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yes it is
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not that i can tell
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Darn, that IS inconvenient! 
I recently read about Airpods: AirPods Are a Tragedy - VICE[^]
The way I see it, they (and similar products) should be banned by law.
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Agreed 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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If they made vacuum cleaners, they wouldn't suck.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: After, say, a 4000 executions, simply stop the software and demand that the customer buys a complete new license
You obviously don't have that kind of customers who expect eternal premium service, just because they grabbed your software from a bargain bin at Walmart.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: You obviously don't have that kind of customers who expect eternal premium service, just because they grabbed your software from a bargain bin at Walmart.
One of the things you can get out of this story is that the company doesn't care about the customers expectations; only about it's perception.
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They will quickly change their perception as soon as they have some of the customers with torches and pitchforks at their door and/or a decent shitstorm in the internet.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That's the idea of a free market, where those kind of companies are replaced by new "innovative" competitors. So where are they?
There's so many shitstorms on the internet, it would get snowed under. Nothing the marketing-department can't handle with a few well-placed ads.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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That has been the problem with shitstorms, even long before the internet. Nobody cares when it is just a shitbreeze.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well a category 3 sh*t hurricane is a doozey until you experience a category 4 sh*t hurricane.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: So, why don't we do that with software? After, say, a 4000 executions, simply stop the software and demand that the customer buys a complete new license.
One of the first systems I worked on used ints for customer IDs. This was VB6 so ints were 16 bit. It lasted more than 4000 executions, but not more than 32767 users.
(edit: true story BTW, the guy who made the decision to use "int" was a SQL DBA who thought a VB6 int was the same as a SQL int)
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A simple application could have proven that they're not the same. So you opted to give the DBA what he wants, knowing the error.
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It was an existing application, he was the MD and I was straight out of uni. Neither of us had the experience to be doing what we were doing 
Thank God for "find and replace all".
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Neither of us had the experience to be doing what we were doing
Sorry for the accusation, currently not in the best of moods.
F-ES Sitecore wrote: Thank God for "find and replace all".
So the app is now using strings instead? 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: So the app is now using strings instead?
Don't be silly, it's VB6.
Variant.
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Bastard Programmer from Hell
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Hmm, well back in the mid-90s I was handed a problem one of our clients had with our system.
A part I had never heard of, but I was the de facto primary support person for the client.
It turned out to be the ability to extract a list of customers (from Oracle on an AlphaServer) and import it into Excel (on Win 95?). And no one had realized that Excel (95?) limited the number of rows in a worksheet to... fourteen bits !? WTE!
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: It turned out to be the ability to extract a list of customers (from Oracle on an AlphaServer) and import it into Excel (on Win 95?). And no one had realized that Excel (95?) limited the number of rows in a worksheet to... fourteen bits !? WTE!
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the original design optimized ram usage by using the high 2 bits in the row ID to pack a pair of flags into an int16. MaxRows and MaxColumns were picked to limit how badly you could overwhelm system ram and bring the system to an utter and total crawl via swapping; and ~4m cells would be enough to crush a mid 90s system. Dynamic max rows/columns limits based around a cell cap would be too confusing for non-technical users.
Limits went up to 64k x 256 in Excel 97 and and 1M x 16k in Excel 07. Libre Office and Google Sheets have lower limits; the Dump Everything Into a Single Denormalized Sheet report in my current project exceeds both of the non-MS spreadsheets. (I think the customer just uses it as input for a stats tool.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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I once ran out of auto increment IDs on a SQL int (after a bug with an infinite loop, I think).
I figured it out after a lot of weird bugs and lots of debugging
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From a sheer hardware level 286 was easier to interface to! Poke & Peek, ahh memory's! 
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glennPattonWork wrote: From a sheer hardware level 286 was easier to interface to! Poke & Peek, ahh memory's!
I would think a 286 is more complex than a washing-machine microcontroller.
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Too busy checking Kickstarter.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Dude, you need to take a chill pill. Do be so bitter! 
I agree though we, as caretakers of the Earth, ought be more conscientious.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Dude, you need to take a chill pill. Do be so bitter!
I feel swindled, as machines that are 30 years older were even better to service and better for the environment.
TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: I agree though we, as caretakers of the Earth
Made me laugh.
We're not, and the marketing on it is a lie.
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