Contractor wisdom that you live by <one liners only>

[northernladuk]

A contract is like a Mercedes, it can end abruptly, as if it had hit a brick wall....

[northernladuk]

They've never watched the American crime stuff then. The SWAT and CTSFO's go down like flies at every bust....

[northernladuk]

FOG

[northernladuk]

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[northernladuk]

I've had a great idea...

It would be useful to get some of the more experienced people lurking around here to share their knowledge. ( I am not one by far )

<one liners> are easy to read. Humor is a plus as it makes it enjoyable to read and easier to assimilate.
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[northernladuk]

SJD writes a list of questions to ask your prospective accounts that would put themselves out of the running

I bet they don't disclose the charges for doing end of year or SA accounts early that they've dumped on their customers time after time.



and what happens...

[northernladuk]

A force of cloned Judges backed up by a Special Judicial Squad sending perps to the cubes is the only way to sort London out.

You heard it here first.


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[northernladuk]

Nailed it....

[northernladuk]

Inneresting...

[northernladuk]

Move to general please

[northernladuk]

They aren't your employer.

[northernladuk]

I noticed the numerals. No idea if what they meant or if they were wrong....

[northernladuk]

It was noticed when posted, don't worry....

[northernladuk]

Get a better accountant then. You pay for their services and you are on the hook for a lot of tax so you want the best from them. If it's blood from stone then get a new one.
If you want a smaller setup where you can speak to the actual accountant try Sarah Solo at Paper Rocket.

[northernladuk]

Yeah but that was back in the day when they were competing. I mean nowadays when our understanding of computing has moved on. Are there clever logic manipulations now that weren't understood back then or is any tinkering constrained by the architecture of the chip and fixed logic. You get me? For example,...

[northernladuk]

Seen this before and it rarely works well.

I'm sorry but what???? Why on earth did you do that? Don't with to be rude but anything else you are going to complain about after that statement is your own fault. Can't blame them if you can't even do what you are properly. Clue is in the title...

[northernladuk]

Love these reverse engineering articles. I lose it about a third of the way in but still read the rest in amazement of his skills.
Always strikes me if there is any way of completely re-engineering or recoding using the original hardware to make it much faster or more efficient or did they do...

[northernladuk]

Sadly not....

[northernladuk]

But did you read the conclusions.





So in other words a complete pile of steaming dung from which nothing can be learned....

[northernladuk]

What's that link supposed to prove?...