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I finally understand why people don't understand me

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    I finally understand why people don't understand me

    The y2k bug thread set me thinking. At the time I was touring Europe for Xerox hunting down not a Y2K bug, but rather a mystery bug where the billing routine didn't work in France or Germany or Italy but worked in the UK and other European countries. I tracked the problem down to the CVDate function in VB3, not functioning correctly when the decimal point character was a comma in regional settings. Indeed I was probably the first person to find this problem globally. I also then tested for Y2K related issues and found and fixed a whole heap of them and released this globally within Xerox. The Y2K team had missed this, so I greatly embarrassed them.

    Years later I was working at the London metal exchange, I was only there for 7 weeks before I was bullied out by the developers. It all started when on my 2nd day the boss came in and all flustered as someone was able to place a trade before 8am which was illegal and potentially newsworthy. It was agreed it was a good task for the newbie to cut his teeth on, but I had to solve it fast. I was pointed to the VSS repo, and the 10k line stored procedure that was most likely the culprit. I set to work. 60 seconds later I had found and fixed.
    The developer that wrote the proc said something like "that was far too fast". Several other times I was confronted for making the team look bad.

    I was once described by a business analyst as "bordering on the savant", and a fellow contractor last year said I was "definitely somewhere on the spectrum".

    I have recently been watching series 1 of House MD when it hit me. I'm the onery Dr Gregory House of IT.

    Don't feel bad for the way you act towards me, it's perfectly natural.
    Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

    #2
    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
    The y2k bug thread set me thinking. At the time I was touring Europe for Xerox hunting down not a Y2K bug, but rather a mystery bug where the billing routine didn't work in France or Germany or Italy but worked in the UK and other European countries. I tracked the problem down to the CVDate function in VB3, not functioning correctly when the decimal point character was a comma in regional settings. Indeed I was probably the first person to find this problem globally. I also then tested for Y2K related issues and found and fixed a whole heap of them and released this globally within Xerox. The Y2K team had missed this, so I greatly embarrassed them.

    Years later I was working at the London metal exchange, I was only there for 7 weeks before I was bullied out by the developers. It all started when on my 2nd day the boss came in and all flustered as someone was able to place a trade before 8am which was illegal and potentially newsworthy. It was agreed it was a good task for the newbie to cut his teeth on, but I had to solve it fast. I was pointed to the VSS repo, and the 10k line stored procedure that was most likely the culprit. I set to work. 60 seconds later I had found and fixed.
    The developer that wrote the proc said something like "that was far too fast". Several other times I was confronted for making the team look bad.

    I was once described by a business analyst as "bordering on the savant", and a fellow contractor last year said I was "definitely somewhere on the spectrum".

    I have recently been watching series 1 of House MD when it hit me. I'm the onery Dr Gregory House of IT.

    Don't feel bad for the way you act towards me, it's perfectly natural.
    Knob

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      #3
      Originally posted by tarbera View Post
      Knob
      Whoosh!?
      I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. [Christopher Hitchens]

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        #4
        Originally posted by tarbera View Post
        Knob
        Barbara, that you?
        Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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          #5
          Do you really submit a 7 page CV?

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            #6
            "Bordering on the savant"?

            Well, you're definitely an idiot.
            What happens in General, stays in General.
            You know what they say about assumptions!

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              #7
              Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
              "Bordering on the savant"?

              Well, you're definitely an idiot.
              Hush, puppy.
              Last edited by suityou01; 31 December 2014, 14:50. Reason: Punctuation
              Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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                #8
                Originally posted by vwdan View Post
                Do you really submit a 7 page CV?
                No. It's 8.
                Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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                  #9
                  If the cap fits...

                  http://i.word.com/idictionary/savant

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by barrydidit View Post

                    I think what people have described to him are:-


                    What happens in General, stays in General.
                    You know what they say about assumptions!

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