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Eddy Vluggen wrote: There's not much Delphi around these days, and it's not because the language is bad - it is because their marketing is.
The idiotic decision not to have a free version is the main reason for its demise.
You'd think that people who owned a visual language based on Pascal (which itself became incredibly popular because it was free, and used in schools) would have got the hint about excluding hobbyists and students.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The idiotic decision not to have a free version is the main reason for its demise.
hence, "expensive"; I'd have paid 20 euro's, just not the price they were asking for a non-full version.
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20 euros, 2,000 euros -- it's only a couple of decimal places  
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I'd have placed the number, if it was in the right thread; but here, it is just an ad hominem on a mistake.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: ad hominem
Leave that term for the trolls, who love it so much (or, at the very least, use it properly).
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Ask TrollSlayer who I am.
And yes, thank you for admitting you have no arguments.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: And yes, thank you for admitting you have no arguments.
No arguments about what? We weren't debating anything.
Take a chill-pill, Kiddo.
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Oh, I remember spending many happy hours staring at the car-dashboard installer for Delphi, as I moved from machine to machine.
It was bloody boring, but I was happy to not have to use VB.
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*yawn*
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I hear that the updates for weven are the best they've ever been.
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Two years ago, we announced an ambitious goal to become the leading enterprise cloud for B2B startups in the world. Called Microsoft for Startups, we launched a founder-first program that delivers the technology, go-to-market and community benefits needed to catalyze startup success. "For money can't buy me love"
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OK, I forced myself through the first few paragraphs of this unreadable drivel, before realising that I just don't care enough to waste my time reading marketing bull of this low calibre.
I'll just go and keep myself busy with my current 999-billion in sales opportunities* without added github and microsoft whoziwatsit.
* Because 999-billion potential birds in the bush might even result in one of them ending up in the hand.
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To help developers reach ultimate success during their interviews, hiring leaders offered advice on habits and tactics to avoid when interviewing for a job. Mental note: Don't use the whiteboard to draw a caricature of the hiring manager
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Couple responses I found out don't seem to go over well with the interview team.
"Convicted? No, never convicted".
"Oh my last boss? He was so rude and unfair. Fired me for something I didn't even do....my work."
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So there's no need to bother about being careful when talking about the work you did at other companies?
Me, I tend to take it quite seriously when a candidate gives away one or more clues about a previous employer's crown jewels, because I wouldn't want the same to be done with mine, later.
i.e. It's worth bearing in mind that if you tell me too much about your previous employer's products, you won't be hired.
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You can talk about the work you did without disclosing proprietary info. There's no such thing as a copyright on dev technique.
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#realJSOP wrote: You can talk about the work you did without disclosing proprietary info.
Sure, but if a guy tells you how he came up with a new feature that gave his employers an advantage over their competition and then starts describing how it works, you know that you've encountered the ship-sinking kind of lips*.
The guy who says "Obviously, I can't go into much detail about it" will be the one who makes it through to the next round.
* Twice, this has happened to me, not just once. I told the second one to stop, because he was risking litigation with his previous employer. Hopefully, he never did it again.
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NASA has confirmed that an asteroid larger than the tallest man-made structure in the world is currently travelling towards Earth at a speed of almost 34,000 miles per hour. Thankfully, it'll likely miss us by a few million miles. On three, everyone duck
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...and then you jump to the left...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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... Then a step to the right...
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You got it!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Of course, at that speed, if it hits a peanut-sized rock going a similar speed in a different direction, the resulting explosion could change its trajectory by a couple of thousandths of a degree.
Still, it would save us a bit of time. Global warming is just too damned slow!
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Has anyone called Bruce Willis?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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He says he's not up for moonlighting, any more.
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