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This is Hooovahh
Go home Altenbach, you're drunk. Or more likely is you replied to the wrong thread since I know you are doing some TIFF development elsewhere.
"Well you can do this one of two ways. You can try to do it the right way, but that is hard. Or you can do it the wrong way, which will eventually become even harder." - Hooovahh
"Yeah no good can come from this" - Program Manager
@Hooovahh wrote:
Or more likely is you replied to the wrong thread since I know you are doing some TIFF development elsewhere.
Sorry for stepping on your thread, but looking at the history here there are definitely other contributions with examples where the specs are tighter than really needed. 😮 It was meant along those lines. 😉
Once (only once) did I tell an experienced toolmaker "Just make it like I drew it." In my defense, I did say "please" and he didn't laugh when it didn't work and I asked him to remake it with his suggestion. I hear young engineers do that all the time...
@altenbach wrote:
@Hooovahh wrote:
Or more likely is you replied to the wrong thread since I know you are doing some TIFF development elsewhere.
Sorry for stepping on your thread, but looking at the history here there are definitely other contributions with examples where the specs are tighter than really needed. 😮 It was meant along those lines. 😉
Working on a test setup for a space company, they simply deduced our specs by applying a factor to get their spec...
The only factor in the system was (absolute) time.
Our timing needed to be factors more accurate then the clock in their system, the Galileo satellites.
It resulted in specs like:
Message should arrive at absolute time T +/- 75 ns, measured with an accuracy of 0.01 ns.
Search LabVIEW like a graph! 
Interview Asking Salary Needs
I was employed at a custom integrator company that made test equipment and software. We got two programs for a local company to work on the software only. They bought the hardware with our suggestions, they made the test equipment, and then I wrote the software. I then went onsite to deploy it and make sure it was working properly with their devices to test. These two programs had me as the lead developer and designing the architecture while having a couple developers work on the drivers but I was the point of contact and knew every part of the system. These two programs went really well with very little software issues and the customer was satisfied with the systems they got.
A little while later they contacted me asking if I’d be interested in a full time job with them. After some back and forth I went in for a job interview. Things went really well and at the end of the interview, the general manager of this company comes in and asks about the pay and salary I would need to come on. I told him that I was contracted through another company for two of their programs already. I stated that these two programs cost $50K each, and combined took a total of 6 months, so if it were working on it for a year that would have cost them $200K. I then stated that during the onsite portion of their contract they were paying about $140/hour plus expenses to have me working there. At 40 hours a week and 52 weeks that is almost $300K/year. I then told the general manager that to save them money I would accept half of that. We both chuckled and he knew I wasn’t completely serious.
Just for reference at that time I was getting paid something between $50K to $60K per year. I’ve heard multiple times that in job interviews the people that start out asking for lots of money in negotiations often end up with getting more, even if the dollar amount they are asking for is ridiculous at first. In the end I did get the job, not for $150K but with a large bump from what I was at, and ended up working with lots of wonderful people...of course there was some unpleasantness...not sure what the statute of limitations is on some of these stories...
Sure but tomorrow never comes
I received an email with a bunch of people CC’d on it talking about some very important and critical deployment date for a change. Leading up to the change the email's subject was changed to “Big Change Coming Tomorrow!!!”. Of course in the email people were confused and someone had to correct them that the change wasn’t happening for a couple of weeks. But people kept using the same email chain hitting reply all to give updates. So for weeks we were all replying to the subject of the email stating the change would happen tomorrow.
Hotel Open Bar
I was traveling for work, to a city other coworkers had gone to in the past. So I asked them for advice on where to stay. One guy suggested a hotel, and in passing mentioned they had free drinks if you got there early enough. So I booked it and when I arrived asked about the bar situation. They said there was an open bar until 7 in the lobby. So I dropped off my stuff and went down. There was a decent crowd of 10 people or so all huddled around a single hotel worker with a cart full of drinks, and drink making stuff.
I wasn’t sure what to expect but it was pretty well stocked mini bar with various liquors and chasers. So I asked for a vodka and orange juice. What I got was a vodka and pineapple juice, which was fine, and being free I had no room to complain. So I drank it, then went for a rum and coke, but I got a whiskey and coke. I drank it quickly and went back for a vodka and cranberry. I’m still not sure what drink I actually got. After that I asked if there was a limit to the number of free drinks, and the worker just said “As many as you can drink.” They sorta said it like it was a challenge, which I thought was a bit odd. I realized all the people in the lobby were doing their pre-game, drinking before they went out for the night. Every day after work I’d hurry back to the hotel just to get a handful of free drinks, but rarely did I get the drink I ordered.
@Hooovahh wrote:
Every day after work I’d hurry back to the hotel just to get a handful of free drinks, but rarely did I get the drink I ordered.
A mysterious case of Hanlon's razor: incapable or some evil plot?
