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You should get a camera and write an OCR scanner that automatically scans the receipts as they are printed, then pushes it into a DB so you can view all your is
by alttab 4y ago
You should get a camera and write an OCR scanner that automatically scans the receipts as they are printed, then pushes it into a DB so you can view all your issues via a simple web application, replete with tracking, reminders, and then an e-mail integration that e-mails the opener of the issue when you put a comment on the receipt that's printed and rescanned.
- iamjackg 4y agoThis reminds me of a comment I read a long time ago about somebody's experience working for a company that had a branch in Japan. They would demand that some spreadsheets be sent as a fax, and then some employee would be tasked with re-typing all that information back into a spreadsheet later on.
- SllX 4y agoSomeone once told me this is how they share source code between departments at some software shops in Japan. I still refuse to believe this is true.
- mushyhammer 4y agoI bet code reviews with markers are fun though.
- potatochup 4y agoI've done code reviews on paper, although mostly when I want to understand something, not for review purposes.
- rovr138 4y agoI've printed long, MESSY, code, huge functions, to review and cleanup. I loved working with engineers and using their plotter for that. Had a ton of space to actually write things out and draw connections.
- someweirdperson 4y agoI used to carry a red pen at all times for that purpose. Very useful when people had some hardcopy. That use-case died with the invention of virus-defined wfh.
- creakingstairs 4y agoWell it’s not source code but my wife’s work print whatever they’ve worked on and it goes around the team while they make change requests one at a time using pen. Once they are happy they stamp it. So I could definitely see people printing source code…
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- duxup 4y agoI once had a cube next to mine. It was the “Japan Cube”, all it had was a printer and a fax machine. It was only ever used for faxes to and from Japan. Eventually it was decorated with Japanese art and etc.
- iancmceachern 4y agoI once worked at a job where one of the owners of the company, when asked to send a pdf copy of a document, would print out the document on the shared office copier/printer, then scan it back in using the same copier/printer and have it email him the pdf. Every single time he ever made a pdf of any file, even hundreds of pages, he would do this way.
- geoffeg 4y agoAt a job many, many years ago I asked a developer on a different team (across town) to email me an XML file I needed for a feature I was working on. After a few hours of not getting anything I checked with him and he said the file was too large and the email server wasn't allowing him to send it to me. It was a few hundred kilobytes, it shouldn't have been a problem but I didn't care too much, I just wanted the file so I asked him to zip it up to reduce the size. A few minutes later he said the email server was still rejecting it, even as a zip file. Getting frustrated, I grabbed my laptop and drove to the other office. He showed me the XML file... which was a Word document with screenshots of the XML document opened in an editor. Exasperated, I asked him why he couldn't just send me the raw XML file instead of putting screenshots in a Word document. Turns out the document was on another system he had to remote into (with Citrix, I think? I don't remember what was used back then) and he wasn't "allowed" to copy files off that machine.
- tzs 4y agoOn the plus side he didn't have to worry about the documents he send inadvertently containing damaging, incriminating, or embarrassing metadata.
- blahgeek 4y agoThere's still plenty of places that specifically require a scanned copy of documents, instead of the original digital one. The printing and scanning process essentially makes it blurry and that's exactly what they want. I wonder if there's any tool that can achieve the same effect.
- someweirdperson 4y ago
- tristor 4y agoThis is rather clever satire.
- nixpulvis 4y agoThis is rather clever commentary.
- eckza 4y agoWeb 2.0 -> Web 1.0 -> Web 2.0 adapter.
- bmn__ 4y agohttps://thedailywtf.com/articles/Web_0_0x2e_1 https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Web_0_0x2e_1
- gilleain 4y agoYes the wooden table was the first thing that came to mind. Oddly enough I have recently been drawing geometric designs, and then got the idea to draw them with a drawing ro bot. The current process is : 1. Draw design with ruler and compass 2. Photograph paper 3. Edge-detect image in Inkscape 4. Draw over the edge detected lines and save to SVG 5. Possibly convert to a graph, and run the Chinese postman algorithm over it 6. Convert graph to turtle commands and send to robot So not far off. Also step 2 often involves a wooden surface...
- Spooky23 4y agoThank you for posting this. I remember when i first saw the “I hate Oracle Club”, I laughed to the point my coworkers were worried about me. :)
- randomdata 4y agoA day in the life of a bookkeeper.
- recentdarkness 4y agoAll Hail to the air gapped database - At least no one will be breaking into that one that easily.
- merlincorey 4y agoLil' Bobby Tables submits an issue.
- gkop 4y agoI know this is a joke, but Jaron Lanier actually proposes machines communicate through human (?) or VR (?) interfaces. Something like that. I spent 15 minutes searching the web and my library but couldn't find it. I read two books of his, it must be in "Dawn of the New Everything" or "You Are Not a Gadget". I'm fuzzy on the idea, but found it interesting enough that I remember it.
- biryani_chicken 4y agoI once got a phone's speech-recognition system to recognize another's text-to-speech system, just to see how accurate they'd be. And I know one game that has a speech-recognition system to post in chat and then other players can use text-to-speech to read the chat aloud. Fun times.