Re: Friday Morning Fun

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Andrew Wilson wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:14:38PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > >
> > > >Oh well, how well would I have done in the interview? :-)
> > >
> > > Fine... right up to that last bit :)
> > >
> >
> > The correct answer in an interview to the question,
> >
> >     "What does $i=1,2; do?"
> >
> > is of course,
> >
> >     It increases my estimation of the mean time to failure
> >     of the system which the line resides in.
>
> Surely it decreases your estimate i.e. code like this is likely to
> fail sooner?
>

I read it as 'increases my ability to estimate' - which is true.

/J\