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Clifford Nelson wrote: Have you watched the movie Catch 22?
No, but I've read the book.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That's probably much better.
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Had a similar problem with WikiQuotes.
I posted a few clever (in my and importantly, anyone else who's heard them) quotes. They were promptly removed because they didn't think the source (me) was famous enough. Same moronic catch-22 mentality. You can post quotes unless you're known and you won't get known unless you can post your quotes. The way it was said, moreover, spelled out "arrogant a**hole".*
The parallel seems to span many fields - the ones making the decisions, lacking any native ability of their own, need to make sure no one outshines their dull mental squalor.
* we should be grateful, indeed, that Chris looks down from his lofty perch, just shakes his head, and lets the hamster continue turning their wheels.
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Repost![^] But a worthy one! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes I know, Just added different information. I love that can post answer but not a comment. Seems rather stupid.
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Clifford Nelson wrote: Seems rather stupid.
Indeed it does.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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It may have some weird rules around it, but whenever I search for how to do something, that site is always at the top of the list. 
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: but whenever I search for how to do something, that site is always at the top of the list.
That's because you keep clicking on them. Most of the search engines remember which sites you clicked on and rank those sites higher for your next search.
I've noticed lately that SO has been slipping down my search results page and MDN has been creeping up the rankings, and I've been asking questions about old-school javascript, so it's not like the info on one site or the other is changing in any significant way (Initializing an array in JS hasn't changed much for the past 147 years). It's because I'm purposely avoiding SO and favoring MDN these days for my JS needs.
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Vark111 wrote: That's because you keep clicking on them.
Now, that's true. And it's true because they were always at the top with the right answer.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Vark111 wrote: MDN
Wha dat?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Thanks.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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There is a simple way to prevent that. You can add "-site:stackoverflow.com" to your search terms and any results from that site will not be displayed.
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Rick York wrote: and any results from that site will not be displayed.
I think you may be missing the point. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That's really the problem with any system where reputation points are used to dictate what you can or cannot do in a public forum. Their goal is to get you to post regularly and they simply don't give a damn if you have decades worth of experience dealing with something being asked--they only care if you start contributing regularly. Only then do you become valuable to them.
In the end, one-off answers are discouraged because of it and I'm sure SO is poorer because of it.
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Then there are the excellent answers flagged as "unproductive".
Or the excellent questions which result in a massive argument, no points of which come close to answering the question one way or another. (Just ran across one of those--everyone was arguing about how the person phrased the question, even though it was blindingly oblivious what was being asked. The annoying part is that I needed the actual answer.)
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That is because people get points for flagging things. So they will do almost anything to get their internet points!
Hogan
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My gosh!
I have been "dismembered" (I guess that's the wrong word for it  ) twice from SO because my questions were too vague. I agree that they might have been not entirely clear, but then again: Why on Earth would I post questions if I knew exactly what I was looking for? Most of such times, it would be my obligation to first look for answers using Google searches or so.
Working as a lecturer in programming (thus probably not asking really off-topic questions) I felt that there must be nicer forums, and that's why I joined CodeProject a few years ago. So: thanks for your kindness, whoever who is reading this.
A few weeks ago I re-joined SO as I wanted to get in touch with a poster and send him a message. Then I realized that one cannot send private messages on SO. ...so I ended up looking him up on Google and sent an email to his workplace instead.
(Of course, many people have positive experiences from SO - these are just my own impressions.)
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That's nothing. I heard that some really weird people like to make up puns in the afternoons.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Sad to say, on a much smaller scale, I used to make 'percussion caps' with potassium chlorate and sulfur. If hit really really hard it explodes with an amazing noise for a small amount.
Some of the mixture, the size of a green-pea, wrapped in aluminum foil to hold it together, was close in volume to a cherry-bomb.
Unfortunately, . . .
My right ear (hand I held the hammer in) has shown the (permanent) price one pays for such load noises repeated so often and so near. Not terrible, but high frequency loss is such that I couldn't hear a watch tick (when they used to tick) right up next to my ear on that side. Lesson learned: loud sounds really do cause hearing loss.
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WHAT?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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FAT? Who you callin' FAT?
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I used to do the same with the heads shaved of matches. I once found some used .22 shell casings, filled these with match shavings and crimped over the top. Dropping a brick on them made a very big bang, and I once managed to shoot myself in the leg with the casing. A large bruise, but no penetration.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Ah - you missed the real fun:
Empty CO2 cartridges ->
Drill Out Neck ->
fill with Calcium Hypochlorite/Sulfur mixture and short piece of fuse. ->
Slide down pipe with back capped with reducing union so fuse stick out ->
Light fuse -> Almost silently, the little steel rocket shot forward.
That thing could split a brick in half and keep going. Once in a while, if reused a few times, they blew up. Lucky the pipe kept the pieces from flying.
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