Anyone read Sports Illustrated? If so you'll recognize the title.
Anyway, background knowledge: I am managing a project in which we provide a data feed of fund prices to a newspaper. And this is mostly an email conversation.
E: So, A., the following 10 funds are missing 2/18 prices. Did the fund companies report?
Me: Yep, the 2/18 prices are in our database.
E: Oh, that's weird. They're not in the feed. Why don't you ask J. what's going on?
Me: J., how come the 2/18 prices are in the database and not in the feed.
J: O, how come the 2/18 prices are in the database and not in the feed?
X: O.'s out of the office so I'll have to ask A2. A2, how come the 2/18 prices are in the database and not in the feed?
(16 hour pause)
A2: Oh, because 2/18 was a U.S. holiday and they're U.S. funds.
Me: They're not U.S. funds
X: They're not U.S. funds.
Me: Wait, so you're saying the feed never happened because it was President's Day?
A2: Yes
Me: The database took the day off?
X: Essentially yes.
A2: I'll manually overwrite it because these are offshore funds. But for U.S. funds, the database can't work on U.S. holidays.
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See, this is what happens when you give computers too much information.
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Can the events of The Terminator movies be far behind? How funny (and ridiculous) that computers take vacation days, too!
Oh no, no - computers are too smart for that. It's the human nerds who program them that take holidays, don't be fooled.
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