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Nah. I'm sure you can bring light anywhere, from a spark to a raging fire, even in the darkest pits of darkness.
PS: Is it just me, or are others also suffering from slow mail notifications? They used to be instantaneous (up to some months ago), now it sometimes takes hours to get something.
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I wouldn't know. I switched notifications off a couple of years ago - my inbox was getting swamped with replies. Once I managed to switch the email link as well, my life became a lot easier - the number of people who emailed me with WPF problems was getting stupid.
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They are instant for me, and our email and the site are on completely different systems and so would be affected by the same things that would affect others.
However, we're adding more mail forwarders (in fact, completely rewriting the entire notification system as we speak) so it may be a moot point.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks. The mails seem to originate at the same time as the messages appear on the forums, however somehow they often aren't getting through right away (and then suddenly I get 3, or 5, or 10 mails all at once); not sure what causes that, as I haven't noticed significant delays from my mail provider (Yahoo).
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The phrasing there is misbegotten. What happens is an author, new and lost and frightened by the onslaught of comments is sent an email by Code Project staff (probably me) explaining what the Mentor program is and "do you want to take part?" Followed by a more in-depth explanation of how it works and what to expect.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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The preview doesn't show in the said browser on Android. Is it the issue from CP's side or the browser's? Or any settings need to be changed on the browser?
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Which device? A phone or a tablet?
Can you please go to our browser test[^] page and let me know what it says?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The device is HTC Desire running Android 2.2 Kernel version 2.6.32.15 and browser version Webkit 3.1
The page says this.
Gecko False
IE False
Opera False
WebKit True
Browser SAFARI
Type Safari4
Standard True
Display Mode Normal
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Andrioid 2.2; en-in; HTC Desire Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1
Version 4
Major Version 4
Minor Version 0
Web 2.0 Enabled True
Mobile Device False
Cookies OK? True
Server Web24
Country
Both mobile view and normal view don't show the preview.
modified 24-Nov-11 6:51am.
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Thanks for that. I will dig in
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Can I clarify what you mean by preview? In the forums, in Quick Answers, or when posting an article?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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For messages only. I haven't tried posting any QA stuff or articles yet though so IDK about them.
And it happens only in mobile view. I checked again and Full Site displays the preview. IDK if you fixed it for full site but if you didn't need to then sorry for the confusion.
modified 30-Nov-11 2:58am.
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When a person leaves a comment for us an email comes that has some grammatical problem :
Do not hit 'reply' to this email: To view, click here.
.....has posted an comment to your Answer about......
Am I correct that it should be "a comment" not "an comment" ? 
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It depends on who you ask. In the U.S., yes - it should be "a comment". Anywhere else, maybe not.
This answer brought to by Defenders of the Word "Gotten" (and Other Perfectly Useful Phrases). Our motto - we use words because they're there, and if you don't like it, we'll kick you in the scrotum.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Proper English uses 'an' for the indefinite article before a word beginning with a vowel sound; for example an umbrella vs a union.
Canadian English has GOTTEN in such a mess, they don't know what to use. Eh.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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You'd get into a mess too if you tried to please everyone all of the time... It's amazing we're not completely insane up/over here.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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Just ban French then everyone [else] will be happy. Simples eh!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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But I have heard that U.S. people don't care about grammatical mistakes and accept every sentence structure that shows the intention of the speaker !  And in contrast to them are British people who are very sensitive to grammar of the sentence. Is that right ?
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Amir Mahfoozi wrote: British people who are very sensitive to grammar of the sentence. Is that right ?
Yes, because it (like correct spelling) does make a difference to the meaning of the sentence, despite what some modern teaching methods would have us believe.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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Amir Mahfoozi wrote: But I have heard that U.S. people don't care about grammatical mistakes and
accept every sentence structure that shows the intention of the speaker ! And in
contrast to them are British people who are very sensitive to grammar of the
sentence.
And you believe everything you hear?
I was taught that to convey a message properly, you're supposed to use proper English, including spelling, syntax, and sentence structure. Those principles are apprently not part of modern curriculum.
"In contrast" is a generalization, and some British folks are just as bad about their spelling/grammar as are some American folks.
Amir Mahfoozi wrote: Is that right ?
In a word, no.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I don't believe whatever I hear but I can share it with the other people and now that I know your opinion I got the point 
Thank you for leaving me an comment! 
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I have heard that every generalization about the use of language by any country, or nationality, or ethnic group, which proposes another group as being more orthodox, correct, literate, is a form of stereotypical thinking which is as valuable as assuming all Black People from Alabama in the United States all pay the banjo, and love watermelon.
"Proper Grammar" is an oxymoron.
Language is a living, liquid, evolving, seething, fermenting, soup of culture spiced with fads, trends, lingo, argot, jargon, cant, pidgen, slang, and dialects, and shaped by "tides" of socio-economic events and social movements, local and global, and the great geo-political threads of the struggle for world power and economic dominance that wind through the warp and woof of history's loom.
That said, I must admit that, as an American, I love to hear "high English," as spoken fluently, and elegantly, by British English speakers with high education, which included exposure to Latin, Greek, and "classical literature."
What is pathetic about American language use to me, compared to the rest of the world ... as someone who has spent a substantial part of their adult life living in countries where English was not the "mother-tongue" (in Asia) ... is how few Americans can speak more than one language compared to most other people I meet from other countries.
How wonderful it is to see someone like Vladimir Nabokov who grew up tri-lingual (Russian, French, English) being able to write magnificent English literature (or Conrad, or many others, who did not grow up speaking English).
"... Sturgeon's revelation. It came to him that Science Fiction is indeed ninety-percent crud, but that also—Eureka!—ninety-percent of everything is crud. All things—cars, books, cheeses, hairstyles, people and pins are, to the expert and discerning eye, crud, except for the acceptable tithe which we each happen to like." early 1950's quote from Venture Sci-Fi Magazine on the origin of Sturgeon's Law, by author Theodore Sturgeon: source Oxford English Dictionary on-line "Word-of-the-Day."
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I agree with you that generally generalization is not acceptable
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Amir Mahfoozi wrote: generally generalization is not acceptable
+5 Delightful Zen lesson of the day !
Reminds me of the great American spiritual teacher, Yogi Berra, who manifested as a master of the game of baseball, who said: "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
best, Bill
"... Sturgeon's revelation. It came to him that Science Fiction is indeed ninety-percent crud, but that also—Eureka!—ninety-percent of everything is crud. All things—cars, books, cheeses, hairstyles, people and pins are, to the expert and discerning eye, crud, except for the acceptable tithe which we each happen to like." early 1950's quote from Venture Sci-Fi Magazine on the origin of Sturgeon's Law, by author Theodore Sturgeon: source Oxford English Dictionary on-line "Word-of-the-Day."
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It seems that you have read a lot of English books very carefully and you have remembered all of their remarkable sentences 
Lucky you that have this strong memory
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: we'll kick you in the scrotum.
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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