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Horizon IT Scandal: Postmasters await justice today

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    Originally posted by vetran View Post

    good try but no cigar.

    Seen this question stump many vendors.
    A duplicate depends on the system.

    Lots of companies/organisations deal with duplicates and the ones I've contacted for admit they have issues with cleansing them.
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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      Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

      A duplicate depends on the system.

      Lots of companies/organisations deal with duplicates and the ones I've contacted for admit they have issues with cleansing them.
      it does indeed we had challenges 35 years ago. Its still one of the most difficult data problems. Frequently you get enough to cause problems but not enough to be sure it is a duplicate.
      Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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        Oh, look: there's another one a bit earlier:

        https://uk.news.yahoo.com/government...225824182.html

        "Capture".
        When the fun stops, STOP.

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          The scandal was the coverup, but incase anyone is interested in the poor development standards:

          Testimony from one of the software development manager (David McDonnell):

          Out of the 8 developers on the team, 2 were good/capable, 2 were mediocre/ok but 4 were 'not up to producing professional code'.
          No coding standards
          No peer code reviews
          No unit or integration tests
          No methodology
          No design specs/documents for lower level module designs, just a high level design.
          Dev team was the wild west. No structure no rules or discipline, 'wild west'
          Several thousand oustanding bugs.

          If interested you can easily watch the following video testimony at double speed as they talk quite slow.

          https://youtu.be/l2bi29H3DwQ?feature=shared&t=900
          Last edited by Fraidycat; 21 January 2024, 18:34.

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            This guy sounds nice… says bloke who was cleared was guilty, had to be compelled to appear the enquiry, and he was too busy walking his dog to put any proper effort into his statement

            https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-inquiry-hears

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