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Are they better salesmen or sailsmen?
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I bow to your superior knowledge as I don't want to have a row and rock the boat
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I worked for a small software company for over 12 years, developing Windows-based estate planning software using C++/MFC, and a bigger company bought us out in 1998. When they decided to move development of the software from San Diego to Idaho (in 2000), I quit, and moved to Texas because I've been to Idaho, and I wasn't impressed.
Out of curiosity, I googled to see if the software was still being sold. It is, but it still looks like it did back in the mid-90's. The forms have been updated to reflect new features, the company is still using screen shots that were made back when Windows XP was still popular, and they still talk about faxing stuff to your clients (I don't know anyone that even has fax capabilities in their home). The price of the software has also almost tripled since this company bought the company I worked for.
Every year, they have to update the code to reflect tax law changes (both federal and state-by-state), and it looks like that's all they've been doing for the last 15 years. There was at one point almost a million lines of code in this app.
I'm kinda surprised the software is still being sold, but I'm disappointed they haven't kept up with more modern platforms.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I don't know anyone that even has fax capabilities in their home
My Epson printer (BX305FW) has fax built in. Never connected it to a phone line though! 
It's possibly not that the software hasn't been updated to modern platforms, but that the software stopped selling so they didn't update it. Then just kept in on the website to add to the portfolio. Costs nothing to keep an old page live...
Plus, isn't Idaho about ten years behind the rest of 'Murica anyway?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, they're still selling it. I saw some articles about it form this year, and it's still listed on their web site.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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OriginalGriff wrote: Idaho
Idaho is awesome. No traffic, no crowds, beautiful landscape. Not much warm weather though. And all the potatoes you could ever want.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: And all the potatoes you could ever want.
As long as you're not picky about their quality. An acquaintance of mine who left the state recently said one of the best things about moving was that he could actually get good potatoes again; all that was available locally were QC rejects that weren't sellable anywhere else.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: all that was available locally were QC rejects that weren't sellable anywhere else.
That's what I found when I lived in Mexico. The worst looking tomato in the supermarket of America is better than the best looking tomato in Mexico's stores. They said it was because they sent all their good stuff to America. That's one reason they don't like America much. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: That's one reason they don't like America much.
Then stop doing it. It's not rocket science.
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harold aptroot wrote: Then stop doing it. It's not rocket science.
Stop buying the best produce available? OK. I'll stop.
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Having moved to the USA a couple of years ago I would challenge that the supermarkets get the "best" produce. What the American public are provided with are the largest and most regular shaped products. These are very rarely the "best".
I am sick and tired of apples and peaches the size of footballs and almost as spherical but which have no flavor and hideous mealy texture. I actively hunt out locally grown produce at farmers markets and will buy an ugly fruit or vegetable any/every day over the dreadful waste products source by the US food industry.
www.it-workplace.com"If a man speaks in a forest where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
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Andrew Wiles wrote: These are very rarely the "best".
True.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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In USA, "soccer balls" are spherical.
"footballs" are like pointy rugby balls.
I am with you on the taste/texture factor. Our few home grown fruits are too puny for the supermarkets, but they taste great!
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Yes, and that is another thing they have wrong!
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There's also millions of those folks coming over illegally. Must be after the good tomatoes they're sending here.
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Funny, in Hungary it's the other way around. If you go to the local markets, the local produce is always way better then anything you'll get in the supermarkets.
veni bibi saltavi
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Well, the same thing happens all over.
New Zealand has more sheep per capita than any other country (they thrive in Middle Earth's lush pastures).
But you can't get a decent lamb chop - the best ones all go to Japan, where they have become besotted with el-primo lamb.
And Tasmania is covered with millions of Apple trees - but only the export rejects are for sale locally.
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RyanDev wrote: all the potatoes you could ever want.
That is a much smaller number than you might think!
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OriginalGriff wrote: That is a much smaller number than you might think!
I'm worried that you actually calculated the value and have an exact number. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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OriginalGriff wrote: That is a much smaller number than you might think!
Agreed... I am NOT a meat and potatoes fan; meat, yes, potatoes.. rather have rice.
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Get thee behind me, Satan!
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I can, and will, eat raw potatoes, but the texture once they're cooked... if I try to eat them, anything that preceeded them is coming back to meet them. So, I just largely avoid potatoes.
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I love rice, but alas, I am diabetic and if I have to have starch then the 'tatoes are better than rice for sugar spikes.
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Slacker007 wrote: I love rice, but alas, I am diabetic and if I have to have starch then the 'tatoes are better than rice for sugar spikes.
Is Basmati rice any better for you? Lower GI, but not sure if good enough.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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