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The key word there was almost.
As OG noted below, there's been a spate of resurrected accounts. If I had really thought this was spam, I would have flagged it. It's more of a hint that this kind of activity has been suspicious with other users.
This space for rent
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I've met Tomas a few times at the MVP summits, and he now works for Microsoft. I actually encouraged him to post this thread here, when he posted in the older thread from 2 years ago. And it's a free online video conference. It's not as if he's advertising a paid service. But I can see how it could be mistaken for spam by people who are not familiar with him.
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Sorry. If this kind of post is not welcome here, please let me know and I'll delete it, or delete it yourself.
I was only posting this, because the previous instance of the conference was advertised here by the administrators, so I assumed it is fine. I would not, of course, post this if it was not a free community event.
As for "what's stopping me from being an active member now"? Mostly things like work, family and open-source which all takes more of my time than it did 9 years ago, but is it really that surprising that people's preferences for how to spend their time change in a decade? I had a good time here when I was active, but I did not expect that leaving CodeProject for some time will get you this sort of treatment when you come back hoping to share something that you're doing which might be of interest.
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Calm down - we've had a possible problem recently with account hijacks turning them into spam generators, and your rep graph plus a "spammy" looking first-post-in-ages does look typical of an "dead" account being zombified. You would not believe the amount of spam we get from time to time! 
Your account hasn't been raised as a spammer (we have a forum for just that) so your account it unlikely to be closed, and the post should be OK.
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Thanks for the clarification, all good then  . I can confirm my account is not a zombie! If this extra context was in the original comment, it would have been a lot easier for me to understand why people approach it with caution.
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You still working in the F# team?
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As developers we often look at software and start reverse engineering it in our heads. There's plenty of stuff that might deeply impress us but we can figure out roughly how it does what it does even if we wouldn't be confident in writing it ourselves.
Sometimes, though, you see something and think "Blimey! I wouldn't have come up with that in a million years. That's not code, that's sorcery!"
For me, the Great Amazer has always been Shazam - yes, it's been around for years and I've read a fair old bit about the central fingerprinting algorithm (much of which has passed over my head) but it still absolutely blows me away. As Ozymandias put it: "look upon my works ye mighty and despair!"
What does it for you?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Thanks for making me discover The Old New Thing.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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So it was an old new thing to you too? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Trouble is that most of the time you end up looking at something and going "Oh, fer ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) s sake! Why?" rather than "Wow!" 
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Very true, but doesn't that make the good stuff all the better?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Parking machines in hospital car parks are the example that springs to mind why do the option to change to German (& only German) appear in the 'Do You Want A Reciept sub menu', were the testers not involved or has a quick mod unearthed a whole? 
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I wouldn't know about that - parking fees at hospitals in Wales and Scotland were banned ten years ago.
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and if you switch to German while pressing a button, there is an option, in German, that says "rebate my parking fee."
There are probably "unlocks" on the meters for testing purposes like most games have:
up, down, down, left, right -> install mock for credit card payment interface that always "accepts" payment
up, down, down, left, left -> install mock for credit card payment interface that always "declines" payment
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Long ago: Elite[^]
Or how about 3D fractal landscapes - on a 1.7 MHz 6502? Atari XL/XE - Rescue on Fractalus[^]. I think there could still be something to learn from reverse engineering the graphics routines.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith's Elite is good, but ... DOOM was better! Now, that was a "Wow!" moment. The first time you entered Level 2 and the lights started to dim, and flicker at you ... then a monster strolls round the corner in the dark ...
Phenomenal bit of software!
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You want the horror feeling back? Play "Welcome to the Game", it makes you whoops your pants
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Thanks, but I'll give it a miss.
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Good idea, i regretted it 
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature))
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + _signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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At that time I still had fun with a real rifle, real ammo, ears ringing from the noise, the smell of the powder, real sand between the teeth and at every time of day, from high noon to pitch black night.
Doom was boring against that.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Alot things are, also safer, I'm not anti-gun, it's just idiots with guns worry me!
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Is that how you thank us for having made sure day and night that you never had to wake up one morning to discover that you had become a communist over night? 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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He's a Bristiolian - they are already communists according to No 10...
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