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I’ve been in North America for a while now and there are still a bunch of cultural mainstays I just can’t get into: hockey, poutine, pumpkin pie, Ford F-150’s, ice storms... But I have to say that the pre-Christmas Turkey Day over indulgence, while slightly guilt inducing, is awesome
My understanding is that this is a time we say thanks for the things we have. In that spirit I'd like to say that in spite of the sheer hard work involved in running CodeProject, the flame wars, the server issues, the 24/7 nature of the internet, the bugs, complaints, the emails from the lost asking for just a little help, the industry egos and the insanely generous community we have, I’m thankful for every second of the last 20 years.
Happy Thanksgiving!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Of course, this is in Canada. In the US, Thanksgiving is in late November. When I worked in the US and people asked why Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving in early October, I told them it was because, by late November, there was no longer anything to be thankful for. 
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They were obviously feeding you a line of BS. By November you should be well into skiing season. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Chris, you can't get into Ford F-150's? I guess it depends on what you need. I remember an interview with an American farmer in The Economist, somewhere in the late '90s. He was rather blunt: "Pickup trucks built this country. I ain't hauling pigshit in a car." I was surprised that this made it verbatim into what is a rather staid publication.
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Give thanks with a grateful heart. 
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I'm always surprised that the wannabe-a-USA-mini-me island of Australia never picked up on this turkey tradition
then again with no native turkeys the logical choice would be the cassowary[^]
[sizewise] bit closer to turkeys then emus
- but then again, like everything in straya, they want to kill you too.
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Ahh but we do have a native turkey.
And they are delicious.
They are a protected species now though.
Called brush turkey, bush turkey, scrub turkey or gweela.
Pics here... and these little fellas don't want to kill us.
australian bush turkey - Google Search[^]
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Ahhmmm Australian brushturkey - Wikipedia[^] we have them but they are protected and not domesticated. Cassowaries are nasty, grumpy birds with bloody big claws, also protected.
lopatir wrote: the wannabe-a-USA-mini-me island of Australia never picked up on this turkey tradition
So am I - we take on so much of the US bullshit it is very dismaying. Thankfully we left guns out of our culture.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Ah, poutine, still got to try that one. The closest we have over here is: Kapsalon - Wikipedia[^]
Not my taste as I think the fries are spoilt by covering them with salad 
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RickZeeland wrote: Not my taste as I think the fries are spoilt by covering them with salad
could be worse, they might start putting mayonnaise on their french fries.
ahhh, that land where horses have beaks and chickens have paws.
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ahhh lunch time!
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Isn't it like the anti-turkey day?
Turkeypocalypse?
Turkeygeddon?
Turkeycaust?
Today I'm thankful I'm not a turkey 
Happy thanksgiving to you and CP though!
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Sander Rossel wrote: Isn't it like the anti-turkey day?
I guess that in the Soapbox, threads about "Turkey" would not have been about the bird.
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Happy Thanksgiving, Chris. I cannot for the life of me understand how pumpkin pie wouldn't be part of it, but you do you!
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Chris Maunder wrote: poutine
What you get depends on where you get them. Most people think poutine is french fries with gravy and cheese tcurds.
Real poutine[^]
But I never wave bye bye
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I would image it's a lot like running a bar, except for the fist fights.
Here's to another 20!
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Chris Maunder wrote: Happy Thanksgiving!
Same to you.
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Chris Maunder wrote: Happy Thanksgiving!
And to you, Chris.
Thank you and the rest of the CP staff for making codeproject.com a nice place to hang my programming hat. The folks here and the articles they freely provide have helped me out more times than I can count. We do appreciate the hard work you, the staff, and the hamsters put in.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Chris Maunder wrote: I just can’t get into
Chris Maunder wrote: Ford F-150’s,
Might I suggest that if you cannot get into a Ford F-150 you lay off the Thanksgiving feast for a while? 
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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So I just spent an hour figuring out why I was getting an exception in my application when using a third party library to communicate to a credit card processing machine. I was getting a general exception back from the third party library, but the test software that comes with the library was working just fine.
Short answer, when I C&P'd my router's public IP address into the dialog box, there was a space at the end of the IP address. Took a while to spot:
"192.168.14.134 "
vs.
"192.168.14.134"
Sigh. OK, so now I make sure to trim the IP address string (the third party library expects a string) and I suppose I should do some regex validation.
Still, why couldn't I get back an exception like "malformed IP address"? Why is the library so sensitive to an space at the end of string? Yes, I take some responsibility, but not all the responsibility!!!
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Yeah, now try other (valid) variants and see what their code does with them.
Edit:
A .net method/property which takes an IP address as a parameter should take a System.Net.IPAddress rather than a string.
modified 14-Oct-19 23:20pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: when I C&P'd my router's public IP address into the dialog box
Copy & Paste, indeed! I expect more from you. You should be typing more.
Trim()
Seriously though...it seems really odd (terrible) that they didn't at least do a String.Trim() on the incoming string since it is such a freebie in almost every language (java, C#, javascript). Many more languages have it of course, but it is just named something slightly different.
I never trust user input because I used to do a lot of testing and open input boxes are the best way to break a program.
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raddevus wrote: ...open input boxes are the best way to break a program.
Indeed.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Yep, Little Bobby Tables. The newest on this one is real -- the guy who chose NULL for his license plate:
How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell | WIRED[^]
Summary, every time a cop didn't have the license plate for the ticket a NULL got entered into the database for the license plate. That meant all ticket fines got assigned to the owner with the license plate of NULL. 
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In another jurisdiction, "NO PLATE" had the same effect.
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