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There is no reason to provide any executable/compiled files - this site is 'for those who code'...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I suspect that poster is of the [Gimme the Codez] variety - so I wouldn't let it bother you Ed
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It's hard to believe there are nearly 11 million Code Project members now. It makes me feel old to be member 29062. Almost as old as you!  Not quite the close-knit community of the golden days.
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Ed Gadziemski wrote: What is your take on providing EXE files with articles? Do you still do so?
I never run the exe for the reasons you mentioned, concern about viruses, etc. Also, I usually want to include the code is something I'm doing, so I want to make sure the code compiles, I really don't give a darn about the exe.
Me, I just put a link to the code on GitHub nowadays. I'll make a branch specific for the code in the article so the reader can correlate what I'm writing about and the code examples in the article to the actual code.
Sorry to hear about your 1-voter.
Marc
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You can always downvote the posting, then explain why.
Maybe a downvote or two will be enough to convince people not to downvote without good reason.
Or maybe it'll start flame wars. Who knows?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: downvote without good reason
Members can vote any darn way they like. And so they do.
modified 25-Oct-14 23:18pm.
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I think for 99.99% of the cases it makes no sense to include an .exe in an article explaining/discussing some code.
Try Hovercraft for Android, voted "a game" by players.
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I usually don't add exe files to the downloads, for the reasons you have mentioned and most of my stuff is something where the source code is much more important than an executable.
The console is a black place
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I think your reasoning is excellent, Ed. You just ran into a web surfer who's too lazy to compile the project himself, or too inept, or just looking for freeware with no intention of learning anything or doing any work. Move along, nothing to see here, lad. And nothing to be concerned about on your end. Carry on!
Will Rogers never met me.
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A sad demise ..
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That's a shame. And so young (says Ed, who will soon turn 59).
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Another legend gone... 
"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
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He didn't look too good at the reunion concert. Funny, I always thought that Ginger would be the first to go.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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The great ones are dropping like flies, Ravi. Just between us two, I don't think that situation is going to get better anytime soon... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I know... 
For some reason I just recalled when a whole bunch of artists whose names started with J passed away, at roughly the same time in the 70s: Janis, Morrison, Hendrix and Jim Croce. I remember feeling really sad at how my idols were being snatched away from me and hoping James Taylor wouldn't be on the list. Thankfully he wasn't. Weird what sticks in the mind!
/ravi
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So glad I got to see him when he was on tour with the Ronnie Scotts band in Bristol (UK), a true one off.
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Ah man, My Father got me into Jack a long time ago. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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/ravi
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I suspect I just lost an approximate 30 hours worth of work. I decided to play around with the CodeProject API, and of course did that on my dev VM (which runs on my iMac - no comments on that. Please.) - I was updating it (the VM that is, not the iMac) to use Ubuntu 14.xx, and all of the sudden the whole HOST OS hung up, crashed to leave the VM in unusuable state. Yes, uploading everything to an SCM was on the todo list 
Update: I'm now setting up a second VM, praying to be able to mount the old virtual hdd and rescue the data.
The console is a black place
modified 25-Oct-14 12:39pm.
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You can (of course) restore from your last hourly backup, I assume? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Eeeermmm... No
I did not use the mac for any important stuff before I started using it as dev VM host, so there is no backup at all.
The console is a black place
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Do you want to borrow one of mine? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Marco Bertschi wrote: I did not use the mac for any important stuff
Words to live by.
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Marco Bertschi wrote: I decided to play around with the CodeProject API,
Good luck, I'd be interested to see what you're up to. I haven't fussed with the API yet myself.
Marc
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