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C'mon, why not just call them out?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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If you really want to, it's not hard to find; it's on the first page of QA at the moment.
EDIT: Except the answer has now gone. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Having been a member for more than 8 years not a programmer makes. Might be someone who opened a book for the first time, and never got around to opening it again until his first post.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You don't have to be a programmer to see the irony in posting that comment as a "solution".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I was just digging through some of the HTML/CSS from dotnet blogengine and found this:
p { }
.rating { margin-bottom: 10px; }
.rating p { display: inline; position: relative; top: 14px; left: 55px; }
.star-rating { position: relative; width: 125px; height: 25px; overflow: hidden; list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-position:
So the dev added a empty p{} element and then the comment.
This is not tech question but just an interesting archaeological dig.
Isn't that weird? I've never seen it before.
Is this something from a bygone era of CSS / old browsers?
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Just to qualify this post, I've been using CSS a fair amount since the late 90s... so assuming there's no preprocessor being used then there is no reason under the sun for doing that. Browser specific hacks typically have an override of sorts. Doing something like...
p { }Does absolutely nothing. Which was probably their way of trying to start that CSS block / file without a comment. Because it does nothing.
And I've never had trouble starting CSS blocks and files with comments. Maybe he/she ran into something, but after 20 years of it I never saw that. Even text based browsers like lynx just ignore CSS. So I can't in recent memory ever think of this issue being a thing.
I'd wager it's a case of a little bit of knowledge being dangerous sorta situation. As in just enough to sound smart, but not knowing enough to actually be smart.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: o assuming there's no preprocessor being used then there is no reason under the sun for doing that.
Thanks for confirming that.
That's exactly what I thought after a bit of googling.
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So now I'm curious, after doing some recon about BlogEngine.NET... I ended up on github since the Codeplex site is going down. This is the closest file I could find on github to the star rating snippet...
https://github.com/rxtur/BlogEngine.NET/blob/master/BlogEngine/BlogEngine.NET/Content/star-rating.css[^]
Is this is the right file? Are you looking at an older version of the code? Since it's a reusable blog engine, I'm curious to see if there was a legit reason for your snippet. I can't think of one. Assuming it's the same file, the comments are gone. I couldn't find any LESS files outside of the toastr one either, so I assume it's not preprocessed.
So, am I looking at the right code?
Jeremy Falcon
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I found it in Global.css under the dotnet blogengine theme:
Content/Auto/Global.css
It may be a generated file and it just screwed up or something.
I just thought it was odd too. Thanks for chiming in on this. 
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raddevus wrote: Thanks for chiming in on this.
Any time man. After looking at again, about the best thing I can think of is maybe, maybe there's some weird doxygen type app out there that bombs if you start a file with a comment. Never saw anyone use brackets in their comments in CSS like...
And when I see special comments I think doxygen et al. Of course, nobody generates documentation for stylesheets, so I don't really think that's the reason. I'm just reaching deep trying to give the benefit of the doubt here.
Jeremy Falcon
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I recently travelled back from China to the UK.
The 4 hour internal flight in China, followed by 13 hour flight to Amsterdam went smoothly with good service.
At Amsterdam I found KLM had cancelled my flight back to Birmingham (UK). After much chasing round and being bounced from one agent to another I found they had rebooked me on another airline via Frankfurt. The Frankfurt was delayed so I missed the connection to BHX and had more hassle to get another flight.
I knew that I should complain to KLM and ask for compensation for the cancelled flight but didn't fancy the hassle and didn't expect it to be easy or productive. I asked my assistant to chase it up for me. She emailed them with the details and after just a few days I got an email of apology with a voucher for a substantial amount of money, just like that!
Now I have to decide how to spend the money ... but my wife will make that easy as well! 
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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And you had to tell your wife ? 
I'd rather be phishing!
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So a few days ago, a total stranger rings our door bell. He has some sob story, saying that his girl friend has his credit card and for some reason he could not get cash out of his bank account and he has to drive to another city some 100 miles away. Could I help him with the necessary cash to buy gas (petrol).
When confronted by a total stranger whose credit cards are likely maxed out and who has no cash in the bank, and who desperately needs cash, a "likely drug user" flag goes off in my head. So I declined to help him.
What would your reaction be? Would you hand him cash, knowing that you can probably kiss it goodbye?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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If I had a fuel station near, I would have gone with him and payed the fuel he would tank.
I do the same with people asking for food (note: food, not money to buy food). If someone tells me "I am hungry, would you mind to buy me something to eat?". I do it in 99% of the times (once I had myself no cash with me, so I couldn't).
If they ask for money... then I usually don't give it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Quote: I would have gone with him
Trust him enough to go with him? No sirree!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I would've driven in my car and met him there...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Did you read the "near"... I would just meet him at the gas station.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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A cold knock on the door? Probably not.
I have been asked by people when fueling my vehicle if I could help, and, at time I have - I've put in a few gallons, enough to get them home or to a major city.
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Move the thread to the soapbox, and I'll tell you what I'd say to him... 
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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Him? No. There's just something about that, that puts me off.
Have I given cash to people knowing I wouldn't get it back? People who might be using it to buy drugs, but who have told me they are hungry and just want something to eat? Yes I have and I will do so again. Why? I have been lucky in life. Very lucky. I am well aware that others aren't so blessed so if I can do something, anything, to, even for a moment, bring some happiness into another persons life, then that makes me happy.
Does this make me a liberal? Possibly. Do I care? Nope.
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Does this make me a liberal?
No. It makes you a super sensitive man. Is that a bad thing? who knows.  Do you still care? Probably not.
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If they honestly tell me it is for drugs... then I give it too.
What I don't like is being fooled.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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To be fair, no one has ever told me they need the money for drugs.
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Once: "I need money for drugs before I get my abstinence syndrom and things get ugly for me, I don't want to rob anyone"
Other: "Hey, do you have any cash? I could tell you it is for whatever, but the truth is that I want it to buy me something to drink"
and a couple of times more...
My answer to all was something like "You could have lied to me but didn't. That's something I respect. Here you have" and gave them what I had on that moment.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Much respect from myself. Much respect.
I have a weak spot around drug abuse. A girl I knew years ago, oh, she was a lovely girl; came from one of the nicest Irish families you'll ever meet. She got into drugs and we lost touch. A couple of years later, I bumped into her and she was telling me about how she was turning her life around. She was back in contact with her family and she did look like things were turning around. A week later, she was found dead in her flat. Thinking about this, 30 years later, it's still hard. I still keep in touch with her sister and brother.
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