My blog post yesterday on "22 years of Delphi with old ads" is 11th on Hacker news (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13650730) and also getting comments on reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5u4fb4/22_years_of_delphi_and_it_still_rocks/?st=iz71dvdk&sh=dc3cf604.

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My blog post yesterday on "22 years of Delphi with old ads" is 11th on Hacker news (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13650730) and also getting comments on reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5u4fb4/22_years_of_delphi_and_it_still_rocks/?st=iz71dvdk&sh=dc3cf604.
Feel free to chime in in these discussions... but better wait visiting my blog, as the current traffic is way above what the site can handle -- 1,200 active sessions, very high traffic because of the images...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13650730

Comments

  1. Marco CantùFebruary 15, 2017 at 6:52 AM

    I'll check for the robots.txt. Blog is on old infrastructure (a VM) and not keeping up. 1,500+ active sessions -- unique visitors past 20 min. I know I have to migrate it, but doing so keep the content is not trivial

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  2. Patrick HughesFebruary 15, 2017 at 7:52 AM

    I tend to agree with the fella regarding the steep update price. $900+/year is not something I'm going to shell out. I'll just go several years without updating (I went ~15 years on D5)

    Make it something a little more reasonable ($200-$250) for the little guys and I'd likely update year after year after year.

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  3. T n T (Kryvich)February 15, 2017 at 8:18 AM

    Delphi Starter is an excellent offer for amateurs and open source projects. It's good if more people will know about it. It would be great if the new version of Starter would include the Linux compiler, but I know this is hardly possible.

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  4. Brian HamiltonFebruary 15, 2017 at 10:56 AM

    if you are on update subscription, it is more like 300$ a year and not 900+

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  5. Patrick HughesFebruary 15, 2017 at 11:39 AM

    According to the bill sent to me at the time it was $843 This is Enterprise edition.

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  6. Mike MargerumFebruary 15, 2017 at 12:44 PM

    It's a little more than 800 for the annual subscription which is more than reasonable IMO

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  7. Patrick HughesFebruary 15, 2017 at 1:25 PM

    My apologies to Marco Cantù I didn't mean to derail your stream.

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  8. Mocte SandovalFebruary 15, 2017 at 6:55 PM

    Mike Margerum not IMHO

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