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Well, I ain't a'gonna be making no effort in answerin' a one of 'em; that's darn tootin'!
Know your enemy!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Well, I ain't a'gonna be making no effort in answerin' a one of 'em; that's darn tootin'!
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Sometimes I know the solution but I do not have 50 points to be allowed to answer. Chicken, egg, Rooster problem
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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digimanus wrote: Sometimes I know the solution but I do not have 50 points to be allowed to answer.
Interesting that they shoot themselves in the foot with that one.
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"Unanswered" is a bit of a misnomer as some have been "de-answered".
Take a look at the top one on the list, for example - it's protected due to answers having to be removed. Whether that's an OP not accepting one or an overzealous mod or a genuine case of all the answers being totally unhelpful, we will never know.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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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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