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Reading 10,000 thank yous, greats and thnks for the codez, it's not very helpful at all, so i avoid such comments and better upvote the article to reflect i like it or that was really helpful.
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Tetris taught me this. Right disappear while wrongs pile up!
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newton.saber wrote: However, if you do something wrong (write a poor article) we are going to let
you know.
Pretty standard behavior however. People are more likely to complain about anything than they are to compliment.
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I've been ignoring you all, because you've all been making good comments. 
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newton.saber wrote: Just read an article here at CodeProject (I shan't mention which) that was formatted poorly...
I won't EVER hold that against someone posting an article in Code Project. Their formatting tool ROYALLY SUCKS! Spent hours fighting the tool. Including throwing out the whole ball of wax and starting from scratch. I gave up in disgust. I was able to publish an article years ago, it was a pretty poor tool then, but you could get it to somewhat work OK. Either they've designed it to be worse, or I've gotten better at screwing it up.
To criticize seems to be a human condition, especially when the "something" written is just wrong. There seems to be an unending supply of THAT on the web. Another web blog site had an article about the bubble sort. I went Ugh, but said to myself "It's a beginning author rehashing an inefficient process, that has been around forever. Leave the poor sap alone, doesn't have the background to know how bad the process is."
Then I read a comment, praising the routine, how easy it was to understand and how efficient it was.
That, I couldn't leave alone. I wrote a binary sort routine, test data, explained how inefficient the bubble sort was. (Every time you double the number being sorted, you quadruple the time it takes to sort.) I stopped testing the bubble sort at 200000 records because it was consistently quadrupling (or more) the time for double the ints in the array and 200K took 2 minutes 20 seconds to sort. The binary sort was still sorting in sub second times. I stopped it with 150 million ints because I didn't have the memory for 200 million and it sorted 150M in 49+ seconds.
The built-in sort was consistently more than 1.5 times faster than my routine (29+ seconds for 150M). Obviously using the same method for sorting, but with better register control.
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I think you put the finger on a subject on which from time to time I find myself wondering.
I'm lucky enough to seldom draw criticism, but I often see the kind of behaviour you describe, in many different aspects of everyday life.
It seems to me that aggressive people, who therefore will heavily complain for a bad article for example, are simply following the same behavioural pattern as children.
We all know children can often be rather nasty to each other, and that the nastier children are those with some real family problem or similar.
But getting down to the root, isn't it all just lack of self esteem? People who are sure of themselves, REALLY sure sown deep inside, and live a happy life don't feel the need to rain shame on others!
On the other hand, if you're not happy with your life or have low self esteem, you may end up being aggressive as a kind of subconscious form of preemptive defense.
Just my 2 (Euro)cents. 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but not in practice. - Anonymous
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. - B. Bryson
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Quote: had code samples that don't compile
This isn't really any different than half the [printed] technical books out there that people paid for.
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Suppress errors on a function call to an undefined library.  Lesson learned! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Message Closed
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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Leandro Taset wrote: It's sort of funny to actually win over an untamed beast just after
"losing it" a bit about them.
Well said! When the site finally loaded I raised my arms in victory! Cheers!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: How to frustrate a PHP newbie
Make them write PHP?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Been around since 2005 but first time this causual programmer learned about it...
"Let's be honest here, what does a programmer fundamentally do? A programmer moves data from one memory location to another. Over and over. In this respect, a programmer is not unlike a taxi driver. A taxi driver moves people from place to place all day long. The people get dropped off, do their things, and new people get loaded back up to be taken someplace else - except unlike programmers, the things taxi drivers shuffle around all day pay them for the service! Well programmers no longer need to put up with that kind if ingratitude from their data: introducting the Taxi Programming Languge!"
http://web.archive.org/web/20130116204555/bigzaphod.org/taxi/[^]
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JoeSox wrote: Let's be honest here, what does a programmer fundamentally do? A programmer moves data from one memory location to another.
Not comparable to driving a cab; where the driver only needs to focus on the single route, we're orchestrating multiple cabs, hoping that there won't be any collisions.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Have you seen the language that is nothing but punctuation marks?! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm not a taxi driver; I'm Louie, sitting in the cage bossing the taxi drivers (programs) around, collecting money that the drivers earned.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I'm not a taxi driver; I'm Louie
I got that far and the mind supplied "chewing on a banana and banging away on a keyboard".
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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We must be funny taxi drivers, given that we send everything by bus.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...never use magnification when you take the ball out of a trackball to clean the rollers it moves on.
All you will see is the other dirt, and hair, and yuck; and the next thing you will do is dismantle it, clean it properly, and put it back together.
And if you're me, you'll then take it apart again, put the middle button mechanism back together the correct way this time, spot some more rubbish in there under a PCB and clean that, make a note of the microswitch ID's, reassemble it and then order a new pair of switches since one is starting to "bounce" too much. 
Magnifying halo lights: they should be banned. From my desk, anyway... 
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Well, what I learned is:
1. I don't like trackballs
2. I don't like mice with balls
3. Optical mice are much easier to clean. Just blow them. I mean, blow on them.
4. I like mice with tails. Cordless mice, the batteries die right when I need it to work the most.
4b. Except for my laptop, because it has a touchpad so I'm not SOL.
5. Repair? No, that's why I have a spare mouse in its packaging ready to go at a moment's notice.
Marc
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I do - I wouldn't go back to a "normal" rodent. Falling off the mouse mat, moving when you press a button, general PITA... 
I'm with you on wireless though, my keyboard and trackball are both wired. Hate batteries going flat when you need 'em to work.
And I much prefer to repair than replace if I can - I'm probably just mean, but I don't much like built in obsolescence. And so since I can solder PTH (and Herself can solder SMT) I generally try to fix things. Don't always succeed...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Hate batteries going flat when you need 'em to work
Spare batteries? My wireless mouse goes for months on a battery. I keep a couple spares in my laptop bag. I hate lugging any more cable around than I need to.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My wireless mouse also can be a wired mouse - which recharges the batteries in it. I can use it until it becomes unresponsive and then plug in the USB cable and keep using it as a wired mouse until it is recharged.
The only thing is that I just realised I haven't unplugged it for a couple of months now. Who need wireless anyway? My keyboard is connected via USB cable and I don't notice.
I think wireless input devices are like 3D TV. They sound great and amazing until you use them and then they are just normal and boring, or worse, annoying.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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