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Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 1

Tom.Thomson (9/2/2010)

LutzM (8/31/2010)
[quote-0As requested: "Mädchen für alles" = a utility man or a gofer (not in the meaning of an unskilled worker but rather a person that's called whenever something needs to be done)
Strange enough, "Mädchen" is actually "girl", but is translated as "man"... but what would a "utility girl" do?
There is an "adult" translation available, too... But I guess that's not the one Jan was thinking of ;-)[/quote-0]
Ah, I was wondering why Jan had said he was a bicycle, but now I see that's not what he meant. 😀

Now where does the bicycle fit in :unsure:

Edit: typo. And that in such a short sentence :w00t:

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 2

FYI, we need approximately 25.4 posts per day to hit 20,000 by Nov 18th.

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Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 3

Alvin Ramard (9/2/2010)
FYI, we need approximately 25.4 posts per day to hit 20,000 by Nov 18th.

That should be easy. Here's my contribution for the day.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104768 More actions · Answer 4

Alvin Ramard (9/1/2010)[hrHow many of here have experience with "Object Data Base Connections (ODBC)"?

None, I imagine.

I used to see a lot of that sort of thing (it's not quite as bad as the requirement for "at least 5 years experience of developing software in Lazy ML" that I saw when Lazy ML was about 18 months old, but very nearly) and it made me disregard completely any job description containing it and add the recruitment agency that sent me it to my s**t list.

Tom

Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 5

Alvin Ramard (9/2/2010)
FYI, we need approximately 25.4 posts per day to hit 20,000 by Nov 18th.

Who's going to volunteer to make the .4 post?

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Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 6

Stefan Krzywicki (9/2/2010)
Alvin Ramard (9/2/2010)
FYI, we need approximately 25.4 posts per day to hit 20,000 by Nov 18th.
Who's going to volunteer to make the .4 post?

Would it be OK if one were to post something, then edit it and take 60 percent of the letters and whitespace out?

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 7

Make that 25.3/day

DECLARE @PostCount AS INT

SET @PostCount = 18052

SELECT CONVERT(NUMERIC(5,1), (20000.0 - @PostCount)/ DATEDIFF(DAY, GETDATE(), '2010-11-18'))

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104768 More actions · Answer 8

Jan Van der Eecken (9/2/2010)

Tom.Thomson (9/2/2010)
LutzM (8/31/2010)
[quote-0As requested: "Mädchen für alles" = a utility man or a gofer (not in the meaning of an unskilled worker but rather a person that's called whenever something needs to be done)
Strange enough, "Mädchen" is actually "girl", but is translated as "man"... but what would a "utility girl" do?
There is an "adult" translation available, too... But I guess that's not the one Jan was thinking of ;-)[/quote-0]
Ah, I was wondering why Jan had said he was a bicycle, but now I see that's not what he meant. 😀
Now where does the bicycle fit in :unsure:
Edit: typo. And that in such a short sentence :w00t:

In English (British variety, maybe not American) "office bicycle" is the "adult" translation Lutz mentioned (which was the only sense I previously knew of the German phrase - demonstrating that a little knowledge of a language may be a dangerous thing).

Tom

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 9

Alvin Ramard (9/2/2010)
Make that 25.3/day
DECLARE @PostCount AS INT
SET @PostCount = 18052
SELECT CONVERT(NUMERIC(5,1), (20000.0 - @PostCount)/ DATEDIFF(DAY, GETDATE(), '2010-11-18'))

How about we simplify the whole thing:

select ceiling( Alvins-calculations )

That means 26 posts a day. Now, no one needs to post a partial post.

(lol)

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 10

Here's the partial post.

Lynn, why don't you

😀

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738683 More actions · Answer 11

Noooooooo, not partial posts. There can be enough nonsense in this thread already.

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 12

Lynn Pettis

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September 2, 2010 at 8:48 am

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Alvin, how about you

ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 13

pin the tail to the donkey.

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 14

Lynn Pettis (9/2/2010)
Alvin, how about you

Rats, your partial post plus mine totalled up to a full post!! 😛

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281344 More actions · Answer 15

Stefan Krzywicki (9/2/2010)
Alvin Ramard (9/2/2010)
FYI, we need approximately 25.4 posts per day to hit 20,000 by Nov 18th.
Who's going to volunteer to make the .4 post?

I'll cover that 😉

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