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Matthew Dennis wrote: Don't try and do everything all at once. One bite at a time.
Yeah, Luckily I already learned this (the hard way). I hope to not repeat the same error.
#1 - Get knowledge about the current status quo, there is a lot of variance and I don't know every permutation
#2 - Trying to get a good feedback from management about which direction do they want to take
#3 - Organize things in "can die a natural death", "it needs a double tap", "we need this and we have to take it with us"
#4 - Once the system has been cleaned up from zombies and not needed stuff, start working out how to improve it
#5 - We'll see when we come there...
Matthew Dennis wrote: Involve the people that will be using your solutions.
That's something I have always tried when programming PLCs for others, nobody know the machine better that the one using it everyday.
Matthew Dennis wrote: If you can steer them to the 'correct' solution and make them think it was their idea, you will get buy-in a lot faster.
That's something I know, but that I don't master (yet)
Thanks for the tips, Matthew 
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Thanks Mike
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Preferably, other people's 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I was thinking the same 
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Microservices are the silver bullet that will make all your problems go away!
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Really? I thought it was garlic...
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I hope you like drawing pictures; I don't know how you pull it off otherwise.
(Mine were used to outsource me in the end ... no problem, got paid a bonus to stick around for the extra 6 months to educate the replacements).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: drawing pictures
With circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back?
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: I hope you like drawing pictures
I don't, but I suppose I will have to do a good bunch of schemata.
Gerry Schmitz wrote: Mine were used to outsource me in the end
That sucks
Gerry Schmitz wrote: got paid a bonus to stick around for the extra 6 months to educate the replacements
I hope the bonus hurt them
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Visio and hyperlinks are your friend.
(If they would have kept me on, I would have had to go to Toronto ... lose-lose).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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A little late, good luck. They won't know what hit them.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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theoldfool wrote: They won't know what hit them.
Are you recommending me to start wearing a mask? 
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only to scare the kiddies. 
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Hi All,
I am having fun (for me) working on developing a temperature monitor for some bits of kit we have that don't have one, Crack the knuckles, Design the PCB & write the code for the PIC in C on Notepad++... No Intellisense, no way of quickly checking syntax programming like it was meant to be! 
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Notepad++ is a luxury editor. You should use vi instead. 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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CPallini wrote: You should use vi ed instead.
FTFY
Mircea
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 I still use ne (Norton editor).
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Congrats, you are Yorkshireman #1 
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: CPallini wrote:You should use vi ed instead. FTFY
No, use Punched Cards (without an interpreter) or paper tape. I have an 8-pin paper tape holder complete with a pin for punching the holes individually that you can borrow. I got it after I used to make my own by cutting strips of paper and using different size knitting needles for the data holes and the sprocket holes.
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Well done! You are Yorkshireman #2. Still waiting for the next two
Mircea
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Obligatory xkcd: Real Programmers
Am I Yorkshiremen Nos. 3 and 4?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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jsc42 wrote: got it after I used to make my own by cutting strips of paper and using different size knitting needles
Probably the last time someone saw an update that actually really solved a problem.
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He's working in a Microsoft environment - he needs to use Edlin.
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