Can someone interpret this for me?

[gbaughma]

I just got this in an email.

I would like to see the data before it is submitted, but I don't think I need a copy of the accepted data unless there was a problem with the original.

Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg

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[SantaMufasa]

Greg,

The sentence reminds me of my Middle School shop teacher who, upon my completion of a woodwork project directed me:

Hey, Hunt, bring that here before I see it.

<grin>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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[Trevoke]

1. Give me this before it goes to production.
2. After it goes to production:
a. If what you show me is fine, np.
b. If what you show me wasn't fine, gimme a copy again.
(c? If there was something wrong in the data already in the system, please give me a copy of the data after it goes into production, although that's most likely the data you showed me already since... That's the data we put in production).

I think it's 1-2-a-b.


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[Turkbear]

Hi,
If that is as clear as the emailer can get, what are the chances that the data will be understood?


It reminds me of the 'Dictated but not read' notation that always confused me.






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[kjv1611]

I would like to see the data before it is submitted, but I don't think I need a copy of the accepted data unless there was a problem with the original.

Well, perhaps, they meant exceptions rather than accepted data, but just chose the wrong word/phrase?

I think my personal suggestion would be to ask them to rephrase the request. That'd be safer in the long term than guessing at the meaning and being wrong.

--

"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Hello,

not knowing about the details, from the programmers perspective, I could see what may be meant:

A program and thus it's programmer will only see committed data of a form. While every users seems to think Big Brother is watching everything you do and surely the programmer can see everything you do with his program or website, that's not the case.

To debug what goes wrong from submitting to receiving the submitted data, to be able to reproduce and understand what happens from the state of the form before submitting and after receiving data, the programmer needs perhaps just simply a screenshot of a website, before you submit your data, to try it himself with the same input...

Bye, Olaf.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

I think the email is perfectly clear. But apparently I'm in the minority.

Sure, it might not be a stunning example of the English language that will survive for generations, but it's an email.

My interpretation is along the lines of Trevoke's.

[tab]-> "I would like to see the data before it is submitted"
Please let me preview it before it's 'published'.

[tab]-> "but I don't think I need a copy of the accepted data"
Once I approve it to be published, I don't need another copy....

[tab]-> "unless there was a problem with the original"
....Unless I request that you make changes to the preview version. If there are, I want to be included in the distribution.

Like I said, it seems entirely clear to me. I don't see why there would be any questions about the meaning.

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[gbaughma]

anotherhiggins:

And I do believe that is the proper interpretation, after seeing some of the emails that lead up to that final one coming to me.

My brain just took a tilt to the left when I first read it.





Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg

http://parallel.tzo.com

 

[Trevoke]

it's just a tilt to the left.. and a little step to the ri-i-i-iiight."

The Gregory Horror Picture Show ?

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[KenCunningham]

...Let's do the word warp again!

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[gbaughma]

It's the pelvic thrust that really drives them insaaaaaaaaaane....



Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg

http://parallel.tzo.com

 

[hjgoldstein]

Don't come near me with those rubber gloves...

 

[Welshbird]

Nurse! The Screens!

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[2ffat]

Or is that, "Nurse! The screams!!!!"


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