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I've just ordered a chamber vacuum sealer for my birthday*, and ten minutes after placing the order on FleaBay I get an email.
From DPD - the courier company - to say it'll be delivered Tuesday, and they'll email me when it leaves the depot to tell me what hour it will be delivered...
Bear in mind it's nearly 17:00 on a Saturday, and it's pretty amazing! 
* Herself delegates the entire purchase process to me, including deciding what to get, where to get it, how much to pay for it. In extreme cases I get to gift wrap it for myself as well. But ... I do get what I wanted rather than "socks", "pajamas", or other cr@p!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A while ago I placed an order on Sunday night and only checked my email on Tuesday morning just so I would know when it would arrive. It took me several minutes to work through my confusion to understand that the package had already been delivered.
Where I am now and currently it appears possible that I might order something and it will be delivered in just a couple of hours. So I need to check that email more promptly.
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I ordered a Chromebook from Coolblue in the Netherlands on saturday and it was delivered the next day in the afternoon !
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Quote: Sometimes, the internet is just too quick
Quote: I've just ordered a chamber vacuum sealer for my birthday*
Let me guess, your birthday is on Wednesday then.
Now tell me how better is the sealer than a glowing pajama?
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Nah, end of the month - but I know what "delivered in 2 or three days" normally means, and Herself would be upset if it was late.
Plus I need to buy some bags, as it doesn't need the embossed ones I have to use for the current (external suction) machine.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Ah, the magic of a few B2B APIs being called in the right sequence. 
/ravi
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I really have just developed some serious concern for your cat.
The shedding just can't be that bad, can it? The litter box was naturally taken care of by nighttime deliveries to neighbors mailbox (post box, even if it's not on a post?), so it must be the shedding.
Don't start giving me some quick and ill considered answer of getting an answer to the famous Shroedinger's Cat in a Bag Question by using a transparent bag. I don't think I'd believe that.
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Is this your contribution to saving the whale?
(The rest of us just use straws)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Long before internet, I worked with a minicomputer manufacturer - "mini" was about the size of a fridge in those days. One contract was cancelled after the computer had been lifted into the truck. Before we got around to move the stuff back to storage, another order was confirmed by phone, exactly the same model, for another customer in town. So the truck was immediately sent on its way, and half an hour after the order confirmation, the half ton computer was delivered at the customer's premises (before he had had the time to cancel...)
These were computer that took 24 working hours, three days, to assemble, so there usually was around two weeks of lead time. This customer was very happy with the quick service, and certainly did not want to cancel the contract.
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When I first started programming I read a lot of articles about a lot of programming subjects.
I've bookmarked many many articles over the years about OOP, design patterns, architecture, databases, functional programming, algorithms...
And I just went through the list and deleted almost all of them.
First and foremost because a lot of them are outdated or are no longer relevant for me (like WinForms articles or "getting started with x" from 2010).
But also because I now know a lot about the subjects those articles talk about, like SOLID and SQL injection.
It's kind of funny to realize I once thought it necessary to bookmark an article about resource files.
It's awesome that I'm having the same job as 8 years ago yet I do completely different things and I'm still learning weekly.
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kmoorevs wrote: My resources were mostly 1000+ page books
1000+ pages 
I got a few books in my early days, mostly like 300 to 400 pages, but nowadays I just read the docs of whatever I'm trying to learn.
kmoorevs wrote: the MSDN CDs that came every quarter
I remember those, my dad always got them.
kmoorevs wrote: I hardly ever bookmark anything anymore since most things are available via Google in mere seconds
Me neither for the same reason.
kmoorevs wrote: The application that I started working on back in '99 is still going strong
Did you manage to keep the used technologies up-to-date? I've always found that to be the hardest part of programming...
If you can't, working on such an old application could be a nightmare
In my experience there's never time or money to upgrade or replace outdated technologies 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Did you manage to keep the used technologies up-to-date?
Good question. The answer is no...well sort of...it's a work in progress but will take a considerable amount of 'slack' time which there never seems to be enough of. I figure I've got another 5 years before MS stops including the VB6 runtimes and another few years before my customers migrate to that future OS. There's still time! I keep waiting to be able to afford a junior developer to pawn it off on. 
Sander Rossel wrote: If you can't, working on such an old application could be a nightmare
Actually, it's not bad at all...everything still works fine under Win10. It does get aggravating that the scroll wheel doesn't work there though and intellisense is not as intelligent.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: the VB6 runtimes
kmoorevs wrote: it's not bad at all
Sounds like a bad case of the Stockholm Syndrome 
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Sander Rossel wrote: having the same job as 8 years ago yet I do completely different things and I'm still learning weekly
/ravi
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You're never too old to learn.
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Yes, I have reached the age where I only need one video.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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In my experience a lot of people get too old to want to learn though 
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I was born in 1945. I spent this morning learning LINQ, I am currently learning some very basic Hebrew, and have a list of other things that I still want to learn.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I am currently learning some very basic Hebrew
מגניב!
Richard MacCutchan wrote: I spent this morning learning LINQ
I know programmers who're not retired and who still refuse to properly learn and apply LINQ (or SQL and even .NET in general)
Perhaps it's not so much an age thing, but a mentality thing.
And not many people like learning at all when they can spend their evenings in front of the television
My parents both picked up studies at the Open University and they're well in their 50's and 60's.
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Sander Rossel wrote: well in their 50's and 60's.
My eldest son will be 50 in June.
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I'm in my 60s and I'm still programming and learning new stuff every day. Once I no longer find that interesting I shall stop!
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You youngsters. 
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You dinosaurs.
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Growl, screech, munch.
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