@bummi, I was just looking at your and it reminded me I used to sell a few small Delphi components, just prompted me to look for the source and looks like almost 20 years ago. Was well ahead of it's time at that stage.
In the interest of learning and how others do things, what do people think of this: meta.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/38537 - The edit does improve the answer, made it more structured and readable etc. But I rejected as it's completely changed the writing style of the answerer and taken the personality out of it.
@James I would have approved it (on sites where I could). It makes it significantly easier to read and the personal style parts are mainly fluff that didn't add to the answer really, as opposed to some edits that just seem to change it for the sake of it.
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Suggestion: exclude repeated tilde ~~~~~ from repeated chars test; it's used for separation just as ----- and ======
@bummi, never thought to look when Delphi 1 was released but was 1995 same year as when the first of my project files is dated. Probably explains why I was actually able to sell a few copies of components that did relatively simple things like access CSV files like a table.
But here on Stack Overflow, professionalism stops all of it from happening.
@Uni You say that now, then AstroCB pushes hard for filter criteria reform, bjb ends up staying in the race, and wins in an upset by a landslide because he's the only one whose name anybody remembered from all the drama.
@LynnCrumbling You missed my earlier election pledge; TLDR I work, and at work I find it really distracting to have chat open, but if elected mod I will do so anyways :p
Someone sent me a ".zipx" file, and I couldn't decompress it with 7-zip, or the default compression tool on Win 7. I was like, "what is this?" And he said "oh, that's from WinZip 14, here I resaved it as a legacy zip file."
@jadarnel27 That's actually what I pinned the person that said that as when I read that comment. You may or may not understand how many facepalms per day I direct at IT people.
I like Windows 7 as an OS because I at least kind of understand how to do stuff with it. And I can play lots of games on it (although that's less limiting that it was a few years ago).
