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BTW as I just noticed, congratulations in advance for your 100000 rep, just in case I miss it.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Wow, thanks, even if I am not far even by next month
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We can massively downvote him and try again
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LOL
Be my guest, I think that has been tried before with little success...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: with little success I don't know how OG does it.
1. Login to CP.
2. ???
3. Upvotes.
He should write a book about it "Get rep quick!" the new CP Times best seller!
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I know! He works very hard in Q&A for it.
What I don't understand is how he gets the time. He's self employed. Now exactly which client is willing to pay him for spending all his working hours on CP?
Apart from that, it's quite a feat. It's not easy gaining points in Q&A either. It's not enough that you write an answer (correct or not, doesn't matter) - if you don't supply a working code solution, you WILL be downvoted there!
I don't go there much myself, because I find it too frustrating that even the suggestions given in the most helpful spirit stands a big chance of being downvoted. To quote the famous philosopher Lily Allen: "It's not fair!"
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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And then of course there's his arch nemesis[^] in getting QA points
Johnny J. wrote: the most helpful spirit stands a big chance of being downvoted Or not getting an upvote because someone posted a link to Google instead
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Johnny J. wrote: I don't understand is how he gets the time.
You got me, I'm an unemployed loser living off Herself's meager income and bumming off the state...
I don't really try to get points - I try to give good answers to good questions, and "gentle slaps" to lazy questions.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sander Rossel wrote: I don't know how OG does it.
There is another aspect to it, come to think about it: He's likable - to people and sheep alike!
Some people earn upvotes by being unlikable - normally because they say the stuff that everybody WANTS to say but are too timid to actually say... 99% of THOSE people hang out here in the Lounge and The Soapbox... They wouldn't be caught dead in Q&A whre you can be downvoted for real!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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I can't be bothered tracking my own points. Why would I want to stalk another users points?
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man-crush ?!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Isn't that known as a "Bromance" these days?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Possibly. It were known as "shirt-lifting bum bandits"(1) when I were a lad(2)
(1) Not politically correct, these days, I'm sure, but it's a fact nonetheless
(2) apparently I came from 'up north'
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What do points make? Prizes!
Oh, no, that's somewhere else.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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A bit of futility has never harmed anyone.
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I can't even count that high.
I think eight comes next, but I'm not sure.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Helping you improve your English - not being a pedant...
And there was no rejoicing.
** People from 'up North'* might say 'there were no rejoicing" but they're wrong.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Want to know where the people who are self-proclaimed not pedantic, but still correct other peoples spelling and telling them they're wrong come from...?
I can give a hint, Pete doesn't live there
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Are you suggesting "darn sarf"?
I certainly don't come from darn sarf, me old mucker!
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Thanks !
"y" was indeed a mistake. I was almost 100% positive it was "were" though. My bad.[^]
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Never fear. I'm close, but don't hold your breath.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Here's something I jut discovered that I had completely forgotten about!
back in my youth, I wrote for various computer magazines under a different name (long story!)
Anyhoo - one month for a magazine I reviewed all of the available Doom map editors (AKA WAD editors, after the .wad file suffix for maps)
And I published the wad I created.
And I had completely and utterly forgotten about it.
Then, looking for something entirely unrelated - I found you can still find it on the interwebs[^]!
Now I'm going to be scouring them webs for more stuff what I did!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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link blocked by IT police
I know that feeling : I used to (modestly) belong to the demo scene and made music using a tracker[^] when I was young. Some of the tunes I made are still available on the Interweb...
[edit] looks like markdown and wiki links are not compatible
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OMG! I'd forgotten about trackers! I even wrote a player for one at one point!
E experimented with 'reversing' the wave as it played, on one channel (so the waveform was reflected about the x axis) so it didn't play backwards, but the 'polarity' was reversed.
Gave a fantastic 3d sound effect if you reversed just one channel.
I'm guessing that's how 2-speaker surround works! i should've kept it up!
Also (and this is something I'm not sure many people know!)
If you look at a side-scrolling game, with a bit of parallax going on, and cover one eye with sunglasses (I took a sunglass lens and used it 'monocle-style) there's a great 3D visual effect.
I had dreams of combining the two - but I was reviewing freeware games and utilities at the time, so having far too much fun playing with other people's toys
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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