Some programmers need a good kicking

[submarine_bells]

My data collection is being... difficult. The fact that the uni laptop that I'm using for some of the on-road tasks has a habit of running out of battery power mid-task even when it should have plenty of juice is deeply aggravating. (Auto power adapter is now on order for it.) But what's really pissing me off right now is the software that I'm

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[reverancepavane]

As a programmer I can honestly say that what you have actually discovered is actually an undocumented feature rather than a bug. I personally blame the technical writer types, who can't be bothered with completing the user documentation correctly, viz:
Precognative Interview Removal: If you suspect that the upcoming interview will seriously skew your data away from your predicted results you can give the interviewee an arbitrarily high subject ID and the interview will be automatically discarded without adversely influencing your results.
See. We are always trying to be helpful, in increasingly interesting and bizarre ways.

[submarine_bells]

I'm touched, truly touched, that the programmer would go to such methods to anticipate my needs. Just as the programmer would be, um, touched, if I came within ten feet of him while carrying a large blunt object.