Reply to: Here's a puzzle for you

[suityou01]

I called you up on this one and you called me a berk and told me to squint.

You may be good at maffs but you can't describe a requirement succinctly to save yer life HTH

I was also saying to MS that to me it seems obvious. I apologise again tractor.

[tractor]

OK. Thank you. Again this is where to me it seems obvious. Not being a tit, just saying. If the paper is scanned, and automarked, and the marks loaded into the database against the candidate record, then to me it's obvious the form is marked in such a way that the computer can recognise and hence update the appropriate record.

As for won't vs don't, seems a tad picky. You are right of course in the letter of the law, but you are the first person to mention this several hours after the "answer" was delivered so if it was that big a deal I would have expected it to come out sooner.

I called you up on this one and you called me a berk and told me to squint.

You may be good at maffs but you can't describe a requirement succinctly to save yer life HTH

[EternalOptimist]

ClientB (who are far from thick, but seem to have the odd 'block') keep wanting to store which database the app should connect to first in the database...

yep
i got this as well.

my solution was to incorporate a local connections table. I was overruled by the infrastructure bozo who thinks it is illegal to have one clients connection string in another clients db

[suityou01]

ClientB (who are far from thick, but seem to have the odd 'block') keep wanting to store which database the app should connect to first in the database...

That's really nice.

[RetSet]

The purpose of the internet.

1) Porn.

2) Cats.

3) Argue with strangers.

No cats in this thread.

Can we switch to porn, please?

[mudskipper]

... and some sympathetic anecdotes about similar work related issues where the Client is slow on the uptake.

ClientB (who are far from thick, but seem to have the odd 'block') keep wanting to store which database the app should connect to first in the database...

[EternalOptimist]

I wasn't. Honest. I was trying to prove how thick folks are. All I wanted as a few and some sympathetic anecdotes about similar work related issues where the Client is slow on the uptake.

just before he snuffed it, my dear old dad said to me 'son, if you ever say to someone, its obvious isnt it?, then you are being a thicko, not them'

he didnt actually say that, but its obvious isnt it ?

[mudskipper]

I wasn't. Honest. I was trying to prove how thick folks are. All I wanted as a few and some sympathetic anecdotes about similar work related issues where the Client is slow on the uptake.

Ah yes, but if you come over all smug and superior, you can expect people to rip the tulip out of any holes in your logic.

[suityou01]

CUK is a dangerous place to try and prove how clever you are.

I wasn't. Honest. I was trying to prove how thick folks are. All I wanted as a few and some sympathetic anecdotes about similar work related issues where the Client is slow on the uptake.

[doodab]

Stupid bloody thread, wish I'd never started it

CUK is a dangerous place to try and prove how clever you are.

[eek]

Yes. You are right. Again I concede this point. I am sorry. Stupid bloody thread, wish I'd never started

FTFY HTH but you know we'll pick on any flaw or weakness mercilessly forever more...

[suityou01]

Your question was:

"Name one piece of information given from puzzle 2 that was not mentioned right at the start, which was a vital piece of information that prevented the solution being found?"

Yes. You are right. Again I concede this point. I am sorry. Stupid bloody thread, wish I'd never started it

[suityou01]

Yes, but there are various ways of marking the forms. It would, for example, probably be cheaper to print identical papers and have candidates fill in their candidate number or name, or attach a sticker or similar identifying mark. If this were the case then scanning the papers of absentees would not provide information about which specific candidates were absent, and your solution wouldn't work. Hence the information you didn't originally supply about each paper having a unique barcode suddenly becomes very significant.

It does. You are right. I concede that point. I am sorry.
I believe a question was asked to which I replied "barcode" rather unfairly in 40 point font. So regardless of my rudeness the fact later became known so it was therefore in people's grasp to solve the problem still.

[mudskipper]

You could tattoo barcodes onto the kids and scan them on the way into the exam hall.

In fact, many schools now have fingerprint scanner thingies, so you could tap into that system.

[mudskipper]

I added no constraint that said no one was allowed to ask questions.

Your question was:

"Name one piece of information given from puzzle 2 that was not mentioned right at the start, which was a vital piece of information that prevented the solution being found?"