Reply to: Up your game!

[suityou01]

I knew you were a slow reader, I never expected you to admit it.

Phew, that WAS a long post eek!

[eek]

That's my evening's reading sorted then, thanks for the quick and concise answer.

I knew you were a slow reader, I never expected you to admit it.

[suityou01]

The triangles are a historical thing, where some councils in the past reshuffled land by dividing it in strips around a central point. Not all councils did that though.

You also have to remember that when land was divided up in NL, water rights and responsibilities for maintaining water defenses had to be divided up among the farmers too, which explains why there are ditches and dykes between the fields.

As for the tetris like strips; they're growing flowers in strips sowed weekly or daily and harvesting day by day or week by week to provide a continuous supply to the auctions. No point in having one big glut of flowers in one week as that would push the price down for that week and you'd earn fook all for the rest of the year, so sow strip by strip and harvest strip by strip. Apparently the biggest customers for Dutch flowers are the Italians and there's a constant stream of trucks going from Aalsmeer auction up and down to Italy.

That's my evening's reading sorted then, thanks for the quick and concise answer.

[Mich the Tester]

Field shaped. Fields aren't generally shaped like long thin triangles, with the apexes all on a central point, like a giant fecked up trivial pursuit counter.

Not are they tetris shaped, or shaped like the output from WinDirstat.

Fieldwrong example.



Edit : Although this example looks like the windows defragger

The triangles are a historical thing, where some councils in the past reshuffled land by dividing it in strips around a central point. Not all councils did that though.

You also have to remember that when land was divided up in NL, water rights and responsibilities for maintaining water defenses had to be divided up among the farmers too, which explains why there are ditches and dykes between the fields.

As for the tetris like strips; they're growing flowers in strips sowed weekly or daily and harvesting day by day or week by week to provide a continuous supply to the auctions. No point in having one big glut of flowers in one week as that would push the price down for that week and you'd earn fook all for the rest of the year, so sow strip by strip and harvest strip by strip. Apparently the biggest customers for Dutch flowers are the Italians and there's a constant stream of trucks going from Aalsmeer auction up and down to Italy.

[suityou01]

What shape did you expect?

Field shaped. Fields aren't generally shaped like long thin triangles, with the apexes all on a central point, like a giant fecked up trivial pursuit counter.

Not are they tetris shaped, or shaped like the output from WinDirstat.

Fieldwrong example.



Edit : Although this example looks like the windows defragger

[Mich the Tester]

Mitch, I noticed while flying over Amsterdam this morning the fields are an odd shape. Why is this?

Exibit a

What shape did you expect?

[suityou01]

Yep, keep us invoicing and we'll keep you invoicing.

Mitch, I noticed while flying over Amsterdam this morning the fields are an odd shape. Why is this?

Exibit a

[Mich the Tester]

Always the best approach. Give Testing no time to test so they don't test in detail. Put pressure on them to ensure it passes the tests and then blame them for not doing their job correctly when it goes wrong.

Yep, keep us invoicing and we'll keep you invoicing.

[suityou01]

Always the best approach. Give Testing no time to test so they don't test in detail. Put pressure on them to ensure it passes the tests and then blame them for not doing their job correctly when it goes wrong.

Far better approach than listen to the contractor you are paying handsomely for, that's been using this tool for 10 years.

NTIGAF. If they want me to fix it later, then that's more sheckles for Suity LTD.

[eek]

Better yet, I warned them it was heading somewhere tulipty, advised them how to avoid the tulip, and we then ignored my advice and plotted a course for tulipsville. Now they are panicking, but no so much that they will ask me to fix it, better wait until it fails testing then do it right at the last minute while up against the clock and then sling it back through testing "Gangnam style"

Always the best approach. Give Testing no time to test so they don't test in detail. Put pressure on them to ensure it passes the tests and then blame them for not doing their job correctly when it goes wrong.

[suityou01]

is it in the tulip and rapidly getting tulipper....

Better yet, I warned them it was heading somewhere tulipty, advised them how to avoid the tulip, and we then ignored my advice and plotted a course for tulipsville. Now they are panicking, but no so much that they will ask me to fix it, better wait until it fails testing then do it right at the last minute while up against the clock and then sling it back through testing "Gangnam style"

[eek]

Perhaps I shouldn't be so tight lipped about the state of my project. I was trying to "man up".

Any takers?

is it in the tulip and rapidly getting tulipper....

[suityou01]

Perhaps I shouldn't be so tight lipped about the state of my project. I was trying to "man up".

Any takers?

[Old Greg]

I tried but everyone seems to have gone away

Fed up with watching bloody repeats.

[sasguru]

I tried but everyone seems to have gone away