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Tel Aviv: I'm told it Israeli a fun place to go.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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bring a partner, always more fun when you kosher
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Jewish mate!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Well Galilee, that was a tough one to catch. There's Eilat to be said for visiting Israel.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Ask for them cookies[^] and pray they don't colonize your arse.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That one was so bad, I have Haifa mind to report it as abuse.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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His posts are so bad, it makes me think he has a Holon his head.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That pun Gaza ginst all my principles. Jewish to repent?
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Aaand another one Uzis soon the drain...
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Oh Meirs - I am Begin you to stop this. Peres the thought that this might Sharon the Netanyahus started spreading it around.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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There is weekly quiz on the German c't computer magazine web page. This week you have to identify system crash screens. I reached at least more points than 50% of the participants. I failed to get those of Windows 8.1 (never used that; only 7 and 10).
But it raises the question for me when I last had one. As far as I remember it is about 6 years ago where a defective RAM module was the reason.
For those who want to try it even not knowing German (which is not really necessary for doing the quiz but makes it a little bit harder when not uderstanding the short questions which contain sometimes additional information): #TGIQF - das Quiz: Crash mich noch mal! | heise online[^]. Just click "Quiz starten", the (hopefully correct) answer (be quick; short times count for points), and "Weiter" (Next) to continue.
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For me it looks more like a glory hole (within mine the computers are at least properly stacked) 
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... ohhh ... "weiter" ...
(werde ich sie ausknocken)
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Pshaw. My recently-retired old work computer blue-screened slightly more often than once a day.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gone are the days where you make a piece of shareware-type software and expect to make serious money for it. For instance, I use Sublime Text 3 a lot. It's awesome. The peeps that made that did a fantastic job. It's fast and lightweight and very customizable. And it's only $80 to register. Yes, there are free alternatives but few are as zippy as Sublime. Here's the kicker though, every tutorial you see online using Sublime usually says unregistered more times than not in the titlebar. Which I don't get... it's only $80 and the amount of work that went into making the software must've been insane. And you can use one license at home and work with very few restrictions. It's great.
I know in the world of GPL and with so many young kids online now, free is where it's at on the surface. And people will gladly give up human rights, privacy, their first born's livelihood, etc. as long they have the illusion of free by not costing dollars upfront. But, let's just assume developers also have bills like the rest of the world and so money is useful. I'm curious how y'all monetize software these days since clearly, unless it's a very niche piece of software then there's usually a free alternative to whatever we're making now.
Anyone still using the ol' shareware try before you buy model? I know there are some people that'll have two product offerings. A dinky one that's free to get them in the door and a real one that's complimentary that costs money. I know people will pay for perceived value, it's just software is becoming so common place it's perceived value is going down in and of itself (for average stuff online, not LOB software). So it's either go niche or go home, or create a service people will rely on.
Right now the best model I can see with niche software, that is not a service, is to keep the software "free" but then sell any required knowledge to actually make use of it. Which like LOB apps, also require business domain knowledge to really make use of. Knowledge is still valuable and certain things take a skill to make work. So it has a low barrier to entry on the surface, but realistically it won't do you one bit of a good unless you know what you're doing with it and really know what you're doing outside of faking it.
To use an analogy, basically let's say I have a hammer (the software). If I give someone a hammer, nobody realistically expects a person to magically be able to a build a house with zero training now. On the flip side, for those that can build homes, you need a hammer to do so. So you give the shiny hammer away for free knowing full good and well, it's going to be useless to the untrained hand. But now you have my hammer and know my company name. So, the hammer is considered the cost of customer acquisition now and sell the info required to train people to use the hammer.
I'm there are other ways to make money with software I'm not aware of. So, I'm curious. Is there anyone in CP land actually making any real money with software outside of LOB apps or services? And if so, what model are you using?
Jeremy Falcon
modified 17-Nov-17 9:28am.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Gone are the days where you make a piece of shareware-type software and expect to make serious money for it.
Take a look at "Stardew Valley"; created by a single person, and still a commercial game.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It seems that the Shareware with option to buy model still exists in the mobile realm, albeit slightly modified. You can download the software and use either a fully functional version with ads, or a nearly fully functional version with ads. Then for a fee you can have the ads removed.
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There is a special place for developers who choose to have ads plus in-app purchases in their software. I do my best to never reward their behavior.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Here's the kicker though, every tutorial you see online using Sublime usually says unregistered more times than not in the titlebar.
Less an answer but more of an observation. There was a post not too long ago along the same lines about how more and more people are expecting software to be free. With Google providing so many solutions for "free", Microsoft floated the idea of an ad supported version of Office, and 99.9% of mobile applications being free with ads built in, we're used to it and expect it.
I've noticed this at previous places of employment, such as large companies where 'developers' are using VS Community and SQL Express. People who still for some strange reason install WinRAR and then of course never register it (that one still boggles my mind, given their business practices). Heck, when I first started working I remember a senior dev telling me how to completely remove the trial version of Toad so the timer would reset.
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RJOberg wrote: such as large companies where 'developers' are using VS Community and SQL Express.
funny how these large companies selectively ignore the licensing terms of some packages such as VS Community, but freak out at the thought of using software labelled as 'pirated' or 'hacked' or installed with a 'patch' - what's the difference, either way it's violation of the terms ticked during installation.
Apparently the most common method of 'pirating' windows/office is exactly the same as what you mentioned for Toad - the hack is just regularly resetting the 30 days license grace period.
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RJOberg wrote: There is a special place for developers who choose to have ads plus in-app purchases in their software. I do my best to never reward their behavior.
Same here brother.
RJOberg wrote: Less an answer but more of an observation. There was a post not too long ago along the same lines about how more and more people are expecting software to be free. With Google providing so many solutions for "free", Microsoft floated the idea of an ad supported version of Office, and 99.9% of mobile applications being free with ads built in, we're used to it and expect it.
RJOberg wrote: I've noticed this at previous places of employment, such as large companies where 'developers' are using VS Community and SQL Express. People who still for some strange reason install WinRAR and then of course never register it (that one still boggles my mind, given their business practices). Heck, when I first started working I remember a senior dev telling me how to completely remove the trial version of Toad so the timer would reset.
I've seen that too. So far it seems to be with the younger generation who are a bit too used to free crap or from devs who really haven't quite matured enough to realize people have bills to pay. I mean, I realize VS Code has some things VS does not since (it's lightweight too), but still by and large you get more umph from the real deal.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: So far it seems to be with the younger generation who are a bit too used to free crap
I do not see any difference.
Before the internet I had to repeatedly tell people that they could not copy code from books. And that got a lot easier with books that came with disks. I was the only one that ever documented licenses and specifically investigated licenses when other people imported code.
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Adsense/Doubleclick is one way. Get a lot of users to spend a lot of time on your app or site and get some revenue.
I actually started to make an android media player for my own personal usage, because I'm not happy with what is out there. If I get the time to polish it properly, might just as well put it in the app store to see what would happen.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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