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Then one day my friend lent me his 512KB ram upgrade and it was a different game :-)
Some people will now work the system and want to be made redundant, by doing the minimum possible.
Good people will leave for other opportunities.
This takes months/years to fix/heal. The fixing process is reset every time you do a new round of lay offs.
Appreciate the commitment and dedication to detail.
Will checkout OpenContext, thanks for the link
If they are busy interviewing, putting aside 2-3 hours (which is not much really) per interview, limits how many they are willing to do per week. As its still a candidate driven market.
Keep in mind, people have to find the spare time while doing their jobs and living life. If they have a family - good luck finding spare time :-)
The best win/win I've found is to pair with someone for about 30 minutes. You help each other, just like you do in real life.
..just so simple and elegant, particularly given the rise in hindsight and purely principle focussed cultures, that are developing in tech.
Excel is used extensively in many industries. Any file could be cut off in processing by any number of reasons, one off errors for e.g.
So the solution is to "fix" the process by using the existing broken process and smaller files....
His skills at hacking are only matched by his wit at writing.
If the author has spent time optimising to that level, overriding probably isn't necessary or warranted in that area.