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Sander Rossel wrote: he's a great manager and salesman
Ah that explains it, coding is not his primary job. In the 90's I made a living turning apps built by these sort of people into well designed database applications so I have seen many of these. I once spent 3 years following a particular "consultant" from site to site rebuilding his systems.
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Still doesn't explain it 
His primary job was coding, it wasn't until he started his own company that he went into sales and management.
He went from Clipper and DBase to VB to VB.NET and SQL Server.
And he still did plenty of programming after that.
He never quite got out of that Clipper and DBase mindset though.
I know this guy pretty well 
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Sander Rossel wrote: written by someone with over 30 years of experience in software development
Are you sure he didn't say "I had an experience with software development 30 years ago"?
But seriously, it's hard to believe you didn't just make this up, it's so funny to think this actually happens. I look forward to the next update 
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Sander Rossel wrote: This is a fairly recent application written by someone with over 30 years of experience in software development 
Sounds like someone from pre-RDBMS times who is still doing exactly what he used to do when he started out with C-ISAM or something of that ilk. Probably thinks he's bang up-to-date 'cos he does the odd bit of VB6 and no longer keeps his code on 5 1/4 floppies.
Sander Rossel wrote: And he's not even the worst software developer I know 
That's SCARY!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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kmoorevs wrote: it was written in C#
Crappy code can (and is) written in any language.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Yeah, that was kind of my point...a response to the predictable VB shaming. We really need a sarcasm icon or tag.
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Sander Rossel wrote: This is a fairly recent application written by someone with over 30 years of experience in software development
...and most of those 30 years have been spent at the same company, I'm guessing...?
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Three in total, the last roughly 20 years his own company.
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Elite trooper joins group of football fanatics and shows his colours (12)
Elite trooper - Marine
Football Fanatics = Ultras
Colours = ULTRAmarineS
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
modified 23-Oct-19 9:10am.
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OK - so what was it? I got nothin'.
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See above - obviously not as lemon squeezy as I thought!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Never heard Ultras used for football fanatics  and I could only think of SAS for the elite soldier ( which is what they're known as )
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AKA "The Perils of Outsourcing".
/ravi
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And they played Chinese Whispers with the contract price.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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No fun for me … It seems that I am geographically excluded…  Never mind ...
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 Me too!
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Yep, me too
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Uuuuu, stephen king time I think... lol
Charlie Gilley
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What do you get when you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by it's diameter?
Pumpkin Pi
I know the way out!
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What is this American fixation with the flavour of pumpkin for a month or so each year? Pumpkin pie, pumpkin spice this, pumpkin spice that ... I just don't get it.
To me honest I don't think I've ever eaten one, and I doubt I'd ever want to.
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I hate pumpkin but the better half does all that pumpkin crap.
The only good pumpkin is the one you carve up.
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Mike Hankey wrote: The only good pumpkin is the one you carve up.
or one you can hurl a few thousand feet. Punkin chunkin[^]
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