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"Saved over 30 hours of manual work, where the worker had to find a PDF, Excel sheet row contents, and information from one other data source, combine them into
by jimmaswell 4y ago
"Saved over 30 hours of manual work, where the worker had to find a PDF, Excel sheet row contents, and information from one other data source, combine them into a formatted email with this information following certain conditions, and look up the right email to send it to. This was done with Python and the gmail api, <whatever the pdf library was, I forget>, and manual string parsing, building hashmaps of the information and sending the emails out once every 10 seconds to honor the rate limiting. Parsing failures or any other exception was logged for manual review."
All that extra detail seems trivial to me and covered well enough by the gist provided. Is this version really that much better for these details? Is it even enough detail for you yet? It feels like too much detail to me.
It was something about tax ID's and temporary merchant licenses for the state of Maryland.
- blandflakes 4y agoI think you're just being intellectually dishonest if you can't imagine some compromise between what you started with and what you have here, given the feedback you've received.
- jimmaswell 4y agoNo, I was honestly half expecting you to come back and say it still wasn't enough detail.
- blandflakes 4y agoThat's the actual definition of bad faith discussion. True to form, then :) Edit: An actual dramatic improvement is trivial to pull from your bait example, by the way: "Automated a manual process for collating tax ID and temporary merchant licenses for the state of Maryland, honoring rate limiting and supporting auditing of failures. Used Python and Gmail API". Obviously there is some precision loss in my writing because I didn't work on the project and because your description of "something about tax ID's" was ambiguous to begin with. Could even add "saving 30 hours a week/day/whatever".