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Commercial people will tell anything to sell their stuff, and this time it wasn't different. Our salesman was trying to sell our payment application for a store chain that used some hardware with only 100KiB of available memory (this was about 10 years ago).
But our MS-DOS based software required 400KiB, so he promised we would just split the program into 4 executable files. As it was such an easy task he promised it in a week and closed the contract, with a penalty if it isn't delivered in a week, because why not, it's a big sale.
Our developer managed to make it work, spliting the executable as he said, but in 13 executables. Much of the code is shared by different operations so you can't just split that.
When the code reached a split, it would save everything to continue on the next part. I still find some hacks on the code caused by this thing.
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@sockpuppet7 "Congratulations, Salesdude. Your commission check has been split up into pennies and spread throughout the country."
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@Lorne-Kates said in The split:
@sockpuppet7 "Congratulations, Salesdude. Your commission check has been split up into pennies and
spread throughout the countryfired at you from a high-velocity air rifle."FTFHIWDI
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The split:
@Lorne-Kates said in The split:
@sockpuppet7 "Congratulations, Salesdude. Your commission check has been split up into pennies and
spread throughout the countryfired at you from a high-velocity air rifle."FTFHIWDI
Should've used a blunderbuss.
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@sockpuppet7: We really need to create a retorsion system for salespersons that play such shenanigans. Forcing said person to wear an ugly "I promised things to a client without asking the developers" shirt for a week would be a good start for lesser offenses. For more serious cases, I'm sure we can find lots of interesting & unusual punishments.
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@Zerosquare said in The split:
Forcing said person to wear an ugly "I promised things to a client without asking the developers" shirt for a week would be a good start for lesser offenses.
As long as said shirt was dragged through (multiple) patches of Poison Ivy and Poison Oak first...
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@Zerosquare How about an official reprimand from the manager for violating policy?
Nah, too bizarre.
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@anonymous234 said in The split:
@Zerosquare How about an official reprimand from the manager for violating policy?
And what are you dreaming of at night?
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@anonymous234 said in The split:
@Zerosquare How about an official reprimand from the manager for violating policy?
And what are you dreaming of at night?
I think that's: What are you smoking - and can I have some?
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@sockpuppet7 said in The split:
used some hardware with only 100KiB of available memory (this was about 10 years ago)
A computer with just 100kiB available for a critical program in 2008 (or so)? That's a brutally small target, even for that time. (OK, I'm aiming some of my software at systems with even less… per CPU core, but I write stuff for very weird systems.)
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@dkf those things would still be here if it were possible to squeeze all the requirements into them. down here electronics are expensive and developers are cheap
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@sockpuppet7 said in The split:
used some hardware with only 100KiB of available memory (this was about 10 years ago)
A computer with just 100kiB available for a critical program in 2008 (or so)?
It took me way too long to realize you didn't miss the "this was about 10 years ago" bit. :(
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@CreatedToDislikeThis we still support stuff that makes raspberries look powerful in 2018
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@sockpuppet7 said in The split:
@CreatedToDislikeThis we still support stuff that makes raspberries look powerful in 2018
But apples are chick!
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