter, being
compared to that of a plumber. Fitting pipes running cherry hot at
some odd hundred degrees fahrenheit is not quite the same as turning
the wrench on the house sewage line.

It is a smart fellow who can see the distant horizon in these
implications. Like the ex-Marine I worked with on the Dept of Motor
Vehicles system, and who insisted on doing his finest work in the auto
registration lookup. His rationale: the plate number was the first
thing the state's finest called in when stopping a vehicle, and the
information returned to him, was indeed, potentially a matter of life
and death.

Likewise, an error in rewiring a generator causes a building to go up in
flames and an error in a pacemaker's firmware causes someone to die.  I
cannot stop a Corner-Office Idiot from making such orders, I can only make
sure that what I have signed off on does not, to the best of my own
knowledge, cause a catastrophe.

[snip]

Question: What is the average velocity of the winner in each of the
Indianapolis 500 mile races?
Answer:   Zero.

Really?  I would have said 'that depends on when and how the measurement
was taken.'

When the start-point and end-point are co-inciding, and the time
elapsed between start and finish be nonzero (though no matter how
small, any epsilon will do, as my calculus teacher taught me), the
answer is always zero. Or more precisely, the zero vector. (The zero
vector is that vector, which when added to any vector, returns said
vector unchanged. It is, therefore, the "additive identify" in vector
algebra. But that is so long ago, that I could stand to be corrected.)

Ken

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