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Do the thing, quarantine the results, if the final even happens, accept the results, if not, leave in quarantine indefinitely (or until the several days have definitively passed).
That would be the obvious solution, except that the things happen in one system and cause events in another system. This other system then sends messages to local government for regulatory purposes and has to happen at the correct date. There are hefty financial penalties for not doing so. Essentially what the user is trying to do with the request is cover themselves if they forget to do something later on, but they didn't think through the ramifications properly.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
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I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
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I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
At my first programming job, I worked on source code where many lines had comments which simply said "TEMPORAL". English was not the primary language of the original programmer. Now I am thinking I should go dig up that code. Maybe I was just too green to understand and it is exactly the code you need!
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Well that's the first question. Should I create a process to check the future, or one to undo the past. I think it'll have to be the future, because the other I don't know at which point I can guarantee the third thing isn't going to happen, so I don't know at which point to undo the past.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
Going from experience, validation is always easier than reversal. So I'd suggest validating step 3 before performing step 1. Alternatively, follow the BA who came up with this idea [it's always a BA] and give him a huge bitch slap back into the real world.
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Isn't this what parallel processing was invented for? When the first event happens, you now must start two paths of execution. At some point in the future, you abort one of these paths depending upon whether event two has occurred. Sounds pretty simple to me and I'm sure there's already a pattern that's been developed to handle this. :)
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I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
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I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
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Well that's the first question. Should I create a process to check the future, or one to undo the past. I think it'll have to be the future, because the other I don't know at which point I can guarantee the third thing isn't going to happen, so I don't know at which point to undo the past.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
Checking is much easier than undoing. If you are not careful you could end up shooting your own grandad (or screwing your own grandma if you use the Robert Heinlein paradigm) - it is very difficult to unshoot or unscrew something (unless it's a lightbulb)
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I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
I hope you have a good supply of bacon and liquid nitrogen on hand, and stay as far away from
CListCtrlas you possibly can.".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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Sweet, I can finally use that time travel module I wrote next year.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
ryanb31 wrote:
Sweet, I can finally use that time travel module I wrote willan on-write next year.
FTFY! You might want to brush up on The Grammar of Time Travel[^]. Cheers! :laugh:
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Going from experience, validation is always easier than reversal. So I'd suggest validating step 3 before performing step 1. Alternatively, follow the BA who came up with this idea [it's always a BA] and give him a huge bitch slap back into the real world.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
follow the BA who came up with this idea ... and give him a huge bitch slap back into the real world.
This made me laugh quite hard. :laugh: :laugh:
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Checking is much easier than undoing. If you are not careful you could end up shooting your own grandad (or screwing your own grandma if you use the Robert Heinlein paradigm) - it is very difficult to unshoot or unscrew something (unless it's a lightbulb)
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Chris Quinn wrote:
it is very difficult to unshoot or unscrew something (unless it's a lightbulb)
How do you unshoot a lightbulb...? :-\
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Seems like life of married men. Third thing is related to cuddling. Second might just never happen and in several days they get first and third. If you know what I mean.
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Isn't it more like, "you need to do A and B to get C. I'll tell you what A is, but not B. Moreover, once you figure out B, I'll change it."
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I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
ma brane jus splode.
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I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
Wow! Did you tell the guy requesting this that you'll have to buy a real working Crystal Ball and a Flux Capacitor? Oh, and the computer will nee to be doing 88MPH too!
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Isn't it more like, "you need to do A and B to get C. I'll tell you what A is, but not B. Moreover, once you figure out B, I'll change it."
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I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
Let me guess, this if for the EPA You must run a calibration every 23 hours unless, after 36 hours you have not run but if you do run on the 30th hour you must have done a calibration after the 28th hour but no sooner.
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I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
My brain just encountered a
StackOverflowExceptionwhile trying to comprehend that one. Was the one who came up with that stricken with hypocaffenia?I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking
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I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]
I always wondered how they implemented a double click.
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Going from experience, validation is always easier than reversal. So I'd suggest validating step 3 before performing step 1. Alternatively, follow the BA who came up with this idea [it's always a BA] and give him a huge bitch slap back into the real world.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
If the BA is like the one's I've worked with, you're going to have to budget a workmen's comp claim for the slap.
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