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If you buy potatoes because you have too many leeks, and leeks because you have too many potatoes, is it a Vichyssoise cycle?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Are far fetched French puns Bourgognesome?
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You must have cabbage for brains.
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Now I know what your puns are merde of.
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That was pretty ouitty!
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Hmmm...
Anglesey eggs.
Good idea. Pass me my chef hat.
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you buy potatoes because you have too many leeks, and leeks because you have too many potatoes
... you are a f***ing idiot?
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What, so if you have too much of something, you buy more of it, rather than buy something else?
Fair enough. I'll grant that you've given a fair definition of what a f***ing idiot is.
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Still smarting about the cafe frappe eh?
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Still smarting about the cafe frappe eh? You must be, because you keep bringing it up, Mr. "I've googled, so I'm an expert!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's calling a spud a spud!
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I'm debugging some legacy VB code to figure out why a report is crashing, and encountered this fragment of SQL code:
e.TerminalType *= f.TerminalType
The last time I encountered a left outer join specified in that way was probably 20 years ago.
Marc
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The thing I hate most about syntax like that is that if you're not familiar with it it's near impossible to google.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: if you're not familiar with it it's near impossible to google.
It's because at that time we didn't have google... Nor internet... I think we did have colour TV though
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Mika Wendelius wrote: I think we did have colour TV though
With a remote control that was attached by a long wire
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That's why you have kids. Back then, they were the remote control.
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Exactly, and hair metal. I remember having hair metal back then. These days it's only plain metal
modified 7-Nov-16 13:28pm.
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Pretty sure hair metal was still around about 10 years ago.
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When I was in high school I'd take some old PC speakers and blast it in the corridor.
One morning the French teacher who was a proper English lady asked me to turn it off because she had a headache. I didn't know what a hangover was at that age, but I'm pretty sure that was the real reason.
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Marc Clifton wrote: The last time I encountered a left outer join specified in that way was probably 20 years ago.
Makes sense. That's also about the last time VB was considered a good idea.
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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
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Nah - we thought it was rubbish back then too.
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Hear! Hear!
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20 years ago it was considered a good idea by some people (the people churning out crap in it by choice). That people who preferred MFC, raw win32, or whatever *nix used at the time all thought it was a festering swamp doesn't change that then there were people who thought it a good idea for writing software (as opposed to a for a drinking game).
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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Nah, VB was, for a while, good for a very specific purpose: Writing simple GUI tools and database frontends quickly, without having to worry (much) about destabilizing the rest of the system or leaking out all the RAM with a badly-written MFC app.
It was never meant for high-end computing or commercial applications, though I've seen it used for both.
Just like Excel... It's an amazing application if you use it as a spreadsheet, or for prototyping. Once you have tons of VBA macros and entire applications written in it, you'll want to shoot yourself. Been there, too.
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