Re:On Counting (2017)
by hinkley on Friday May 25, 2018 @12:09PM
(#17155082)
I’m not sure I follow your argument here. You switched to a system where the data was downloaded continuously. You could have, with the shell script, easily:
* downloaded the files daily
* sorted and removed the intraday duplication in each new file.
* sorted and removed intraweek duplication each week and on the first of the month.
* You could give your customers a weekly estimate of their bill.
All of this would spread the work out and tell you when the system had glitched out weeks before the results were due.
* downloaded the files daily
* sorted and removed the intraday duplication in each new file.
* sorted and removed intraweek duplication each week and on the first of the month.
* You could give your customers a weekly estimate of their bill.
All of this would spread the work out and tell you when the system had glitched out weeks before the results were due.