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Re:Delphi 11 and C++Builder 11 Community Editions Released by qorrect on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:02PM (#35733017)
Embarcadero is in the business of milking this dead product for all the juice that's left in it. I'd in no way _start_ a business using embarcadero, it's pretty much strictly for legacy products.
Re:Delphi 11 and C++Builder 11 Community Editions Released by langfan on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:26PM (#35733313)
Idera
Re:Delphi 11 and C++Builder 11 Community Editions Released by qorrect on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:24PM (#35734031)
Oh wow they have a bunch of stuff.

I won a Sencha Mobile contest once, an eternity ago, and the website was hosted on the designers server (I met him on the sencha forums). We had a cron script to scrape twitter, and that script is still running and sending me emails, and I haven't been able to get a hold of him since.

It's been sending me emails every 60 seconds for a decade with no way to for me to turn it off.

Chris if you're reading this, please clear the cron job on blackspade.

Re:Delphi 11 and C++Builder 11 Community Editions Released by mardifoufs on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:40PM (#35734227)
That's amazing! Is it still actually managing to scrape some data after all these years? Or do you just get emails with nothing in them?
Re:Delphi 11 and C++Builder 11 Community Editions Released by qorrect on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:43PM (#35734256)
Sorry that should have said the cron job is still sending me emails. No he uninstalled python at some point and it's just telling me that it's missing. I'll try to see how long it ran successfully though.