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Easy: Fame and Glory of course 
No, honest: I do it for my own sake. My memory is so poor that I know the next time I've got the same problem, I can't remember how the heck I solved it. Thus: Better to write an article or a tip as a reminder to your future self... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: I do it for my own sake. My memory is so poor that I know the next time I've got the same problem, I can't remember how the heck I solved it.
Same here. Fortunately most of the time I can remember in which project I already solved it and can look it up from there. Just didn't find the time to finish any of the articles I started for those things..
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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That is what I figured T&T was for, when it first started I happily began entering my one liners that I found useful. Then it evolved into a mini article suppository and I got shouted at for the minimalist content.
Having just spent 2 hours ratting through 15 applications trying to locate something I did 5 years ago in Silverlight which I now want to apply to a WPF app I can understand your need!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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That is also my opinion on what T&T is for. Some moderators get too carried away in my opinion. But surely a man of your reputation can enter T&T's without moderation? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Ooh, my first reason to answer on Quora. Thanks Nish.
This space for rent
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You are welcome. Quora would benefit from some POHian wisdom.
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Nish Nishant wrote: POHian
The Last of the POHians - I think I saw that movie once...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Needed more scath. 
veni bibi saltavi
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The same reason I was writing tips and articles about CP/M and the Amstrad PCW series for free for actual paper publications back in the late 80s, I would imagine. Nobody was ever going to pay for them!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Speak for yourself, I got paid for code I got published in Amstrad Action[^]
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Corollary: Why are so many people posting questions on Quora when they are blatantly not qualified to handle anything sharper than a crayon?
I would say there are in the region of 5%-10% of the questions worth reading and of those maybe the same rate are worth answering. Reminds me of somewhere else[^] 
veni bibi saltavi
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The reasons for the tremendous efforts poured into CP, and, indeed, Quora, have to with the fact that we are in the final Kalpa of the great cosmic Yuga cycle where the Darker Feminine Principle of Devi manifests as Kali, The Merciless, The Destroyer of Order, of Syllogistic Reasoning, of Patriarchy.
It is a time when galaxies, planets, nations, societies, families, begin to fade back into the hallucinatory shadows of immaterial god-fluff they really are, when all moral order disintegrates, when all forms of security prove inadequate to prevent the inevitability of death being salient to every conscious entity.
As William Blake said in "The Four Zoas: Night the Eighth:" “All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”
People strive to escape the relentless ominous cataclysm with all kinds of distractions from collecting Barbie Dolls, to writing for CodeProject, to gluttony, violence, suicide, terrorism, drug addiction, playing video games ...
But, the good news is that Kalki is going to be sent down here by Vishnu to clean house; and then, the whole she-bang can start over, with a fresh slate, and that clean-all-over minty feeling.
Have a nice day.
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Wow
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Does anyone know how Quora decides to order answers? They're not showing up in either most to least votes order or best to worst answer. The latter would put @Ravi-Bhavnani 's answer first.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You could ask that on Quora...
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols article in Computerworld | Feb 12, 2016
raises some important issues about the Win 10 vs Win 7 and XP.
Steve, who has seen the entire evolution of PC OSs since CP/M,
concludes
"To me, the more interesting question is 'How is Windows 10 doing compared to Windows 7?' What I see is that Windows 10 “seems” to be catching up.
Why is that happening? I don’t think it’s because people are eager to move to Windows 10. Everything I’ve seen indicates that Windows 10 has gained traction not because it’s a major improvement over Windows 7 — it’s not — but because Microsoft has been pushing Windows 10 on users"
My take away is there's no reason to upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10.
His comments regarding Linux Mint 17.3 are also interesting
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You seem awfully over-exercised about this. Do you have a bet on W10 failing or something? I can see no other reason to be banging on about this when you've already been told that the majority here don't agree with you. It's beginning to look dangerously like the behaviour of creatures that live under bridges and hate goats.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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He's not the only one. I'll take 7 any day over 10. I have no need for 10 and ain't going there.
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23741 wrote: I have no need for 10 and ain't going there.
Fine. Your funeral choice!  The difference is that you haven't made two inflammatory posts demanding that the rest of us pour excoriation down upon MS for a 'con'!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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How do you know he hasn't???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I'd have remembered - wouldn't I[^]?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I was just thinking that it might be a case where 11720681 equals 23741???
As for shows with amnesia, I would much rather go in the opposite direction and watch the extremely wonderful Poppy Montgomery[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 16-Feb-16 10:23am.
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Why are you so rigorously defending Win 10?
He's entitled to his opinion, and there's more than a few folks here that think Win 10 is a steaming pile of defecation.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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