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Don't ruin my attempt to poke fun of the SO platform. 
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They don't need your help with that!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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So QA's not doing too bad - there's only around 58 thousand unanswered questions there. 
"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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How many of those are "SEND CODEZ!!! URJENT!!! PLEEZ?" ?
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A few times, I tried to get help from the SO community. Every single time, I was met with insults, of the kind "Something similar to this was answered way back in 2003 - what kind of idiot are you that cannot dig up that answer and stop bothering us?"
I guess that a sizable fraction of those five million help seekers have come to the same conclusion than I have: Trying to push something on SO is futile. You can search it to see if anyone has run into exactly the same problem as you have, and received decent help. If not, search somewhere else for an answer.
I'd be curious to know how many unique users are behind those five million questions. But the really interesting question is how many have recieved more or less insulting answers, like me, and then decided that SO is not a place to get help. Software masochists may get some satisfaction there, but I happen not to be in that group.
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Yeah, I agree. SO can be a very bad experience. And, if you can believe it, I've had an even worse time at electronics.stackexchange.com (stackexchange is the parent to SO and the site is related).
At one point I asked a question about voltage ratings on capacitors that I really wanted to know the answer about and they literally deleted my question and it took me a long time to write it up so that it was detailed and meaningful.
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...you find you are finishing sentences like this;
cheers
Chris Maunder
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// why is that a problem?
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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// Send a response back to the caller.
CommManager.Send(new Reply("I have no idea what you're talking about."));
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No exception handling?
That example sends the message to our junior readers that such isn't required.
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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 Quick'n'dirty. Had to run to a meeting.
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(Surely you should end sentences like this]
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No, they should be terminated with ();
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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try
{
Too();
}
catch (Exception yourself)
{
break;
}
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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See my sig.
Software Zen: delete this;
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And, once again, it is demonstrated why COBOL is the superior programming language.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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hehehe
What about
Phyton?
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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I've got colleagues/friends who seriously argues that in ordinary prose, we should stsart enclosing conditions in parentheses, 'If (it is raining), use an umbrella'. It would make the text clearer and less ambiguous, they claim. Seriously.
I counter by pointing out that Pascal didn't require parentheses, yet there was no ambiguiety. But then you have to use a 'then'! my friends argue. To prove their point they dig up a dozen quotes from different prose texts, where recognized authors write sentences of the kind 'If it is raining, use an umbrella'. Which proves that the 'then' is superfluous. Pascal was wrong! Parentheses are far more general that this silly 'then', e.g. you can use the same mechanism for grouping partial conditions as you use for delimiting the full condition.
I am serious: They are serious, insisting on introducing C syntax in prose.
In my younger days, I found it fascinating trying to work out counterarguments to such logic. Now I am so old that I just shake my head in disbelief.
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Time to start using back ticks in prose.
`C U Later`
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I'm all for formally disambiguating language precedence constructs.
I have a recipe and it says "Wash lemon. Zest, then juice half the lemon".
I always think of this statement in terms of the distributive property:
Zest, then juice half the lemon = (Zest, then juice half) the lemon
= Zest the lemon, then juice half the lemon.
But I'm never really sure. Maybe they actually mean:
Zest, then juice half the lemon = (Zest, then juice) half the lemon
= Zest half the lemon, then juice half the lemon.
It does my head in.
That's like the old joke:
Programmer: I’m heading to the store. Any requests?
Spouse: Pick up a loaf a bread. If they have eggs, get a dozen.
Programmer: OK.
An hour later, Programmer returns home with a dozen loaves of bread.
Spouse: Why’d you buy a dozen loaves of bread?
Programmer: They had eggs!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That reminds me of this : boiling potatoes[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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You could always make the switch to VB! (good thing the lounge is safe from downvoting)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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...when every competing concept in my head get jumbled together into a confusing morass;
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