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Re: "Please do not post programming questions here" notices

25-May-10 13:11

Luc Pattyn wrote:
Did I miss something? What gibberish needs a reply?

Classic.

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Chris Maunder25-May-10 12:56

Re: "Please do not post programming questions here" notices

25-May-10 12:56

People don't read. When they do read, they consider themselves a special case.

Like the guy who parks his car at the front door of the supermarket, blocking the sidewalk ramp, instead of moving 10 feet away to an actual empty carpark. He's special. It's only him. It won't matter this one time.

Yes, having a grim, cynical day today.

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Dalek Dave25-May-10 13:58

Dalek Dave

25-May-10 13:58

Chris Maunder wrote:
Yes, having a grim, cynical day today.

Just the same as all the others then.

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Re: "Please do not post programming questions here" notices

Gary Wheeler26-May-10 0:17

Gary Wheeler

26-May-10 0:17

Chris Maunder wrote:
Yes, having a grim, cynical day today.

One word: Bike.

Software Zen: delete this;

Re: "Please do not post programming questions here" notices

Chris Maunder26-May-10 6:32

Re: "Please do not post programming questions here" notices

26-May-10 6:32

Yep - snuck out and did that. Ahhhh...much better.

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Dan Neely26-May-10 2:27

Dan Neely

26-May-10 2:27

What you when that happens is one of two things. If you're driving a beater truck you pull/push the offender into a ditch. If not you deflate all 4 of his tires and call the cops to report him for illegal parking. Laugh | :laugh:

3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18

Minor annoyance.

PompeyBoy325-May-10 5:45

PompeyBoy3

25-May-10 5:45

Please see this post.

http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=3482949#xx3482949xx[^]

The.....not sure what the word is for them.............curly bits of the letters like y g etc are cut off.
Like I say a minor annoyance.

Re: Minor annoyance.

Luc Pattyn25-May-10 7:16

Luc Pattyn

25-May-10 7:16

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descender[^]

Smile | :)

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CPOL license and immorality

jochar25-May-10 4:07

jochar

25-May-10 4:07

Hi,

The CPOL license contains the following restriction at 5f :

You agree not to use the Work for illegal, immoral or improper purposes

I have some troubles to interpret this clause… Who defines what is immoral or improper ?
(Even "legal" is relative to where you live)

How does one know if he is breaking the license ? Are there jurisdictions defining morality / immorality ?
What about creating something that the original author did not anticipate, is this covered by improper purpose ? How does one know ?

Considering that the name of the author can't be used without his consent already, I don't understand this clause.

Thanks for any clarification ! Smile | :)

Re: CPOL license and immorality

Matthew Dennis25-May-10 15:25

Matthew Dennis

25-May-10 15:25

Sort of makes you think of the ending of "Alice's Restaurant"/

Re: CPOL license and immorality

Chris Maunder26-May-10 9:41

Re: CPOL license and immorality [modified]

26-May-10 9:41

11a states "This License shall be governed by the laws of the location of the head office of the Author or if the Author is an individual, the laws of location of the principal place of residence of the Author.", so these definitions are judged in the jurisdiction of the Author of the code.

cheers,
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Microsoft C++ MVP

jochar26-May-10 12:35

jochar

26-May-10 12:35

Thank you.

But… I don't think there is any jurisdiction actually defining immorality, is there ? (or improper usage)

Immoral is not illegal, so there is not even a need to define it in the legal sense. How does it work ?

Whether what one is doing with the code is immoral or not sounds very subjective / arbitrary. If the goal is to prevent usages that the original author wouldn't approve or like, then it isn't very clear.

I know there are some moral clauses in some contracts (like in sports). But these clauses explicitely define the innacceptable behavior that will lead to the breach. With a broad "immoral or improper purposes", it seems impossible to know what exactly is covered…

Thanks!

modified on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 6:57 PM

Duplicated tags in QA [modified]

Moak24-May-10 0:38

24-May-10 0:38

For some reason this question[^] is tagged with: C#, SQL, SQL, database
and I am not able to remove the duplicated tag. It looks okay in the preview if I remove one, but then the double SQL tag shows up again.

EDIT: If you hover over the tags you can see that they are linked differently (possibly two tag IDs 93 and 157 for SQL?), thanks pompeyboy3 for the hint.

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modified on Monday, May 24, 2010 9:25 AM

Dalek Dave24-May-10 0:43

Dalek Dave

24-May-10 0:43

Not Just you!

I tried, and slightly edited the question in case it wasn't registering as there was no change to the body.

Alas, the SQL x2 remains.

BUG!!!!

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Moak24-May-10 5:12

24-May-10 5:12

Now there are more questions with duplicated tags. It happens when you retag an existing question and add "SQL", it results in a duplicated SQL tag. So far this happened with no other tag.

http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/83353/how-to-do-i-get-the-min-values.aspx[^]
http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/83474/Csharp-insert-into-two-tables-using-a-procedure.aspx[^]

Hope this helps. Smile | :)

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Thiru Thirunavukarasu25-May-10 6:03

Thiru Thirunavukarasu

25-May-10 6:03

Thanks for the report guys. I'm looking into this now.

Peter_in_278026-May-10 16:26

Peter_in_2780

26-May-10 16:26

Another one for you
http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/83716/Whether-two-methods-are-equal-syntactically.aspx[^]

It's tagged Java, Java.

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Thiru Thirunavukarasu27-May-10 4:33

Thiru Thirunavukarasu

27-May-10 4:33

Java too huh. I have this fixed locally so it shouldn't happen for new posts moving forward (after Chris uploads). I'll see if I can cleanup all the old ones too. Thanks for the report.

Moak26-May-10 22:52

26-May-10 22:52

And another one http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/84081/Processing-huge-amount-of-data.aspx[^]
Suddenly double Java, Java tags.

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Thiru Thirunavukarasu27-May-10 8:25

Thiru Thirunavukarasu

27-May-10 8:25

Mostly fixed. This shouldn't be happening for any new posts. And we will shortly update existing items and remove the duplicate tags.

Moak11-Jun-10 5:07