Re: Hell is ... ?

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From: songbird
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 11:47

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Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
> Hell is being brought in as a contractor to take over the
> company's only product when its author has left to pursue
> his career elsewhere and proved to be a probably-underpaid
> engineer but a grossly-overpaid self-taught junior programmer
> who produced several pages of completely undocumented code
> with a mixture of structured programming and go-to-labels
> all intertwined with no indenting.
>
> BTDTWTTS.

  the dream i had last night.

  i was at old work site and took system down by
accident and everyone was scrambling to figure out
what happened and doing recovery.  this is back in
the day when reboot and reload from tapes took 
12-14hrs if things went right...

  luckily this never happened for real, but i did
have some crashes and power issues that would take
the system down once in a while.  eventually all
replaced by mini computer and life was a lot easier
after that (being able to have any kind of UPS to
ride out power issues and if needed shut down in a
well defined state).

  songbird

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