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Having a resource at your disposal does not imply anyone knows how to use it. Or even wants to.
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dandy72 wrote: Having a resource at your disposal does not imply anyone knows how to use it. Or even wants to.
Wrong, and hardly an argument for magic. Only in the realm of unicorns and small Gods, no magic in the real world.
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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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Ask your teacher.
If you arent at college, get a different job. One you can do.
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I agree. I used to tell people this all the time on Stack Overflow, but then I got "the talk" from the admins.
So I don't bother helping people anymore.
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Don;t post the same thing in multiple places - I already answered this in QA:
Look at what <cde>cin does: Basic Input/Output - C++ Tutorials[^] and you will see:
Quote: However, cin extraction always considers spaces (whitespaces, tabs, new-line...) as terminating the value being extracted, and thus extracting a string means to always extract a single word, not a phrase or an entire sentence.
To get an entire line from cin, there exists a function, called getline, that takes the stream (cin) as first argument, and the string variable as second.
Multiple posts just duplicates work and that annoys people.
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How should this post be flagged by the way? (if at all)
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No flag - he's just an idiot who doesn't look for rules, or doesn't think they apply to him.
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OriginalGriff wrote: he's just an idiot who doesn't look for rules, or doesn't think they apply to him
Why do you always assume right away that people are idiots ? Maybe he ... mmmh ... well no, the rules are clearly stated ... or he does not know ... mmhh, neither, he made to the forum and cross-posted ... or maybe ... well no, OK, he's an idiot. 
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I do like an argument when I don't have to say anything! 
(Makes me feel like a member of the Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Plus he doesn't know how to compose a valid password.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh, and by the way - learn to read: the text at the top of the page is pretty clear that this is not the place to ask questions...
Students. Wish they would engage their brains at least once a month...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Students. Wish they would engage their brains at least once a month...
I'm being a grumpy old fart here, but it's appalling to me the attitude so many students seem to take now.
When I was a computer engineering major in the early 80's the resources I had for help with projects were few: my classmates, the textbook, and the instructor. My university had a first-class library with a lot of computing materials on hand, and even that wasn't always helpful.
Today's students have countless online resources to help them when they get stuck with a project. If I had that back when I was in school I would have thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
Why can't they respect community guidelines?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yep. Now they have a search engine that can find what you need from a few trivial words (we had a card index which ... um ... didn't); a debugger that can change the code while it's running (we had guesses and logging statements, plus a 24 hour turnaround on card decks when I was at Uni).
And they don't use either of 'em.
Worse, they don't - mostly - seem interested in why it doesn't work, just what the fix is. Where has the interest, the passion, the "what happens if I push this?" attitude gone?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: Where has the interest, the passion, the "what happens if I push this?" attitude gone?
I think it's still there, it's just that there are so many 'students' in the field because someone told them it was a way to make money. The ones with a genuine interest and/or knack are a smaller fraction now than 'back in the day'.
Software Zen: delete this;
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For a while now, I have noticed a few websites (the Washington Post one in particular that has gotten me steamed enough to post here  ) where the URL textbox gets taken up completely by a box that shows the website owner, that is "Verified by Entrust" as per its tooltip. OK, this a good thing, but I find that if I want to use the browser sheet (i.e., currently showing that page) to show a different page by typing in the URL, I can't because that "verified" box completely covers the URL textbox, so I have no way to put the active cursor in there, and even if I could, I would be flying blind.
Now this could be rectified if I could widen the URL textbox, but I don't see a way to do it short of disabling some of my add-ons, which I most certainly do not wish to do (I would have no problem the add-on toolbuttons were shunted to the overflow toolbutton, but I don't see a way to do this).
Any ideas?
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I go there, I don't see any "Verified by Entrust" at all. Mind you, I'm using Chrome. Is this a FireFox extension of yours or something?
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swampwiz wrote: hat "verified" box completely covers the URL textbox,
Mmmhh ... do you have a 2" monitor ? Or are you talking about mobile browsing ?
The certificate checker (because this is what it is) indeed takes some screen space, but in my case it is shrinked : for the washington post, it shows "Washington Post (Com...", so not much of a bother.
Here a way to hide it using the options : how to remove firefox security certificate info from the location bar | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support[^]. Not sure how to reduce the size without removing it completely though, if that is what you are after.
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Uninstall FF, and use Edge.
At least then you'll have good reasons to be miserable.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: use Edge
You drive around in a rusty old van and offer candy to children, don't you?
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's on my To Do list.
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NEMS | Nagios Enterprise Monitoring Server[^]
Set this up on another Pi and you can have it monitor your network and report any issues to you.
Odered me a couple of Pi 3 B+ yesterday, turned up at work todayabout 19 hours after paying for the order. Hope to have a play with this and Pi Hole over the Christmas break during barbeque and drinking sessions.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: Hope to have a play with this and Pi Hole over the Christmas break during barbeque and drinking sessions.
Oh gawd. You do realise you are going to end up barbecuing the Pi, don't you?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Oh gawd. You do realise you are going to end up barbecuing the Pi, don't you?
Not a chance. Aussies have special powers when it comes to barbewues and drinking, we can add any other task and still get ot all right.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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