I programmed in COBOL (yes I am old): - take blank giant roll of blue Paper stripe - cut EVERY 8-bit line into it by hand punch machine via a stencil - Load finished paper roll into giant machine that actually had a RAM and was a boiling hot bastard - find the mistake by going through the whole thing again - cut out mistake with scissors, literally add red 'patch' with glue - load roll into giant machine again to have a nice workday sauna - find new Mistake on now Frankensteins code band - Guess what: Saunaday (hoorray!) - in case code was working at some point, copy code on celluloid strip again by hand (more durable) - repeat next week (we were working on Eigenvalue problems) Still the same: Scratching your head why it suddenly worked... Have a nice day, folks! :)
#29 This actually happens. I applied for a *very* junior sysdev gig way back when, got an interview yada yada yada. Three(!) weeks later I got an email telling me I was shortlisted for a second interview and a personality test, which would be followed by a "post-personality assessment interview" (lolwut?) a week later. When I politely declined because I had already gotten a job the HR dude replied 3 days later, calling me me unprofessional and accused me of wasting their time.
I programmed in COBOL (yes I am old): - take blank giant roll of blue Paper stripe - cut EVERY 8-bit line into it by hand punch machine via a stencil - Load finished paper roll into giant machine that actually had a RAM and was a boiling hot bastard - find the mistake by going through the whole thing again - cut out mistake with scissors, literally add red 'patch' with glue - load roll into giant machine again to have a nice workday sauna - find new Mistake on now Frankensteins code band - Guess what: Saunaday (hoorray!) - in case code was working at some point, copy code on celluloid strip again by hand (more durable) - repeat next week (we were working on Eigenvalue problems) Still the same: Scratching your head why it suddenly worked... Have a nice day, folks! :)
#29 This actually happens. I applied for a *very* junior sysdev gig way back when, got an interview yada yada yada. Three(!) weeks later I got an email telling me I was shortlisted for a second interview and a personality test, which would be followed by a "post-personality assessment interview" (lolwut?) a week later. When I politely declined because I had already gotten a job the HR dude replied 3 days later, calling me me unprofessional and accused me of wasting their time.
Pihole for the win!
- take blank giant roll of blue Paper stripe
- cut EVERY 8-bit line into it by hand punch machine via a stencil
- Load finished paper roll into giant machine that actually had a RAM and was a boiling hot bastard
- find the mistake by going through the whole thing again
- cut out mistake with scissors, literally add red 'patch' with glue
- load roll into giant machine again to have a nice workday sauna
- find new Mistake on now Frankensteins code band
- Guess what: Saunaday (hoorray!)
- in case code was working at some point, copy code on celluloid strip again by hand (more durable)
- repeat next week (we were working on Eigenvalue problems)
Still the same: Scratching your head why it suddenly worked...
Have a nice day, folks! :)
This actually happens.
I applied for a *very* junior sysdev gig way back when, got an interview yada yada yada.
Three(!) weeks later I got an email telling me I was shortlisted for a second interview and a personality test, which would be followed by a "post-personality assessment interview" (lolwut?) a week later. When I politely declined because I had already gotten a job the HR dude replied 3 days later, calling me me unprofessional and accused me of wasting their time.