Coding for an insurance business is soooo boring
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WSDL, SOAP, XML, reports... Metaphorically, where as McCoy when he told Kirk he belongs in the Captain's chair of a starship exploring the galaxy, not sitting behind some desk pushing paper in a cubicle under florescent lights with no window in sight. What amazes me is that software that runs an insurance business can have bugs. I mean, it's all pushing numbers around, some conditional logic, and some math. :~ Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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den2k88 wrote:
They could fail even finding their own backside output port in the toilet.
I prefer to say "couldn't find his own ass with both hands and a map" myself.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Yes, that was the original sentence. I like more being indirectly vulgar when I can :D
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I feel your pain. I was on two contracts in Pennsylvania, one in Philly and the other in Allentown. Both were insurance companies. I hated every minute of it, not only because, you know, insurance, but also everything had to be written in VB6. X| Of course, this was back in the 90's.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others. Same thing when you are stupid.
Donathan.Hutchings wrote:
but also everything had to be written in VB6.
Happily, it's C#. Other positives, the people are really really nice and as a contractor, the pay is great. Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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There are a lot of simians instead of developers. They could fail even finding their own backside output port in the toilet.
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
:thumbsup: So true.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
ass
When did Wales join the USA? Was this one of the effects of Brexit that the BBC hasn't covered? :rolleyes: Google translate can't seem to find the proper Welsh word - does dinau work? Otherwise, stick to a proper English "arse". :)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Good catch. :laugh:
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WSDL, SOAP, XML, reports... Metaphorically, where as McCoy when he told Kirk he belongs in the Captain's chair of a starship exploring the galaxy, not sitting behind some desk pushing paper in a cubicle under florescent lights with no window in sight. What amazes me is that software that runs an insurance business can have bugs. I mean, it's all pushing numbers around, some conditional logic, and some math. :~ Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
Marc Clifton wrote:
where as McCoy when he told Kirk he belongs in the Captain's chair
Why did I think of an X-Men/Star Trek crossover? :D
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote:
but also everything had to be written in VB6.
Happily, it's C#. Other positives, the people are really really nice and as a contractor, the pay is great. Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
Marc Clifton wrote:
the people are really really nice and as a contractor, the pay is great
Hold your nose, take the money and run! :-D
Software Zen:
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WSDL, SOAP, XML, reports... Metaphorically, where as McCoy when he told Kirk he belongs in the Captain's chair of a starship exploring the galaxy, not sitting behind some desk pushing paper in a cubicle under florescent lights with no window in sight. What amazes me is that software that runs an insurance business can have bugs. I mean, it's all pushing numbers around, some conditional logic, and some math. :~ Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
What's exciting is making a change that works for you but in another, completely unexpected context causes 1000's of checks to be printed the following day without payee names. :-O It was so tempting to take one of those 100k checks for myself...
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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WSDL, SOAP, XML, reports... Metaphorically, where as McCoy when he told Kirk he belongs in the Captain's chair of a starship exploring the galaxy, not sitting behind some desk pushing paper in a cubicle under florescent lights with no window in sight. What amazes me is that software that runs an insurance business can have bugs. I mean, it's all pushing numbers around, some conditional logic, and some math. :~ Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
You should get into porn. Problem solved.
Jeremy Falcon
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OriginalGriff wrote:
ass
When did Wales join the USA? Was this one of the effects of Brexit that the BBC hasn't covered? :rolleyes: Google translate can't seem to find the proper Welsh word - does dinau work? Otherwise, stick to a proper English "arse". :)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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WSDL, SOAP, XML, reports... Metaphorically, where as McCoy when he told Kirk he belongs in the Captain's chair of a starship exploring the galaxy, not sitting behind some desk pushing paper in a cubicle under florescent lights with no window in sight. What amazes me is that software that runs an insurance business can have bugs. I mean, it's all pushing numbers around, some conditional logic, and some math. :~ Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
I work the other side of the insurance game; I write software that helps people manage billables and file insurance claims. So frankly, I don't know how insurance software could ever have bugs, since from my experience, it's all basically this:
if (Claim.ChargeAmount > 0)
{
Claim.Status = ClaimStatus.Denied;
}
else
{
Claim.PaidAmount = 0;
};P
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You should get into porn. Problem solved.
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
You should get into porn.
Quite so.[^] All that got installed at a club in Tijuana. Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
You should get into porn.
Quite so.[^] All that got installed at a club in Tijuana. Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
You should get into porn.
Quite so.[^] All that got installed at a club in Tijuana. Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
Not sure if I should click that link while being at work, but the URL slug is quite fitting. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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WSDL, SOAP, XML, reports... Metaphorically, where as McCoy when he told Kirk he belongs in the Captain's chair of a starship exploring the galaxy, not sitting behind some desk pushing paper in a cubicle under florescent lights with no window in sight. What amazes me is that software that runs an insurance business can have bugs. I mean, it's all pushing numbers around, some conditional logic, and some math. :~ Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
Marc Clifton wrote:
and some math
So you can just forget most developers being able to do it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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WSDL, SOAP, XML, reports... Metaphorically, where as McCoy when he told Kirk he belongs in the Captain's chair of a starship exploring the galaxy, not sitting behind some desk pushing paper in a cubicle under florescent lights with no window in sight. What amazes me is that software that runs an insurance business can have bugs. I mean, it's all pushing numbers around, some conditional logic, and some math. :~ Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
Back in the very late 90's I put in a stint at an insurance company, I was astonished just how much of their business was dependent on spreadsheets. I had to quit as I refused to write any more excel macros. Five years later the company went tits up as they had no control of their products and systems, it was a huge scandal in Oz.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Not sure if I should click that link while being at work, but the URL slug is quite fitting. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
but the URL slug is quite fitting.
:laugh: It's quite WS. One of the more recent posts, ironically about Agile, may raise some eyebrows though! Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I work the other side of the insurance game; I write software that helps people manage billables and file insurance claims. So frankly, I don't know how insurance software could ever have bugs, since from my experience, it's all basically this:
if (Claim.ChargeAmount > 0)
{
Claim.Status = ClaimStatus.Denied;
}
else
{
Claim.PaidAmount = 0;
};P
Oh, poop, now you've reminded me of having to write code to generate bills in EDI format... :sigh: back to therapy...
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WSDL, SOAP, XML, reports... Metaphorically, where as McCoy when he told Kirk he belongs in the Captain's chair of a starship exploring the galaxy, not sitting behind some desk pushing paper in a cubicle under florescent lights with no window in sight. What amazes me is that software that runs an insurance business can have bugs. I mean, it's all pushing numbers around, some conditional logic, and some math. :~ Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
I'm probably swimming against the wave here, but I don't quite get the point of this post. ALL software has bugs. Why should insurance business be any different? In a way, everything comes down to ones and zeroes, so why bugs should exist at all, right? If you find the job soooo boring, I think it's time for you to find another job that you deem interesting, then. That would at least be better than publicly self-aggrandizing and condescending those who are employing you. :)
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I'm probably swimming against the wave here, but I don't quite get the point of this post. ALL software has bugs. Why should insurance business be any different? In a way, everything comes down to ones and zeroes, so why bugs should exist at all, right? If you find the job soooo boring, I think it's time for you to find another job that you deem interesting, then. That would at least be better than publicly self-aggrandizing and condescending those who are employing you. :)
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
If you find the job soooo boring, I think it's time for you to find another job that you deem interesting, then.
He started about a week ago.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
