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Here, we call those "fun bags."
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Yes, but then it wouldn't have been a punchline in the subject, would it? See, she was hit by a car, cars have airbags, and she was topless - so it's like a lay on words.
Here, we call those "jokes"
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_Maxxx_ wrote: a lay on words
Here we call that a typo!! 
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More like a Freudian slip ...
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Here we call it a Freudian slip 
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Yes, but then it wouldn't have been a punchline in the subject, would it? See, she was hit by a car, cars have airbags, and she was topless - so it's like a lay on words.
Here, we call those "jokes"
Leckey is a part-time stand-up comic. So I am sure you don't need to define "jokes" to her
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Nish, sorry for the delay in the response, and thank you for props!
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Wouldn't that depend on the size?
*ducks*
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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Invercargill? Isn't that Burt Munro's hometown? "World's Fastest Indian"
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I got an email from someone today saying that he works for a large company (which was not named). He said that the company is using some code I've written in one of their apps, code that's available here at Code Project. I don't have a problem with this in that that code I've released here can be used by anyone for anything without any compensation or even credit.
However, he went on to say that the source code was changed - the license (MIT) was removed as well as my name. When he investigated who had authored the code, he got several stories. One, that it was given to the team lead by a friend and another that the team lead wrote it himself. But he has no doubt that it's my code.
Anyway, there's not a lot I can do about this. But it makes me wonder... perhaps there are lots of devs out there downloading code from Code Project and passing it off as their own to their manager. This possibility may seem obvious to most of you, but I hadn't considered it before. I'm more than happy for my code to be of use to companies big and small, but for someone else to take credit for it... that's a bit much.
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I don't care if someone else takes credit for my code from their manager, it does not and will not impact on me. I work for corporates and therefore unless the dev is in my team (in which case they need to go through me to get the brownie points) there is no issue.
If I use another devs code, which I do regularly I include a link to the article in the comments. There is no better support document than SOMEONE ELSES article.
The idea that I may be missing out on cudos/income because someone is claiming/selling my code is pretty irrelevant, I can't sell the bloody stuff so good luck to them. If it is such a huge issue then you don't publish. There are some utilities that I won't publish for this reason.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I'm afraid that in the current climate, this does not surprise me at all, and I don't see how there's anything that can be done except to accept it for what it is.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I'm sure it happens all the time. And not just by Chinese consultants making Twitter knock-offs for Microsoft...
Actually, I remember one consultant project that came back written to use a custom list control class. Not the custom list control class I wrote and used throughout the rest of the app, a brand-new one. A brand-new one that just happened to be strikingly similar to an old release of Hans Dietrich's XListCtrl. Of course, all of the comments were gone, replaced with the consulting company's initials.
I was not happy.
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I'm surprised you're surprised!
Personally, when I steal use code from CP (or anywhere else) I leave at least a comment with a link to the URL - this is for me as much as the author - when I can't figure out what it's doing when I come back to it later (in some cases about 10 minutes later, but then I'm getting old) I can go read any accompanying article, and maybe see an update.
Mostly I re-write stuff I get anyway - it's rare that something is an exact match to my requirements, meets naming conventions etc., so I tend to take the idea and snippets of code, and create my own class (or whatever) with a comment something like "Based on an idea by L Sanford http://codeproject.com/SomeArticleUrl".
If people choose to use code wholesale, without credit, then your only hope is that you stuffed up something that they will get blamed for - or that a change will be requested by their manager which they will be incapable of doing because they don't understand how it works.
And, frankly, I've found that non-technical managers are just as impressed if you tell them you found some code on the interwebs as if you wrote it yourself, so the code-thief gains little anyway.
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I've seen that happen all too often. Especially the removal of license, copyright, and any other indication of who wrote the original code.
Ironically, it happened to me once. Some of my MyXaml code ended up in the codebase of a company trying to write a XAML parser. The reason I found it was because they ended up hiring me as a contractor and I discovered my own code, license, copyright, and authorship removed. How did I know it was my code? Well, a comment I put in my code, crediting leppie for something he helped me with, was left in!!!
Marc
Will work for food.Interacx
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Well did you demand compensation?
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Marc Clifton wrote: The reason I found it was because they ended up hiring me as a contractor and I discovered my own code, license, copyright, and authorship removed.
You can't stop the story there...
3x12=36
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1x12=12
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But is it good code?
At one former employer (late 90s) we were forced to use SQL Server (6) and ODBC after using Oracle/PRO*C for many years. Because no one in the company knew anything about ODBC the company hired a "consultant" and gave him two days to provide a library of routines (C/C++) we could use.
The result was a puddle of code that was apparently just the demo code from the disc included with a book.
It was awful. I did what I could to improve it, but it really needed to be thrown out.
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One of the reasons to keep the code to yourself. More free code = less qualified individuals.
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Watched an episode of Red Dwarf - Back To Earth last night (on the PS3 via iView - which was cool)
But it was crap.
:(
You UK chaps probably saw it months ago - what did you think? It seemed, to me, to be almost amateurish in the acting, with a slow pace and little atmosphere. There was no laughter track (THANK YOU DAVE TV) but it needed something.
Maybe a chicken vindaloo.
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It was crap; a real cop out. The problem is - it was too late. The cast got old and fat, and just couldn't carry it off any more. It was a sad thing to see, especially as they didn't address how Rimmer got away from Death after kicking him in the old pubic bone at the end of the last series.
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I was surprised they didn't make Kryten look old and wrinkly!
'twere up to me I think I would have scripted it so that they were all old and decrepit - maybe looking back - then their geriatricallity wouldn't have detracted quite so much!
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Cast aside, it was the script and story that really sucked. And I mean Dyson sucked. Any "good" script writer with no budget could have come up with a better story than that. Corrie references? Cop out that this was the anti-despair creature? For the love of all that is pure and Holly(sic), I cold have done better.
So in conclusion, complete crap of the worst order.
modified on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:04 PM
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The last season or two really sucked. I wouldn't even sully the memory by viewing something new.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I sure wish I hadn't!
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