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Nothing as advanced as that - it's a daisy-wheel[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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5 to 10?!?! You are kidding...It seems they outsourced it to India or some other cheap place...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I could print it out myself and it would be faster for crying out loud... oh, wait...
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I have also noted a slack in the delivery of items, but mines from Amazon. Previously it would normally arrive the next day (1-3 days estimated delivery), now its 5-10 for priority express.
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That'll be the delivery people making unreasonable demands like weekends off again!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Nah, I think all packages are scanned on country entry, and that it's what's causing the main delay. Packages usually arrive in my country the next day when they are shipped from Britan.
I guess they are worried that a lot of shipments contains illegal substances.
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Well, yes, I can see you're upset, but surely if DVLA has posted the item any delay in it reaching you is the fault of the Post Office, not the perky civil servants down in Swansea? Just saying!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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You could possibly have a point except every frog and his tadpole knows 1st class should be 1-3 days. So I suspect someone is playing Silly Buggers again in Swansea.
veni bibi saltavi
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When I pay the DVLA, the money is gone straight away, a refund takes six weeks...
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What they mean is that they've put it in an envelope and dropped in the Outgoing Mail tray, which is only dealt with on Thursday mornings by someone who doesn't give a cr@p, and never empties it completely.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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At least one of 'em should have been "Elementy McElementface"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Damn! beat me to it.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I would have called one yippeekiyayium.
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...just answered a VB .NET question in QA, and the first line of his method is...
On Error Resume Next
I feel dirty for just having typed it.
Why isn't this abortion dead? Who is teaching people about this? And why?
If you see anyone recommending it, can you please, please, give them a swift kick where it really hurts?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Please! Never ever spoke to me again! Filthy VB lover...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Didn't think you acknowledged vb
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It is disgusting, just like
try {
} catch (Exception ex) { }
veni bibi saltavi
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It's worse than that! It's like:
try {
} catch (Exception ex) { }
try {
} catch (Exception ex) { }
try {
} catch (Exception ex) { }
try {
} catch (Exception ex) { }
try {
} catch (Exception ex) { }
try {
} catch (Exception ex) { }
try {
} catch (Exception ex) { }
... repeated 8000 times...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I once saw:
On Error Goto ErrorHandler
ErrorHandler:
MsgBox err
resume
veni bibi saltavi
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I saw it and my first advice was to remove it. Then to improve the code :p
Unfortunately, no, its not dead, there are still VB6 programmers - I'm currently working on a project that was written by VB6 turned VB.NET programmer and I'm still refactoring whenever I get the chance.
I have DAL interface with all data access methods defined in there...and I don't have time to split it so I continue adding to it when changing existing code. It is at 300+ methods right now. With two concrete classes implementing it.
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I know an old VB dinosaur who does it almost right...
Try
Dim sCode As String = 123
Dim Id As Integer
Dim someOtherVar As String
Catch (ex As Excpetion)
Log(Err.Message)
End Try I used to see this pre-.NET VB mixed with VB.NET a lot
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Ah, you would love Rx then, there is something called Retry there
Click and cry[^]
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