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75% - never studied Latin
One of the wrong answers was only because I second-guessed myself (duh!)
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I asked Siri "Surely it's not going to rain today?"
She said, "It is, and don't call me Shirley".
It appears I forgot to take my phone off Airplane mode.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: It appears I forgot to take my phone off Airplane mode myself off booze mode.
FTFY.
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Explain.
Your post makes no sense at all.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Quote: Your post makes no sense at all.
That's ironic. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: That's ironic
In order for that to happen, Dalek's first post would have to make no sense at all. It only won't make sense for those who don't get the reference. It's justifiable to miss the reference because the movie came out quite a while ago. I'd think anyone older than 45 should have gotten it.
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Correct, I didn't understand his first post.
Older than 45? You're eliminating a big bunch of CP.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: You're eliminating a big bunch of CP.
OK, but the movie Airplane came out in the 70's. Unless you are an old movie buff or older than a certain age you won't get a reference based on that movie. It was a comedy, and you wouldn't even have to go to the movie to get the reference made because it was in the trailers so much the tag line was so worn out that it was obnoxious. I really don't recall the conversation, but co-pilot said something like "Surely you know that...", the pilot replies "Of course I ..., and don't call me Shirley!"
The whole movie was meant to be ridiculous and succeeded. I thought the whole movie was lame and was glad I didn't pay money to see it.
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I do not think they got the joke so tried to come up with one of their own.
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And failed miserably at it.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.
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true !
but i think they payed 
can't imagine another Explanation 
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MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
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MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
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I doubt it..One thing I have noticed is that on SOF, content is highly controlled with less freedom for a new user resulting is less repetition and more organized content.
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So play there game and pay more
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There is a simple solution for that. Search programming answers inside CP side and not Google...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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StackOverflow is explicitly set up around answering questions. That means that page titles are usually close to your query string, and the link you want to click on when you're searching for 'how do I do X' probably is the SO one, which I imagine counts in Google's scoring.
CodeProject is about lengthier articles and discussion, which are more useful for reading around a topic rather than answering a particular question. For example a search for .Net TPL gives Code Project above Stack Overflow.
We do have a Q&A here but it's of a lower quality and with less of a historical volume of good answers than SO's.
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That sounds right but I assume more people are searching for questions that actual content through google. Is there some guideline in place at CP to improve the quality of answers ?
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I tend to look to CP for short tutorials or introductions to various subjects. I usually look to SOF for answers to more detailed questions on using some subject. They both have their places and I'm glad they both exist.
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Yea this is what I had in mind myself. when i think of stackoverflow, i immediately think of questions and answers. However, codeproject has other stuff in addition such as newsletters, discussions, many other community stuff. Perhaps CP could look into it's SEO technology...
Fortēs fortūna adjuvat.
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You are comparing the feeding-frenzy of sharks with the orderly migration of Emperor Penguins.
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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I do walk a little funny when it gets cold outside...  
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Code Project excels at articles. I may be thrown into the deepest level of hell for saying this, but I think CP's Q&A is pretty abysmal. The presentation is terrible in my opinion (and it's currently broken so I can't even point to specific things, but layout and unnecessary information (like who and when taking up huge amounts of horizontal bandwidth, and things like "your filters", "tags", and "top experts" taking up more vast amounts of real estate, and I really don't give a rats arse about how many views a question has had...anyways, you get the idea. And with stackoverflow, its presentation (while also not the greatest) at least isn't screaming at me with big bold blocks of orange and hyper-large fonts.
I realize that CP wants its own branding so one has to go with whatever presentation format makes CP unique, but content-wise, stackoverflow also is so much richer and broader in community support. CP is still too much in the Microsoft camp for me to find it useful for non-Microsoft Q&A, and when it comes to Microsoft-related stuff, stackoverflow still is my first choice. That, and yes, the online MSDN documentation and bloggers, especially when it comes to more arcane things in the Microsoft world like F#.
My 2c.
Marc
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 for honest review. Second link for stackoverflow vs codeproject[^] showed this comment
Similar features were under discussion long before the release of SO, as the CP forums had become clogged with off-topic, poorly-asked questions.
Unfortunately, it doesn't offer any equivalent to the close and delete features of SO, so there's no good way to quickly shut down duplicate questions or questions that are missing necessary information. CP would do well to look to SO for improvements.
And this was in 2009 so I wonder why QA section has not been improved on CP ?
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That's not entirely accurate, members of a certain level (Gold in the right category maybe) can edit and delete questions. I think some of it is a philosophical thing though – here at CP we try to leave things open as much as possible, so you inevitably get junk content, whereas SO is more about preserving the cleanliness and quality of its posted material.
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