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who said it was a problem? 
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A few years back I went through a half dozen or so rounds of:
1) It's in stock
2) Order placed, CC charged
3) A few days to a week later, out of stock order cancelled
courtesy of sunshines running sites apparently based around drop-shipping products direct from the manufacturer instead of holding any inventory who hadn't bothered to update their elephanting site when the item was discontinued. Eventually I did find a vendor who actually had one in stock.
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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I am creating an online shopping cart but ... well inventory is a tricky subject.
1) I have to account for manufacturing loss, it could have been in stock when you ordered
2) I don't want my inventory stored online so it is a temp DB that is updated routinely
3) A lot of pre-fab carts don't truly support real inventory but a mock inventory with quantity (one of the reasons I dumped Shopify) so it can really take a programmer to implement.
Bottom-line, who knew that doing it right was actually a challenge? From the other side, I wish the tools available worked better, you either go with a full solution that is so bloated it accounts for everything and requires a hex-core Pentium extreme future edition to run or you go hosted which is the "vendors" way or you have to write it yourself. And I thought online commerce was a solved market too!
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THAT'S interesting.
Wiring a front end website to inventory management system can only be as good as the inventory management system, to be sure.
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The bubble burst on my optimism back when I was fiending for the new version of Delphi (in the early 2000s.) I knew it hadn't been released, but someone said they had it in stock.
Aghast, I called them up just to play dumb and harass them. I spent 10 minutes "expressing my concerns that it would be shipped on time" before telling the salesderp that I knew it wasn't out for 2 weeks yet and Whither Yon Pachyderm did they think they were doing.
Now I only deal with a couple vendors for stuff technology. Tiger/Newegg/Amazon. Anyone else can go hang.
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mikepwilson wrote: Whither Yon Pachyderm
Worth an up-vote just for that phrase! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Not gonna lie, I spent WAY too much time on that and have been waiting for an excuse to use it.
#nerd
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I like the yearly April Fools jokes that Chris and the team play but think we should get a bit of our own back next year?
I thought about..
1.) Nobody logging in - Obviously not going to work.
2.) Hitting sugs & bugs with fake bugs - Probably not very social
3.) Speaking in French all day - There must be better ideas
4.) All changing our profile pic to some pre-defined image.
There must be some better ideas out there? (Hopefully they would have forgot by the time it comes around)
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DDoS?
Edit: For those who didn't get my point, it was a joke.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
modified 29-Apr-14 8:43am.
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I only upvoted this because it made me giggle, not because of the serious threat.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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P0mpey Returns wrote: 4.) All changing our profile pic to some pre-defined image.
this[^].
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P0mpey Returns wrote: some better ideas
5. The current incarnation of Pompey never logs-in again. That will leave all of us in stitches.
cheers, Bill
“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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P0mpey Returns wrote: Speaking in French all day
I do that a lot, actually.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Make every post in the lounge a repost.
Make every post in SoapBox a reposted old joke.
Make every post in Q&A a "Plz snd codez" homework question.
......
:checks calendar: 
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I haven't looked at CP since the end of last week, so please forgive me for bringing up an old post, but I believe it is in everyone's best interest to familiarize yourselves with the vows that members of the Repost Police needs to take:
Quote: Reposters gathers, and now my watch begins.
It shall not end until my death.
I shall tolerate no repost, hold no hands, forgive no laziness.
I shall search for the source and provide a link to it.
I shall live and die at my post.
I am the downvoter in the darkness.
I am the watcher of the forums.
I am the fire that burns the lazy,
the light that exposes the dumb,
the hero that larts the lusers,
the shield that guards the realms of CP.
I pledge my life and honor to the Repost Police,
for this post and all the posts to come.
The vows are usually taken in the presence of Bob, the hamsters and a Leslie Nielsen shrine.
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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Haven't I seen that before somewhere?
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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BotCar wrote: Leslie Nielsen shrine
Why not Leslie? 
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Ooooh no,
I missed my chance to fall in love, to see my future and lose some weight.
Now it will be harder for me to see the right posts and do all of the above.
I will be lonely and fat 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: I will be lonely and fat
No you won't - you'll still have chocolate!
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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On the long run, the later *could* be related to the chocolate.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
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Or lead to the development of Chocoholism[^]...
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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I first heard the term here: http://www.amazon.com/Chocolate-Consuming-Passion-Sandra-Boynton/dp/0894801996[^] many years ago. It's a book for people who like chocolate. Using "like" as in "I like to breathe".
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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You don't want Ali to hear you say that! 
Not that Ali is overweight - far from it, I suspect - but saying "chocolate is fattening" is like saying "bacon is bad for you". Clearly, false information! 
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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I'm certainly far from judging other members body shape.
Quote: *could* be related to the chocolate.
*could* in the sense of may, or may not.
Yes, I posted something that says nothing at all, in best Swiss manner
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
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