| To: engineer who wrote (6967) | 8/8/2022 2:34:28 AM | | From: Zen Dollar Round | | | | >Cost to replace it was $250k in 1973, which was alot...
> I never had to run these jobs again.
Lol, yes, $250K in 1973 is roughly $1.6M in today's dollars, so that is a pricey error.
I'm always amazed that people who make such costly mistakes often keep their jobs, but I never made one nearly that expensive but I was never in a position to do so... at least not without doing it intentionally.
You didn't say whether you kept that job or were fired, but I'm guessing you kept it since I've read about many cases like this over the years.
Not criticizing you, everyone makes mistakes, and even CEOs are hired and fired all the time.
Kudos to you for posting it publicly, many would be to embarrassed to do so, even after 50 years. :-) |
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| To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (6968) | 8/8/2022 12:26:36 PM | | From: engineer | | | | the outcome was that CDC was deemed at fault for having a misdesigned memory unit and they had to go back and do alot of fixes on their nickel. All that happened to me was that they just asked what I did and when I showed them, they were mad at CDC.
Anyone could have put in a card saying to jump to itself, thus made the mainframe insecure to run the jobs that it ran.
No they did not fire me, they hired me and I stayed there for 10 more years. |
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| To: LoneClone who wrote (6965) | 8/10/2022 11:19:50 PM | | From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell | | | | Do you recall an Office component called InfoPath? It was basically a form designer where the data was stored separately from the form itself. In reading the Wikipedia article on it, I see the designers patented this approach. Kinda funny as I had pioneered that idea back when laser printers first came out. The further irony being guess who Microsoft contracted with to write the application they showcased when they debuted the product in NYC? Yep, me!
Infopath IMHO was dead on arrival. But, hey, they flew me to Redmond, gave me a nice tour, I got to buy whatever I wanted for basically nothing in their company store, and so forth. No meeting with Bill Gates, though.
- Jeff |
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| From: LoneClone | 8/22/2022 3:15:04 PM | | | | | | Of late, someone who runs a board I have frequented for years has started making OT political posts. When I asked him to make those posts elsewhere, I got banned from the board. Is there an appeal mechanism for situations like this?
LC |
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| To: Honey_Bee who wrote (6976) | 9/7/2022 2:32:53 PM | | From: kidl | | | | First what I was going to post to you prior to the IMHO idiotic post removal.
"Don’t worry about being banned by GZ. He has politized his TA forum and runs it in Chinese / Russian fashion.
Why would you even want to post on it?
He even banned one of the most prominent SI TA posters. Egomaniacs at work."
Second, Ron disputed you claim:
Then came the utterly misguided deletion of posts as these posts which did NOT breach TOU terms
PS: I should point out that I utterly disagree with the way you and many others use SI by turning it into a political forum. SI was designed to be a stock market forum. Now its just another inconsequential platform to promote personal political views. |
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