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The spot challenge for stage 2 of the Azure challenge has been posted[^].
Remember: if you missed out on completing challenge 1 you can still enter and be in the running for the remaining challenges.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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1. The lounge is for the CodeProject community to discuss things of interest to the community, and as a place for the whole community to participate. It is, first and foremost, a respectful meeting and discussion area for those wishing to discuss the life of a Software developer.
The #1 rule is: Be respectful of others, of the site, and of the community as a whole.
2. Technical discussions are welcome, but if you need specific programming question answered please use Quick Answers[^], or to discussion your programming problem in depth use the programming forums[^]. We encourage technical discussion, but this is a general discussion forum, not a programming Q&A forum. Posts will be moved or deleted if they fit better elsewhere.
3. No sys-admin, networking, "how do I setup XYZ" questions. For those use the SysAdmin[^] or Hardware and Devices[^] forums.
4. No politics (including enviro-politics[^]), no sex, no religion. This is a community for software development. There are plenty of other sites that are far more appropriate for these discussions. Or if you must, use the Back Room[^] - but enter at your own risk.
5. Nothing Not Safe For Work, nothing you would not want your wife/husband, your girlfriend/boyfriend, your mother or your kid sister seeing on your screen. For those discussions where you wish to be a little more frank, use the Soapbox[^]
6. Any personal attacks, any spam, any advertising, any trolling, or any abuse of the rules will result in your account being removed.
7. Not everyone's first language is English. Be understanding.
Please respect the community and respect each other. We are of many cultures so remember that. Don't assume others understand you are joking, don't belittle anyone for taking offense or being thin skinned.
We are a community for software developers. Leave the egos at the door.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE
This is lolcode... ever wondered the watermark in ignore tags in questions page??
This is a sample lol program... LOL!
Now this is Brainfuck!
++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++
..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>.
Brainfuck is designed for extreme minimalism and leads to obfuscated code, with programs containing only 8 distinct characters. e.g. the preceeding program outputs "Hello World".
Some more at wikipedia[^]
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I just got my first iPad today.
I code in Microsoft Visual Studio, use Microsoft SQL Server, own a Microsoft Windows Phone, have Microsoft Windows Server on my server, and run Microsoft Windows on my PC's and laptops.
So getting an iPad is a whole new experience for me.
I want to write apps. I'm a C# guy. What are the tools I need to write apps for my shiny new iPad?
Thanks
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Why is the IT world so subject to trends and whether something is "hot" or not?
I mean, it's supposed to be Computer Science, not Computer Fashion, right?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Urgens[^]
Romano-Sumerian families.
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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Khan is a Jedi?
I had this thought when they first came across him in the new movie. Think about it, the weird properties of his blood, his fighting skills, his people are from a long time ago, etc.
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we have learning goals at work. I read "Code Complete" for this last one (everyone has to read it in their first year here). I'm moving on to Clean Code now, and looking at Pragmatic Programmer coming up.
If it moves, compile it
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Nicholas Winton[^].
A great man, all the more so because he is completely self-effacing and quite funny and amazing for 104!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Is Quora the new Google?
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Finally got to go see Star Trek last night. Really enjoyed it though it did seem like it was just a filler episode with too many 'clever' references to the original films/episodes. Methinks the scriptwriters were a touch lazy. Still, jolly good fun and Cumberbatch, whilst totally miscast as Khan, did play the part well with Simon Pegg getting some good screen time.
Actually, Mickey[^] would have been far better and more believable as Khan.
Just my tuppence worth.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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... to stop the insanity!
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Plz, send codez for 'caulk warmer'
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Plz Help. Very short timeframe and urgently needs help with project. Does duck tape work in very cold and very thin air?
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I've been sat on a plane at Manchester airport for around 40 minutes now, watching Bodger and Badger go up and down in a little crane and fiddling away with the wing.
They've opened boxes, looked at sheets of paper, sent for a bigger hammer and a new roll of duct tape.
If this plane ever does get off the ground I don't fancy its chances of stopping there.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I noticed the code project frame which used to encapsulate the news is gone.
I hated that thing, very happy it's gone. 
Amr Abdel Majeed
Software Developer
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I've been trying with varying success for a couple of hours to download a 6GB installer. I never knew downloading such huge files was a massive pain in the arse!
First I was on Windows, Chrome occasionally would just keep pausing the downloads meaning I couldn't leave it running, FF got to about 4.1 GB and then gave up without even an error. Tried to download a download manager, but it was an infected installer.
Gave up looking for Windows based download managers and booted Linux, found one called "FlareGet" which downloads a file in segments supposedly decreasing time it takes to download files. Paused it for all of 10 seconds so I could let the buffering on a Youtube video I was watching catch up, un-paused the file downloading and it started all over again, even though it had just got to 48% before I paused it! 
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When asked "what do you think" after your wife has a new hair cut, "a bit lesbiany" is apparently not an acceptable response.
Marriage advice there.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Today, Yahoo's 'Today' feature included an article entitled "There's no wishing away Mental Illness"
That should relieve so many Lounge Languishers.
As for myself? Henceforth I will now simply smile and drool.
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Did you know you are platinum across the board now[^].
On a separate, but related note 1000000 and 1,000,000 are both quicker to type than 1x10^6. 
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
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Griff is only 700 measly author point away from being 100% platinum. Let's help him out, it looks really pathetic on his profile with the one gold rep... 
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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"Hazard the Spanish graze at the edges and consume the giant armpit?"(10)
So easy it will take no time at all.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
CCC Link[ ^]
Can you Help?
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Cicada Invasion[^]
I have a massive loathing of insects, a phobia that came about as result of seeing an episode of Doctor Who back in 1972 entitled 'The Green Death'.
It was about pollution causing mutations in insect life resulting in giant maggots and huge dragonflies etc.
Nevermind the fact that the science was bollox (there is a maximum size for insects due to the manner in which they take in oxygen and they physical construction of their bodies), it was more to do with the fact that I was 5 and frightened shitless.
Still, the result is that for me to be stuck in a place where billions of large aggressive looking, (although utterly harmless) crickets appear at the same time, being crunched underfoot, flying into my face and generally causing me distress would be my idea of the 9th level of hell, I am glad I am staying well away!
Good luck to those of you about to suffer from it.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
CCC Link[ ^]
Can you Help?
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http://xkcd.com/1214/[^]
It's about this: http://geoguessr.com/[^] which is definatly the Time Waster OTD.
My first try: 14714.357km out.
My best try: 0.019km out, for a score of 6478 points. 19 metres, suckers![^]
[edit]Best: 0.002km! 6479 points, 2 metres away![/edit]
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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Not really. But Man of Tai Chi kind of seems like it, what with the focus on martial arts, starring Keanu Reeves, and being directed by Keanu Reeves. Sadly, however, the plot doesn't seem quite as interesting as The Matrix.
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Got this :
LUFTHANSA LOTTO CELEBRATION
LOTTERY DISTRIBUTION CARETAKER
ASIA CENTRAL CONTROLLER
CHINA CENTER
Ref-HUF/EDC/WB-8456B
Batch: YHGB0934/2/01
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
ITS WITH PLEASURE THAT WE INFORM YOU OF YOUR WINNING IN THE ONGOING 2013
LUFTHANSA LOTTERY PROMOTION
YOUR SERIAL NUMBER IS SN/6702293453388, TICKET NUMBER D3B673-679-22.
AS A WINNER IN THE CATEGORY A, YOU ARE EXPECTED TO REPLY THIS EMAIL TO THE
LOTTERY CARETAKER WITH THE ABOVE MENTION
TICKET & SERIAL NUMBER.
YOUR WINNING IS VALUED AT FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS
($500.000.00)
YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS PICKED BY THE BALLOT SYSTEM WHICH PUTS YOU AS THE
LUCKY WINNER
THIS IS AS A RESULT OF THE WEBSITES THAT YOU MAY HAVE VISITED WHILE
SURFING THE NET
WE CONGRATULATES YOU AS WE LOOK FORWARD YOUR RESPONSE IN CLAIMING YOUR
WINNING PRICE
FOR CONFIRMATION PLEASE QUOTE THE BELOW INFORMATION .
NAME:...............................................
ADDRESS:............................................
COUNTRY:............................................
PHONE NO.:..........................................
AGE:................................................
OCCUPATION: ........................................
to the LOTTERY CARETAKER-
LUISA ARIEL
LUFTHANSA LOTTERY CENTRAL OFFICE
CARETAKER ASIAN OFFICE
luisa_ariel@consultant.com
luisa_ariel@yahoo.cn
+86-15817709156
When you can afford to redistribute 500k$ to lottery winner you should be able to afford better domain name than : consultant.com or yahoo.cn....
Seulement, dans certains cas, n'est-ce pas, on n'entend guère que ce qu'on désire entendre et ce qui vous arrange le mieux... [^]
Joe never complained of anything but ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart [^]
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Hey friends which music you are listening now ?
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why?
Here is the story :
Today for setting up ns-3,i installed Ubuntu(through wubi) on my dev box ( Win 7 ) and spent all day inside it.
Soon after logging, the problems, started to appear.
1 - I needed to install python
2 - I needed to install TCL.
3 - I needed to install g++ ( for compiling ns-3 )
4- JAVA? No problem! In Win7 also you need to install it.
5- Adobe flash? I just installed it but after opening some tabs, Firefox started to freeze and in a rare time in Linux history (  ) desktop vanished and after some HDD LED work, it logged out and showed me the login dialog!
6 - I needed a notepad++ Linux equivalent. No chance!
7- Process Explorer Equivalent? No chance! ( i found one but it wanted to download 61MB of software !!!! )
8 - Gtalk? Yahoo Messenger? Still no chance! OK. I used Empathy, but it did not authenticated me to my yahoo account! 
9 - Foxit Reader? OK! The only tabbed applications in Linux are web browsers and Terminal window! So, no tabbed pdf viewer you can see there.
10 - I have another monitor attached to my laptop. I needed to assign the dashboard to my own preferred desktop. No Chance!
And the list goes on ....
You know, i think the whole philosophy behind current Linux development is wrong!
why?
Because it has been prepared from a developer's perspective not an ordinary user who just wants to set up his environment and start to work.
Maybe it works for some basic tasks like web surfing or word/image processing, but behind that, you are facing the terrible fact: you have to setup what ever you want by your hand and the most important is learning some scripting language ( python, bash, TCL, etc.).
Ubuntu has tried to fix this problem with its own 'Ubuntu Software Center' and it is an awesome effort, but there is still plenty of work to be done. The user should not search the web for dependencies or libraries needed for certain application to get work.
After all, i think the whole Linux culture should be changed because people out there, are not developer.
Behzad
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"... a novice shooter holds one and takes aim at a target 500 yards away. Normally it takes years of practice to hit something at that distance. But this shooter nails it on the first try." [^]
"The rifle's scope features a sophisticated color graphics display. ... The rifle has a built-in laser range finder, a ballistics computer and a Wi-Fi transmitter to stream live video and audio to a nearby iPad. Every shot is recorded so it can be replayed, or posted to YouTube or Facebook."
Uh-oh.
yours, Bill
“Humans are amphibians: half spirit, half animal; as spirits they belong to the eternal world; as animals they inhabit time. While their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imagination are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy is undulation: repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.” C.S. Lewis
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I've never watched it and you can't avoid it on the news but Britain must now get out of Europe's crime against humanity, namely, the Eurovison song contest. It was embarrassing to watch Britain's entrant, try to sing. To protect her I will not give her name and I will only refer to her as Tonnie Byler.
The bit I saw on the news suggested it might have been a bloke singing dressed up to look Bonnie Tyler, even though it wasn't actually him appearing.
There's been a lot of coverage lately of the in/out membership of the EU. If the politicking plonkers at Westminster want to gauge public reaction they should hold an immediate referendum on the UK remaining in the Eurovision as that'll give an indication of what people think about the EU?
The people and countries that organise the Eurovision are guilty of the most vile acts of sensory deprivation. Waterboarding using "music" must be outlawed.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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:idea:
For the sake of members welfare, I figure there ought to be a some kind of a "regulation-bot" running through forum messages, restricting messages in which the words chosen to be shouted or bolded[^] only annoys the reader actually trying to make sense of it, and getting a cognitive dissonance[^] while at it.
Don't YOU think?
* In the meantime, people, please run your messages through QA, some posts really hurt my eyes.
Never underestimate the difference you can make in the lives of others.
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Or has my account been hacked in a very surreal way?
I got an email this morning with the usual offers "relevant to my search history":
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (with linked TOC) [Kindle Edition]
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Samsung UE22F5400 22-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p Slim Smart LED TV with Built-In Wi-Fi
by Samsung
Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics) [Kindle Edition]
by Aristotle
Draper 65960 Carbon Steel Fork and Trowel Set
by Draper Tools
Eh? I don't read philosophy books, I don't buy small TVs, Aristotle got pretty much all his science completely backwards, and Herself does the gardening.
So why does Amazon think I want this stuff?
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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What's in your mind is the worst exception in programming??
My favourite is Out of Memory!
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Hi friends
How much crazy you are regarding technology ?
Lets discuss and share about our technical skills.
Regards
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Bikash
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Oh yes. Oh yes indeed. Definitely the name of the Doctor, and it doesn't get better than that.
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swapped my C drive for an SSD. wow. fast!
it's got that snappy feel that you get with a new PC... before the gunk slows it down.
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Not being happy with his first try he wants to do something[^] that sends adults behind the sofa and make them wee. Pools of wee.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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I dislike jQuery.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I have a new toy.[^]
Sooner or later I'm also going to need a fuselage. They have some nice ones here.[^] I think everybody and his dog fly around with the Airwolf, so how about a Cobra, a UH-1D or a MI-24 (on the third page)?
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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Our local paper ran a main story about Crawley being officially a "crap" town. In 2004, when it looks like the last official survey was done, Luton finished top of the crap town list. This year, Crawley is likely to feature in the top 50 (I'd say it's appearance is mandatory, rather) and that has caused a bit of a kerfuffle as some Crawleyites are up in arms.
I think the report cited great improvements in the town's infrastructure and other changes that have made life to us who live here, much better. F'that for a game of conkers. I've seen naff all since we moved here in 2000. I don't know when the official list will be published but I suspect the old favourites of Crawley, Hull, Luton, Stevenage to name four will al be vying for the title.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Sky Shite news[^] reports on this unfortunate girl's death drinking methanol.
You, sir, have been warned! 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Things to do, if I win...
1. Buy a trailer that hides a mansion bunker below it.
2. Hire some engineers to create a pair of poindexter google glasses with white tape in the middle.
3. Buy Jolie new breasts.
4. Buy a Munsters car.
5. Buy a big inflatable alien and put it on the CP lawn, looking into the building.
6. Buy a remote controlled shark for the beach, maybe with a laser beam mounted on its head.
7. Hire a fat jockey to ride on orb for triple crown.
8. Buy a nice aged scotch.
9. Give some money to everyone who doesn't ask or want to be my friend.
10. Give some to charity
Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
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Its my favorite day, Saturday and instead of spending the day wearing Pijamas, watching some movies or doing anything fun and relaxing I am at work. Right now i am doing boring stuff like reading xml files and making COLORREF , LOGFONT, LOGPEN and LOGELEPHANTing structures... pure fun.
Could you think of a worst way to spend Saturday?
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We are gearing up for perceptual computing final challenge. This time, we are going Robotics. The project is named Ponta ( That's how my son calls the Robot). It is going to be a complicated robot which will primarily do follwoing
1. Move, Pick and Place objects
2. Follow you
3. Surveillance
4. Watering
5. Playing simple games
6. Greet people.
7. Informs about Temperature, Light Condition, Humidity etc
8. Dance to music tunes.
9. Play music for you
It will operate with Voice command, will recognize persons, can follow persons, work with gestures, hand movement and many other things. Will respond to your emotions.
The "Brain" or Artificial Intelligence is going to be built with Neuro Fuzzy system. It will combine Perceptual Computing SDK, OpenCV, Microsoft Speech SKD. Robot will be mounted over a rover with Ultrabook, Battery pack and sensors all loaded on board.
So it's relays, motors, gears and hell lot of coding. Thought would share with you. I am excited, I am nervous. Its huge but I hope to finish it in a month's coding.
Here is the first update on day three. The voice command with simple prototype.
Ponta: Testing voice commands[^]
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