On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:34:27 +0000
Recliner wrote:
On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:52:28 GMT, d wrote:
Anyone could tie up a single threaded computer for all eternity just by
sticking it in an endless loop you dimwit. 20 mins, FFS ...
Oh dear. Running large mesh finite element programs is computationally
intensive, especially if it's iteratively simulating thermal creep.
But you probably only know about the other sort of creep.
Running a prime number generator is computationally intensive and a simple
one of those is about 3 lines of C. Whats your point exactly? That my program
took X minutes on computer Y so it must have been impressive? Err, no, sorry.
I hate to break the news to you, but writing Excel macros is only
"programming"
if you're a complete beginner. I expect you think writing HTML is programming
too hmm?
As I said, even basic programming like Excel macros, let alone the
hard-core stuff, bores me to tears.
I doubt you would know where to start if someone told you to go off and write
some hard-core stuff. But as you say , you got other people to do the hard
work while you just shuffled paperclips around.
I wasn't ever a programmer, as I keep pointing out. It might have been
your highest aspiration; it was never mine. I just wrote code as
You can't really aspire to something you're clearly no good at.
I was happy in the company, and BTW, I was promoted from being a
software sales exec to sales manager, managing the sales people and
techies who had to support the customers. I made a lot more in
commission as a techie sales exec than as a techie sales manager, and
far more than anyone doing an actual techie job.
Oh dear, its so sad that you genuinely think that making it to the position
of a sales rep is something to boast about. You'd sooner do a job whose most
famous exponent is David Brent instead of one represented by people such as
Alan Turing , Ada Lovelace, Steve Wozniak and so on. I rest my case.
Yes, I was pretty pleased to have one built for me, to my exact spec,
in my 30s. It was a lot better than the Audi, Alfa, etc that I'd
previously chosen. And in those days, there were no tax penalties.
So in other words it wasn't even your own car, it was a company car. But lets
not forget it had an 'i' on the end - 'i' for "important", right?
)
So do you tell your clients what you really think of them?
I have done in the past when I've no intention of ever going back there.
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Spud