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Mark_Wallace wrote: To paraphrase my granny: If you can't say something nice, STFU".
I never saw any of my grandparents, but I did have a nephew three months before I was born. 
You would have to paraphrase what you just said to get the common saw used in the US, but at least 50 years ago it was a common saw here in the states too.
We yanks are taught to be rebellious, it's part of our heritage to be proud of. So, of course most kids don't listen to their parents. Then we get mad at them for following their heritage. We make total sense over here, right?
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Blame it on Brits. They invented Tall Poppy Syndrome!!
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"If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it."
I'd guess it's because something done right has been done, finished, completed, works fine, not interesting any more. Something which is wrong needs fixing.
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newton.saber wrote: So, doing something wrong actually allows you to build more community (though it
is constructed upon negativity) than doing something right. Ah, the human
condition. It's a challenge
I tend to read the article and often ignore the comments. I figure most CP authors are savvy enough that they address the comments that have been made in the article long before I get there.
I come here to learn from others that know more than I do. I figure an author has done their best on an article, so if misspelled words, poor grammar and non-compiling code is what their article contains, then that's probably the best they can do and there might not be much I can learn from them.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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patbob wrote: I figure an author has done their best on an article, so if misspelled words, poor grammar and non-compiling code is what their article contains, then that's probably the best they can do and there might not be much I can learn from them
Well, I'll agree with you on the "non-compiling code" part, but a huge segment of the world comes from an area where English isn't the first language. I learned French as a second language in high school. I might attempt to read something written in French, but I wouldn't dare to write a word in it on a board. It takes a kind of courage to attempt something you know you aren't good at, that's something to admire. And what was written has the possibility to show me something I didn't know. I try to go beyond the grammer to see if they have something to teach me.
As long as the article is technically competent, that's great, even if they don't teach me a thing.
Sounds like this particular article would also have not taught me anything, so if I'd read it, I'd have to chalk it up as a waste of time. (A nitch which also holds the best written article when that article doesn't add anything to my knowledge.) I'd guess you could add this as an example of how not to write an article.
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Reading 10,000 thank yous, greats and thnks for the codez, it's not very helpful at all, so i avoid such comments and better upvote the article to reflect i like it or that was really helpful.
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Tetris taught me this. Right disappear while wrongs pile up!
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newton.saber wrote: However, if you do something wrong (write a poor article) we are going to let
you know.
Pretty standard behavior however. People are more likely to complain about anything than they are to compliment.
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I've been ignoring you all, because you've all been making good comments.
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newton.saber wrote: Just read an article here at CodeProject (I shan't mention which) that was formatted poorly...
I won't EVER hold that against someone posting an article in Code Project. Their formatting tool ROYALLY SUCKS! Spent hours fighting the tool. Including throwing out the whole ball of wax and starting from scratch. I gave up in disgust. I was able to publish an article years ago, it was a pretty poor tool then, but you could get it to somewhat work OK. Either they've designed it to be worse, or I've gotten better at screwing it up.
To criticize seems to be a human condition, especially when the "something" written is just wrong. There seems to be an unending supply of THAT on the web. Another web blog site had an article about the bubble sort. I went Ugh, but said to myself "It's a beginning author rehashing an inefficient process, that has been around forever. Leave the poor sap alone, doesn't have the background to know how bad the process is."
Then I read a comment, praising the routine, how easy it was to understand and how efficient it was.
That, I couldn't leave alone. I wrote a binary sort routine, test data, explained how inefficient the bubble sort was. (Every time you double the number being sorted, you quadruple the time it takes to sort.) I stopped testing the bubble sort at 200000 records because it was consistently quadrupling (or more) the time for double the ints in the array and 200K took 2 minutes 20 seconds to sort. The binary sort was still sorting in sub second times. I stopped it with 150 million ints because I didn't have the memory for 200 million and it sorted 150M in 49+ seconds.
The built-in sort was consistently more than 1.5 times faster than my routine (29+ seconds for 150M). Obviously using the same method for sorting, but with better register control.
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I think you put the finger on a subject on which from time to time I find myself wondering.
I'm lucky enough to seldom draw criticism, but I often see the kind of behaviour you describe, in many different aspects of everyday life.
It seems to me that aggressive people, who therefore will heavily complain for a bad article for example, are simply following the same behavioural pattern as children.
We all know children can often be rather nasty to each other, and that the nastier children are those with some real family problem or similar.
But getting down to the root, isn't it all just lack of self esteem? People who are sure of themselves, REALLY sure sown deep inside, and live a happy life don't feel the need to rain shame on others!
On the other hand, if you're not happy with your life or have low self esteem, you may end up being aggressive as a kind of subconscious form of preemptive defense.
Just my 2 (Euro)cents. 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but not in practice. - Anonymous
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. - B. Bryson
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Quote: had code samples that don't compile
This isn't really any different than half the [printed] technical books out there that people paid for.
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Suppress errors on a function call to an undefined library.  Lesson learned! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Message Closed
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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Leandro Taset wrote: It's sort of funny to actually win over an untamed beast just after
"losing it" a bit about them.
Well said! When the site finally loaded I raised my arms in victory! Cheers!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: How to frustrate a PHP newbie
Make them write PHP?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Been around since 2005 but first time this causual programmer learned about it...
"Let's be honest here, what does a programmer fundamentally do? A programmer moves data from one memory location to another. Over and over. In this respect, a programmer is not unlike a taxi driver. A taxi driver moves people from place to place all day long. The people get dropped off, do their things, and new people get loaded back up to be taken someplace else - except unlike programmers, the things taxi drivers shuffle around all day pay them for the service! Well programmers no longer need to put up with that kind if ingratitude from their data: introducting the Taxi Programming Languge!"
http://web.archive.org/web/20130116204555/bigzaphod.org/taxi/[^]
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JoeSox wrote: Let's be honest here, what does a programmer fundamentally do? A programmer moves data from one memory location to another.
Not comparable to driving a cab; where the driver only needs to focus on the single route, we're orchestrating multiple cabs, hoping that there won't be any collisions.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Have you seen the language that is nothing but punctuation marks?! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm not a taxi driver; I'm Louie, sitting in the cage bossing the taxi drivers (programs) around, collecting money that the drivers earned.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I'm not a taxi driver; I'm Louie
I got that far and the mind supplied "chewing on a banana and banging away on a keyboard".
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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We must be funny taxi drivers, given that we send everything by bus.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...never use magnification when you take the ball out of a trackball to clean the rollers it moves on.
All you will see is the other dirt, and hair, and yuck; and the next thing you will do is dismantle it, clean it properly, and put it back together.
And if you're me, you'll then take it apart again, put the middle button mechanism back together the correct way this time, spot some more rubbish in there under a PCB and clean that, make a note of the microswitch ID's, reassemble it and then order a new pair of switches since one is starting to "bounce" too much. 
Magnifying halo lights: they should be banned. From my desk, anyway... 
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