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Data dumbness at work

2:08pm JST Tuesday 27 May 2008 (day 13943)

I've not searched for any jobs yet today; like I haven't even thought about it. Oh wait, I did a little bit: Dude sent me a link to rentacoder.com and I signed up as a coder on that site, but I haven't yet bid on any jobs.

Near the end of yesterday I was asked to figure out why a particular user's data seems wonky. On this page it says PAID, while on this page it says PENDING.

After a bit of research, the answer returned to my brain. In fact, this is already something I had noticed, but from the code / DB point of view. I was like, "wtf: the code is written such that it's a pain in the arse to set the user's items to PAID. They get stuck at PENDING...."

That was back in December, and I told my boss. He shrugged it off, perhaps because I said it would be difficult to update the data properly. (*)

I was busy with other stuff, and I blew it off because it's been that way since the beginning of time, at least from the perspective of the program, and I figured if no one has complained about it, the issue must not be visible to users.

It's visible to users.

I had never seen it before because I'm ineligible to be paid by our own website (or so I thought; the above mentioned user is an employee who sits quite near me).

(*) I don't remember the details, but I think when the PAID data is written, that code only has a sum of the data, and no access to the individual records that made that sum.

So now I'ma try to find where the code should be changed, discover just how hard it will be to correct, and see from there.

4:54pm JST

Hahahaah

The solution was to change the status from PENDING to REQUESTED.

meditation

11:42pm JST Tuesday 27 May 2008 (day 13943)

Great time at meditation tonight; I actually am super glad with how it worked out because I had been asked to do an interview via Skype at 6pm, but that's exactly when I had to leave for meditation... but I told them no: either earlier or omorrow, and we had the interview at 5pm, so I'm really thankful for that.

Anyway, I paired up with Kevin for the first eye0contact meditation, and he noticed when I finally released and he was like, "your heart just opened," and I thought, is that what that was? and I was able to maintain the feeling, so that was cool.

Paired with Romi after that and felt really open, which was also great, etc.

I called 中谷さん on the way out at 9pm, but good for him he had gone home for the evening. I let go of work and joined Kevin, Helma, Amy, and Denise at the local Indian restaurant for conversations that whizzed through two hours like nothiin'. Amazing meditation stories from Helma and Kevin; amazing travel stories from the other two.

(this is being typed while standing on the train with wireless keyboard in my hand and PC on the baggage rack.)