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And Access is hardly any better. They called the Access database engine "jet" because it sucks and blows at the same time, and these days Microsoft themselves are using sqlite instead.
 
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And Access is hardly any better. They called the Access database engine "jet" because it sucks and blows at the same time, and these days Microsoft themselves are using sqlite instead.
Did Microsoft ever use it for anything other than a way to claim they provide a database product in Office?
 

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Did Microsoft ever use it for anything other than a way to claim they provide a database product in Office?
When I was a desktop guy I would see errors in logs from random Microsoft things that looked like they came from Access or Jet, but I have recycled most of those neurons since the last time I had to sit in front of a user's computer and figure out why their mail was broken or whatever.
 

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Why you shouldn't code in different languages in different dev environments at the same time:

I was writing a python app for a process I need to run in my Linux workspace that spits out data at the console on a regular basis. Meanwhile, I was also in SL fixing a script that also spits out data, to local chat.

Tired of local chat being filled with chatty nonsense, I typed "clear" for the third time before I realized why it was not doing anything. :hellokitty:
 

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i read once about a certain editor where in one of it's modes it had the following key bindings:
e - Exit
d - Delete
i - Iterative
t - Transmit (to server/mainframe)

Guess what happens when you acidentally typed "edit" in that mode?
 

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I wonder if this works for other languages. Python sources surely have a lot of swearing in it.
 
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Back in the '90s I was at a convention talking to Dennis Ritchie and this guy walked up wearing a tee shirt with /* You are not expected to understand this */ printed on it, and he laughed, and said that the rest of the comment was actually wrong so they hadn't understood it either.
 
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Sometimes...
 
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