Posts by JimCr

Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'

Re: Excel for dodgy databases

On the nose actually. She got really hostile and I ended up quitting. I doubt it helped that I'd replied-all to the email chain detailing my find.

Re: Excel for dodgy databases

I'm a software QA analyst, and one time I was avoiding working too hard, so I decided to poke around the budget spreadsheet my manager had sent to the directors... I found a couple incorrect formulas that inflated the project cost by a quarter million. She laughed it away, but I was shocked this was one step away from being rubber stamped and signed off.

Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on personal PC

Re: $$$

My dad spent something like that on our first PC, a P133 from Gateway. Plus about £400 on the printer.

We went all the way to some showroom/store in Central London. Then I think UPS delivered the black and white boxes a few weeks later. I was about 14 at the time, so it was pretty exciting at the time... must have cost like 2 months wages.