Getting in Early: A Secret Newtonian Law?

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Old Greg replied

21 September 2007, 08:55
Get a proper job and make your tech monkeys worry about this sort of thing.
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DBA_bloke replied

21 September 2007, 08:53
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

If you'd written it in assembler, the job would've finished before you even started it. Certainly would on my Cray anyway.

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On your Cray! Titter!
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Schrodinger's Cat replied

21 September 2007, 08:51
Originally posted by OrangeHopper View Post

More a quantum thing. If you hadn't been there to observe it, would it have finished earlier? Did you kick it into the longest-time-possible state?

Now that would be telling... stroke my chin and I will reveal all.
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Churchill replied

21 September 2007, 08:40
If you'd written it in assembler, the job would've finished before you even started it. Certainly would on my Cray anyway.

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OrangeHopper replied

21 September 2007, 08:08
More a quantum thing. If you hadn't been there to observe it, would it have finished earlier? Did you kick it into the longest-time-possible state?
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DBA_bloke replied

21 September 2007, 07:42
Originally posted by Troll View Post

It's done on purpose ... a bit like a gang of workmen will only work hard when the foreman is around.
Be assured that while you are not there the overnight processes are wasting time gossiping about you or talking about footy

HTH

I thought as much! Bastards!
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Troll replied

21 September 2007, 07:41
It's done on purpose ... a bit like a gang of workmen will only work hard when the foreman is around.
Be assured that while you are not there the overnight processes are wasting time gossiping about you or talking about footy

HTH
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Swiss Tony replied

21 September 2007, 07:38
If you want a job done properly, do it yourself!
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DBA_bloke started a topic Getting in Early: A Secret Newtonian Law?

21 September 2007, 07:37
Getting in Early: A Secret Newtonian Law?

Why is it that whenever I get in early to attend to an overnight job that should have finished before I got in, it's still fecking plodding along, with yonks left to go?
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