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our global expansion is not going as planned...
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When I scanned this, I read "..lowest IQ of...". Well that's rude ... Oh. 
This is poking fun at me, not at either of you!
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Sometimes when I see the questions in QA I wonder if there's an inverse function of some kind...
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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i'm a lot less active than i used to be. but, i still lurk.
i think i was here the day CP went live.
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I got grandfathered in on my original account, but have gone through a few accounts as I switched jobs. I honestly do not remember how I originally found the predecessor, though. CompuServe???
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I can't speak for other newbies, but I googled for the answer to some question (I can't remember what), saw an article on this site, "CodeProject", and found that I had to register in order to download the sample code. The rest is history. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That probably the case with most. But if you see, this means - you knew how to Google, you knew hot to find what you seek and then went ahead.
If this would be the path for the newbies then how/why a handful of them seems not so good with Google?
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Pretty much the same for me. Googled a topic and found some articles about it on this site.
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Sandeep Mewara wrote:
if(Google)
{
what(keywords?);
}
Try this:
How to (something stupid) using (unsuited language)
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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And that would give handful of them the answer what they seek for. So, with the left ones - search words were so bad that they did not get a helpful related article but come to know of CP and ask query here?
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More likely that they found some answer, could not get it to work and then posted the same question for a millionth time.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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They search "where can't I post programming questions?"
About 1999 I was doing a job that I was 100% not prepared to do. In this site I found a lot of good help. I remember searching for VC++ help... function names, how to do this and that...
  and as always thanks to all who have helped! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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I was shocked, when hiring supposedly senior devs in Singapore, to find some had not heard of CP (or SO). Then again when asked what they used for reference sites some looked at me funny and shrugged, they did not get the gig.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Then again when asked what they used for reference sites some looked at me funny and shrugged, they did not get the gig
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I can't remember how I found the site - possibly through one of the many "newsletter" emails I used to be subscribed to.
The earliest reference I can find is a November 2002 conversation with Duncan Mackenzie from Microsoft, where I'd recommended a CodeProject article[^] in the comments to one of his blog posts. 
(The old link is broken now, but the article is still up: Windows XP style Collapsible Panel Bar[^])
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: I found the site - possibly through one of the many "newsletter" emails I used to be subscribed to.
Super - you are one of the super oldies!
Richard Deeming wrote: The earliest reference I can find is a November 2002 conversation with Duncan Mackenzie from Microsoft, where I'd recommended a CodeProject article[^] in the comments to one of his blog posts.
That's awesome how articles are still there almost 20 years.
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: How does newbies come to know about CodeProject?
I would assume most find it the way I did...a Google search landing at SO with links to articles here. So it was back in 2006 when I found just what I was looking for here in an article. To download, I had to sign up and started to receive the daily newsletter. It was a year or so after that before I finally discovered the Lounge.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Agree - case with most of us. But I was more on how newbies create login and post questions right away.
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Referral from a local dotNET guru. I am more Java oriented, but if you use Microsoft servers, you will need some dotNET fluency. Daily news has kept me hooked.
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Word of mouth is a strong medium.
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There is only one good, proper and true way to become aware of The Code Project: Divine Inspiration.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Divine and Inspiration both? 
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You enter a few web queries looking for information, and this site codeproject.com keeps coming up in the list. Eventually, either you get curious or you don't.
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SeattleC++ wrote: Eventually, either you get curious or you don't.
And it's that person's loss if they don't.
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