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YAUT!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I did not solve it, but I really like the clue.
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Thanks. It's nice to find an anagram that makes part of a sentence without too much torture.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 4-Mar-22 1:20am.
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Even a bit more, since official membership was on valentine's day in 2002 - but I have been there from almost the beginning on, before TheTerribleDatabaseCatastrophee, so you can probably add two years to this. (here the screenshot : CP in 2000[^]
I am bit nostalgic of the early days, where I could help a lot of fellow programmers in the C++ forum with Microsoft Foundation Classes, and also helped shaping this website piece after piece. I can still remember the day I joined the community - I had a question about Embedded Visual Studio, in times where embedded code for automotive in C++ was .. stuttering, I was sitting near my buddy who was doing an internship with me, in the office of one of the big automotive company (the one with a star) developing diagnostics systems for embedded ECUs, and he told me "Hey, I found a cool website, maybe you can ask your question there". From there on, the addiction began.  Got to know a lot of very, very nice and talented people all the way, and still very happy to be in the community. Career got me away from new technologies, C#, web stuff and so, but still enjoy going through Q&A to see what I could have known 
Cheers CP and Loungers, and thanks Chris for the technical help your site provided and ... for the rest ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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I joined late in 2003, so some way to go yet. But I do recall getting help from some great articles back in the day when I had a proper job.
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>22 years here. I fondly remember being kept company by the Lounge crowd in the wee hours of the morning, while rebuilding the company's transactions records (Ace Hardware) that got deleted for three days by a manager, using paper reports to repeat ever transaction. The group kept me (relatively) sane those 36 non-stop hours of data re-entry. Good times.... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I could nap on that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I think I probably could as well.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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For a looong time.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"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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I'm not that lucky.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Basic biology; don't push your luck then. That's not a coffee anymore.
Simpeler, it is the dose that determines toxicity. I smoke for example; most of the toxins burn. But if I soaked one of those cigarettes in water and drank it, I'd die (over some hours, retching and pain).
If you muck with caffeine, read the instructions. For once, RTFM!!
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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That trainer is napping -- permanently! 
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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200, eh?
Even Fry could only get half that far...
[Edit]
He even looks like Brucie, the personal trainer at the casino, from GTA Online...
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Four years ago a dear friend lost her 21yo to the same evil concoction.
Plug "Lachlan Foote" into your search engine to get the story.
There was some regulatory action, but I'm not at all confident in its effectiveness.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yes, I completely agree with your opinion. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) I will let you know if I've contacted and heard from these ones and other members occasionally.
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If you want to get political; why just virtue-signal?
ONE WAY?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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You know.. maybe it just wishes them well? we don't want to lose member for no good reason! 
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I've said it earlier this week and I'll say it again...
These people are fearing for their lives, their loved ones, their homes and their country.
If you're more concerned with "politics in the Lounge" than the well-being of your fellow CP'ians, you lack empathy.
There's little we can do, but at least 0x01AA is asking these members how they are doing and letting them know he's thinking about them.
It may just be what keeps these people going, because they know the world is cheering for them (well, except for you and some other members apparently, because how dare they get political in the Lounge).
Not everything is about politics, sometimes it's just about caring for your fellow human beings and not wanting them to die.
I've said this twice now this week, I guess programmers really are a bunch of anti-social cynics 
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Sander Rossel wrote: These people are fearing for their lives, their loved ones, their homes and their country.
They should, because the government made them targets. Civilians fighting a war, means they no longer civilians but targets.
Sander Rossel wrote: Not everything is about politics, sometimes it's just about caring for your fellow human beings and not wanting them to die.
I've said this twice now this week, I guess programmers really are a bunch of anti-social cynics
Big words. Yet, it was silent when there were no WMD's in Iraq.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: They should, because the government made them targets. Civilians fighting a war, means they no longer civilians but targets.
Putin made them targets and no one else, but this discussion is a political one so let's keep it at that.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Big words. Yet, it was silent when there were no WMD's in Iraq.
Times have changed, people have changed, society has changed.
The USA invading Iraq now would probably cause the same kind of reaction, but I guess we won't know until something like that happens again.
Maybe it's because (social) media is dominated by western people and Ukraine is a western country while Iraq isn't.
Whatever the case, it's no reason to not support our Ukrainian members right now.
Especially when one posts about his situation in person.
To me, the only acceptable reaction to any CP member posting "I might die any moment now, but I just wanted to let you know I'm still alive." is a reaction of support: "stay strong", "we're thinking about you", "let's hope it'll stop soon" or even "thoughts and prayers".
Going out of your way to tell them their misery somehow bothers you is not an acceptable reaction.
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Well said Sander
I guess programmers really are a bunch of anti-social cynics
Not all of us
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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