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Previously on "Getting in Early: A Secret Newtonian Law?"

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  • Old Greg
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    Get a proper job and make your tech monkeys worry about this sort of thing.

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

    Threaded.

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  • OrangeHopper
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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?

    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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