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It will be interesting to see how many 32 bit systems are still in existence in 2038. By then, I would imagine the majority of Unix-like systems would have switched to a 64 bit epoch.
Though, even with 64 bit, I guess we'll have to deal with the problem again in the year 292,277,026,596...I might miss that one 
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Back in 1999, this was the issue that my coworkers and I kept trying to tell people would be a much more pressing situation. Hopefully, most 32-bit architecture will be retired by then.
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It will affect digital TV as well - cable, terrestrial and satellite as well.
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... to start a campaign to get IT teachers to sign up to CP, and send some time hanging around in QA answering their own homework questions?
It would be a lot more peaceful there after each year's new wave of student expulsions ... and we might actually improve the quality of the next generation of developers. 
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I find it not evil, I find it even a good suggestion.
Each Homework question answered with a unique thing in the code, and then you can spot the students copying from the internet (and send them home)
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I get the feeling that very few of the homework questions are coming from students with good teachers. Any teacher worth their salary should start the first lecture by telling them not to waste time posting their homework questions on CodeProject, SO etc. The bad teachers could not care less.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ... to start a campaign to get IT teachers to sign up to CP, and send some time hanging around in QA answering their own homework questions?
No.
Failing companies should be allowed to fail. Teachers have the same rights.
OriginalGriff wrote: It would be a lot more peaceful there after each year's new wave of student expulsions ... and we might actually improve the quality of the next generation of developers.
Any student who wants to can become a member and benefit from it. But I oppose the idea of having paid teachers offloading their work here
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I think you misunderstand: the idea is the teachers answer their own homework and then kick the cheating kids of the course.
At the moment they are getting us to do their work for them!
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The kids are trying to get an education here, because the teachers aren't providing. Blocking one of the few places where they can get ACTUAL help and where people take time to explain (looking at you Griff!) will make things worse.
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No one said nothing about blocking the site.
Nobody said a thing about students coming here to learn.
The full point is about lazy / incompetent students coming here to get their homework done and responsibility of those "bad" teachers.
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Nelek wrote: Nobody said a thing about students coming here to learn.
Griff wrote: ... to start a campaign to get IT teachers to sign up to CP, and send some time hanging around in QA answering their own homework questions?
Nelek wrote: The full point is about lazy / incompetent students coming here to get their homework done and responsibility of those "bad" teachers.
You are blaming the students for being lazy; coming to a forum where you get burned down and trying to find an answer is not lazy in my book. Still there are a lot of homework-related questions on the forum (I never visit Q&A) where the student has not been explained what System.IO does, and has some kind of task or homework that includes just that.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: (I never visit Q&A)
You would find things like:
Enquirer wrote: Hi
Is there a method or a code that allows me to control my dialog (GUI) in VC6 instead of mouse
What I have tried: (CP Text, not user text)
I have not tried anything yet.
or....
Enquirer wrote: Need to Disable share option in online word document
What I have tried: (CP Text, not user text)
i researched lot of sites.
but nothing i am getting.
any one give me the solution.
or...
Enquirer wrote: Describe how you would build an asp.net core page with multiple partial views? How would you optimize the performance? Provide a code sample illustrating how you could do this from both the client and server side.
Describe your experience with Azure? Why should I use DocumentDB services over RDBMS, and why shouldn't I? How would you go about developing an asp.net core WebApi Controller to interact with DocumentDb?
Describe in detail your experience with Bootstrap, HTML5, and CSS3, TypeScript, KnockOut, Asp.net Core MVC - please provide some sites that highlight that experience.
Include a code sample that shows how you would connect to a restful service in an asp.net MVC application (from the controller).
What I have tried: (CP Text, not user text)
Describe how you would build an asp.net core page with multiple partial views? How would you optimize the performance? Provide a code sample illustrating how you could do this from both the client and server side.
Describe your experience with Azure? Why should I use DocumentDB services over RDBMS, and why shouldn't I? How would you go about developing an asp.net core WebApi Controller to interact with DocumentDb?
And this is what I mean, that has nothing to do with the education or the quality of the teacher..
Believe me when I say, that there are even more drastic examples every day
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First two don't even look like they were from students.
Nelek wrote: And this is what I mean, that has nothing to do with the education or the quality of the teacher..
The examples have nothing to do with homework.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: The examples have nothing to do with homework.
If you spent more time in QA you would realise that they are homework. And the following comments between OP and CodeProject member usually confirm that pretty quickly.
Here is another typical example:
Quote: A number (N) of lines (extending to infinity) in both directions are drawn on a plane. The lines are specified by the angle (positive or negative) made with the x axis (in degrees). It may be assumed that the different lines are not coincident (they do not overlap each other). The objective is to determine the number of parallelograms in the plane formed by these lines.
If the lines are given with an angle of 10, 70, 30 and 30, the figure looks like this
com.tcs.cv.automata.ei.middleware.DocxToHtmlConverter@a4ad7b:image1.png
L1 is at 10 degrees to the x axis, L2 is at 70 degrees to the x axis, L3 and L4 are at 30 degrees to the x axis. It can be seen that there are no parallelograms formed by these lines
What I have tried:
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The latter is obvious, but the previous ones hardly. What school teaches VC6? What student has "Need to Disable share option in online word document" as a programming assignment?
There's a lot of them that are already in a workforce, and still asking for code, sometimes not even being able to answer whether code would actually solve anything.
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Yes but this discussion is about students posting their homework as questions.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Yes but this discussion is about students posting their homework as questions.
Then please stop doing as if every lazy idiot who copies his task into Q&A is a student 
It was also on whether we should collaborate with the teachers, to have the "cheaters" being caught.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Then please stop doing as if every lazy idiot who copies his task into Q&A is a student
I can give you that those examples were not the best ones.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: It was also on whether we should collaborate with the teachers, to have the "cheaters" being caught.
Yes... until you hi-jacked it 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: The kids are trying to get an education here, because the teachers aren't providing. Blocking one of the few places where they can get ACTUAL help and where people take time to explain (looking at you Griff!) will make things worse.
Maybe, but
enrolling in programming courses because "you want to become a programmer" really isn't a particularly good filter. No more than enrolling in a music class will make you a millionaire rock musician (or avoiding them for rap); no more than enrolling in a gym class will make one an Olympic contender.
Want to and able to, having no true cause-and-effect relationship (in either direction) is where the problem lies. Where I work, one of the employees went to classes to become a makeup artist. On a good day she looks like a geisha who applied her makeup with boxing gloves.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: enrolling in programming courses because "you want to become a programmer" really isn't a particularly good filter. No more than enrolling in a music class will make you a millionaire rock musician (or avoiding them for rap); no more than enrolling in a gym class will make one an Olympic contender.
A teacher is not paid to filter, but to educate. Not to create the best, but to transfer the basics.
I understand the confusion, as most educational institute seem to be only filtering, not educating.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Want to and able to, having no true cause-and-effect relationship (in either direction) is where the problem lies. Where I work, one of the employees went to classes to become a makeup artist. On a good day she looks like a geisha who applied her makeup with boxing gloves.
Tell her to find someone who can transfer basic knowledge. She might not be talented enough to use make up to look like something from the "Alien" movies, but that ain't the goal. Something like applying a foundation is not a complex science.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I understand the confusion, as most educational institute seem to be only filtering, not educating.
I observe precisely the opposite. Starting with ethnically motivated enrollment quotas (an un-filter is better description) and then an array of micky-mouse courses to impart that feel-good aura. Finally, out in the job market where new hiring quotas cause relevant filtering (competence) to be avoided an prevent (even if unjustified) costly legal entanglements.Eddy Vluggen wrote: Tell her . . . Something like applying a foundation is not a complex science.
Well, aside from stealing her money by teaching beyond her capabilities, we can revisit the programming analogy. Learning to post on Farcebook doesn't make one computer savvy. Giving a diploma and telling someone they are is not at all helpful to them.
There's an implicit promise when teaching a curriculum: that the knowledge will be transferred in a usable manner - not just transferred.
Users vs. Builders. I can't be everything - and neither can anybody else.
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