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kyburgdame-of-dames:
copperbadge:
snarry4ever:
friedcherryblossomprincess:
“A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” - Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
I was reminded of this by a news story about a museum exhibition about Sir Terry Pratchett.
Part of my job is to design database reports. After he died, I spent a Sunday afternoon embedding GNU Terry Pratchett in the code that renders all the reports I’ve designed at work. So every time one of my reports runs it sends his name over the network.
One set of reports I designed comprises 6 reports to generate dashboards for our support teams that show different things about ticket handling. Each of them updates once per minute.
So:
6 reports x 60 updates per hour x 24 hours per day x 365 days per year = 3,153,600 refreshes per year.
But we have 4 teams using them so that’s really 3,153,600 x4 teams = 12,614,400 times per year.
I’ve also designed a couple of hundred other reports for different purposes. They don’t get run as often but I know the support team leaders run theirs every few minutes all day. I have my own reports I run for my own. Our other teams run reports I designed for scheduling, sales, marketing, service monitoring and all kinds of things.
Sir Terry is not truly dead. Not as long as we speak his name.
My reports have been speaking it as often as they can for 3 years now.
@copperbadge
It’s lovely! I hope forensic coders centuries from now look at our code and know exactly why we did it.
@kyburg I thought you’d get a kick out of this.
Oh, you know it. There are things the Tolkien folks do for the same reason.
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copperbadge:
snarry4ever:
friedcherryblossomprincess:
“A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” - Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
I was reminded of this by a news story about a museum exhibition about Sir Terry Pratchett.
Part of my job is to design database reports. After he died, I spent a Sunday afternoon embedding GNU Terry Pratchett in the code that renders all the reports I’ve designed at work. So every time one of my reports runs it sends his name over the network.
One set of reports I designed comprises 6 reports to generate dashboards for our support teams that show different things about ticket handling. Each of them updates once per minute.
So:
6 reports x 60 updates per hour x 24 hours per day x 365 days per year = 3,153,600 refreshes per year.
But we have 4 teams using them so that’s really 3,153,600 x4 teams = 12,614,400 times per year.
I’ve also designed a couple of hundred other reports for different purposes. They don’t get run as often but I know the support team leaders run theirs every few minutes all day. I have my own reports I run for my own. Our other teams run reports I designed for scheduling, sales, marketing, service monitoring and all kinds of things.
Sir Terry is not truly dead. Not as long as we speak his name.
My reports have been speaking it as often as they can for 3 years now.
@copperbadge
It’s lovely! I hope forensic coders centuries from now look at our code and know exactly why we did it.
@kyburg I thought you’d get a kick out of this.
Oh, you know it. There are things the Tolkien folks do for the same reason.
http://ift.tt/2mH6C81
from Tumblr http://ift.tt/2DsBEea
via IFTTT
