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Cheers. Can you remember what you were doing 20 years ago?
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Yes, driving a blue 'Tipo' with a general and a colonel on board.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Relaxing, after the most intense 6 months of development in my life, culminating with a ten consecutive days on a trade show stand in Dusseldorf for the product launch. Product went on to be the best seller the company had ever seen, and changed a £2M pa turnover company to a £5.6M pa company in the first year after we started selling it the following October. And it kept climbing from there, to peak at £12M pa and settle at around £10M.
I really, really, should have demanded a commision on each sale... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yep. I was in a shop whose flagship product was built on VB5 and C++. Ah, those innocent days of youth... I was also just beginning to poke my nose into .NET and Java. Weird, I know, but I had just been dropped into a project which had a Java client pulling data from a .NET web service. Thems were fun days! 
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Mmm. VB5 was three years later and .NET didn't launch until 2002.
As for Web Services in 1994, me thinks you drank too much KoolAid
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Yeah, I just realized the big mistake I made...I was thinking about 10 years ago! OMG!  How lame is that?
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I would have been at primary school ... in my last term there though.
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Quote: I will never look at them. Never!
You may be amused to learn that 15 years ago I walked away from a lot of VB3 code (also financial services) and thought I would never look back.
I recently "went back" on a short term contract. My mission? To convert that VB3 code (yep - still in production at that time) for use on Windows 7 ... to VB6 no less!
Clearly I was some high-end criminal in a previous life and have now paid my dues!! 
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15 years ago we'd moved to VB5 or 6, can't remember exactly, but a lot of the code base was the same.
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I'm still waiting for some VB6 to come back and bite me from a few years ago.
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glennPattonWork wrote: [...] from a few years days ago.
ftfy!
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No-no-no that last abortion was in .NET, the latest version. VB6 was a done many moons ago!
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Several years ago when I briefly reentered the software field I reapplied at a company I used to work for where I had written a C++ application that handled their call center...major company, 350 agents, 5K calls/day and found that they were still using it. That was quite a thrill to learn that, but didn't get the job!
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Mike Hankey wrote: found that they were still using it. That was quite a thrill to learn that, but didn't get the job!
That's a bit of of slap in the face  Think how much profit they have made in total using your software.
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When I left I was going through a very nasty divorce and I just walked out one day and never went back.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Mike Hankey wrote: I had written a C++ application
This explain that:
Mike Hankey wrote: didn't get the job
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I'd end up married to one of the locals.
It is really fun to go local'
(Imagine that sentence spoken in a crude Mexican drug lord's voice) 
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I never imagined that day that within a few year Budapest would be my real home and that I'd end up married to one of the locals.
I thought I saw her at the late night restaurant.
She would have sent blue shivers down the wall.
But she didn't grace our table.
In fact, she wasn't there at all.
Yes, and her legs went on forever.
Like staring up at infinity.
Her heart was spinning to the west-lands
and she didn't care to be
that night in Budapest.
Hot night in Budapest.
Lyrics from Jethro Tull's Budapest[^].
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Always like Jethro Tull but had never heard this song. Thanks
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Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Hi,
Thanks for your Story 
And a great song: [George Ezra - Budapest]
With friendly greetings,
Eric Goedhart
modified 15-May-14 9:46am.
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A most entertaining, and edifying, tale, thanks !
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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Hi All,
You may know of my frustrations with a certain project...I need to ship the end user projects and the like for there use, I am using the DropBox public folder, like all DropBox users I have all sorts of junk in there and am not really sure if I have enough size available, so I have tried to use Media Fire for the project source, which was met with a "use dropbox, not media fire it doesn't work properly" this left me a little confused.
I don't really want to pay out of my own pocket for an upgrade....
Glenn
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If you go to the DropBox website and log in, then look at the top right of the page there is a "drop arrow" beside your name. Click that and you get a pop-up which tells you "XXMB of YYGB used", which should tell you what space you have.
How much do you have free, and how much do you need?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Well the thingy says I have 2.4 GB of 3.75 GB used... I think I need more, how much is the question how much?
The Pro plan for £9.99 seems possible however I don't want to pay it!
I only started using DropBox for myself I kept forgetting memory sticks/cards and used it once to transfer some photos to the customer when he was at our office. Since then it's 'Glenn is set up to do big file transfers...'
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