Users in exotic locations?

[wossname]

Today at work I actually had some positive feedback from a customer! This is the first time in 3 years that news from that there outside world has filtered all the way back to me in the murky dungeons of R&D. This meager offering made my day in what would otherwise have been a completely pointless week.

What makes it all the more exciting is that the origin of said praise was one of our major customers in the United Arab Emirates. In the UAE everyone is (by law) forced to have their entire skeletons replaced with diamonds.

Apparently we've also shipped recently to places like Sydney, Seth Efrika, Holland, Belgium () and Indonesia. Although this information never tends to reach the ears of us poor sods in the coding pits.

How come my code gets to have better holidays than me?

Do you guys ship apps across the seven seas? If so then lets hear about it!

[Shaggy Hiker]

My fish have been caught north of Japan. Apparently, I give good cod.

[wossname]

I heard about that on the net. Could you be more Pacific?

[Shaggy Hiker]

The fish were caught in a research trawl, so I rather think they were probably in seine.

[wossname]

Interesting, very deep. I'm not sure that corellates with reality.

[kleinma]

my commercial software only gets sent out to 4 states here. I guess I should be considered lucky I don't have to worry about things like localization and international settings.

I do have to support Win98-Vista, so that makes me sad.

[I_Love_My_Vans]

The software I create is deployed a whole 10 feet away from my desk, beautiful :P

[visualAd]

I have been working on data that was originally collected in Turkey.

[zaza]

...What makes it all the more exciting is that the origin of said praise was one of our major customers in the United Arab Emirates. In the UAE everyone is (by law) forced to have their entire skeletons replaced with diamonds...

Next week, they will buy the company, sack all the dead wood and bring in the VBF Allstars, such as dclamp and klegg, on exorbitant salaries. You, of course, will remain on your meagre pittance. Welcome to the UAE.

[dee-u]

My code gets to Iraq and Afghanistan...

[wossname]

Next week, they will buy the company, sack all the dead wood and bring in the VBF Allstars, such as dclamp and klegg, on exorbitant salaries. You, of course, will remain on your meagre pittance. Welcome to the UAE.

The new Managing Director does look a lot like Jacob Roman now you come to mention it.

[dsheller]

I have been working on data that was originally collected in Turkey.

I work on turkey that was originally collected by Mr. Data.

[homer13j]

If you have purchased an automobile from a U.S. dealer east of the Mississippi in the last ten years chances are good that I wrote the code that printed out all the endless legal papers you had to sign.

You're welcome.

[Blakk_Majik]

My code gets used literally around the world. US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, India, China, etc., etc.

It's unreal to me, especially when I look back at this thread. Just a couple of years ago, I was a broke college student making tiny programs/sites to get a grade in a class. Now I help write software that makes sure the company is paid millions and millions of dollars from every continent almost.

[mendhak]

My code moves from place to place, it's used in airplanes.

No, it doesn't crash, but that's a very original joke.

[oceanebelle]

My code has lurked in the piers of Canary Wharf, graced the cosplay display stands of Tokyo and gurgled in the lava pits of the Philippines.

[mar_zim]

My code moves from Philippines to Atlanta and vice versa.

They sent it back because it crash regularly.

[arunb]

Blakk_Majik.... So how come the 'posts' in your old topic and the new topic are the same...

[Hack]

Well, one of these days all of you folks will really have something to talk about if, and only if, you have the extremely rare, and very good, fortune to include Sterling Heights in your destinations.

So many try...so few succeed.

[wossname]

I beat up a tramp in Minnesota once. Does that count?

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Did you steal his stuff?

[zaza]

Of course he did. The tramp was running a rare and valuable antique version of Solaris on his ZX80.

[Hack]

I beat up a tramp in Minnesota once. Does that count?

Only if he was a Golden Gopher.

[wossname]

Ubuntu users?

[Hack]

Minnesota Golden Gophers

[mendhak]

Today at work I actually had some positive feedback from a customer! This is the first time in 3 years

I was receiving awards here before I had joined this company. When I did finally join, I was assigned a storage room where they had been keeping all the awards that I had preceived (I invented that word (and got an award for it too)).

Apparently another company has informed me that I am receiving awards there, which probably means that I will be joining them soon.