Post by greymausPost by Vir CampestrisRight, or at least it should give a warning âthe message
youâre replying to is more than xxx days old, do you want to
continue.â Google should hire us old-timers to fix their code.
I had a perfectly good job. I stopped when I decided I had enough
money to do the things I wanted, but might not have enough time.
I imagine that's true of a lot of people.
Andy
A bit of a story from many, many years ago.
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Post by greymaus"How can you justify charging so much for turning a screw?."#
"I knew which screw to turn."
I've heard a version of the story attributed to Charles Proteus
Steinmetz. He had gone his own way, perhaps nudged a bit in that
direction by General Electric. But nobody understood his material* as
he did, so he got called back in. They gave him the specs and plans
for the device they were having trouble with. He returned home and
contemplated the problem for a couple of days, came back, grabbed a
piece of chalk, marked the device, dropped a bill for ${large number}
on the table and left.
A few days later, comes a missive from GE - they want an /itemized/
bill. (Bean counters are always with us.) So Steinmetz sent the bill:
- $100 placing chalk mark on device
- ${large number} - $100 knowing where to put the chalk mark
GE, at least according to this story, paid.
* High voltage electricity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz
Ah, not quite. Footnote 13 of that article refers to this article:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022
Apparently, the victim was Henry Ford, not GE.
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