Bugs and Suggestions

Colin Angus Mackay31-May-07 8:09

Colin Angus Mackay

31-May-07 8:09

bpoojas wrote:
Sorry 4 using short cuts, but i think all were clear to you...

It is simply unprofessional. I don't want to spend extra time having to translate some "short cuts". I'd rather read well formed sentences. And the English language already has recognisable and gramatically correct ways of writing shortcuts. They are called contractions and come with an apostrophe.

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Dave Kreskowiak31-May-07 8:25

31-May-07 8:25

bpoojas wrote:
Sorry 4 using short cuts,

bpoojas wrote:
still uf you need to waste time in looking for errors in language here, then must say, programmers dont count Cosmetic errors

It has NOTHING to do with looking for errors. Using SMS speak makes your posts harder to read! Especially for people who don't speak English as their primary language.

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Dave Kreskowiak3-Jun-07 7:05

3-Jun-07 7:05

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar4-Jun-07 19:29

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

4-Jun-07 19:29

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
Using SMS speak makes your posts harder to read

Even those days have become bygone. With powerful dictionaries in the mobile, text messages do now can be well-formed valid English sentences without any obscurity or ambiguity of any kind. I don't think any providers in the word nowdays restrict the length of SMS too.

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Dave Kreskowiak31-May-07 8:31

31-May-07 8:31

Yeah, the world needs yet another *nix discussion board. It's as if the other 25,000,000 boards out there haven't already discussed everything about *nix again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again ... continue until you puke.

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MatrixCoder31-May-07 11:23

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31-May-07 11:23

Yeah, the world needs yet another *nix MS discussion board. It's as if the other 25,000,000 boards out there haven't already discussed everything about *nix MS again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again ... continue until you puke.

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Dave Kreskowiak31-May-07 17:13

31-May-07 17:13

That would be funny if this was a Unix board, but since it's not... Hmmm | :|

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Expert Coming1-Jun-07 22:54

Expert Coming

1-Jun-07 22:54

More people are confused about running *nix than almost any other OS I have ever seen. Linux has over 1,000 distributions and all are installed and configured differently. AND because almost all are not commercial, they have little to no support, so the little support you do get comes from inexperienced people that understand it just enough to barely set it up themselves. I have seen more people have Linux nightmares than anyone will ever see happen to Windows users. I may be a little bias, but this is the truth.

I know I am going to be slammed for this post but any Linux user than slams me for this is, for one, on the wrong forum Smile | :)

, two, most likely using a commercial distribution, or three, one of the people who can barely set it up themselves.

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MatrixCoder2-Jun-07 13:02

MatrixCoder

2-Jun-07 13:02

Well the people who can barley set them selves up are less experienced users who shouldn't be using Linux. Linux is more for power users, not the everyday user.

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Jeffrey Walton3-Jun-07 10:21

Jeffrey Walton

3-Jun-07 10:21

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again

Reply notification emails: broken

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar4-Jun-07 19:30

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4-Jun-07 19:30

At least with respect to Web Development overlap, you can use 'Web Development' forum. PHP, Perl etc. are occasionally addressed here.

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C^hris L^osinger30-May-07 10:25

C^hris L^osinger

30-May-07 10:25

there's a malformed HREF in the link to the message in question. ex.:

Do not hit 'reply' to this email: To reply, click <a target=_blankhref="http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=xxxxxxx#xxxxxxxxxxx">here</a>.

there needs to be a space between the 'target=_blank' and the 'href='

Re: Reply notification emails: broken

Chris Maunder30-May-07 10:38

Chris Maunder

30-May-07 10:38

Weird - I've never seen that. The notification for this email doesn't actually insert a target=_blank (at least not that I can see).

I'm scared...

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Re: Reply notification emails: broken

C^hris L^osinger30-May-07 10:44

C^hris L^osinger

30-May-07 10:44

hmm. interesting. i suppose it could be the webmail client i'm using - trying to make sure the links don't open on top of the mail message. i just assumed it passed the HTML as-is to my browser.

i'll investigate further.

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Suggestion: resolved

Rage29-May-07 23:40

Rage

29-May-07 23:40

I think it would be nice for a post starting a thread in a forum to be marked as "Solved" by his author, so that if he got the answer to his question, he could signal it.

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Re: Suggestion: resolved

Colin Angus Mackay30-May-07 5:13

Colin Angus Mackay

30-May-07 5:13

That is already possible by the user pressing the modify button and then changing the title of the post - However very few do that. Very few people even take the time to thank the person that helped them - so I don't think they are going to take the time to mark a question as solved.

Re: Suggestion: resolved [Resolved!]

Mark Salsbery31-May-07 9:00

Mark Salsbery

31-May-07 9:00

Thanks Colin!

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Sebastien Ros29-May-07 21:57

Sebastien Ros

29-May-07 21:57

As an author it would be ineresting to be see the distribution of votes with a bar chart stating for the number of 1, 2, ... 5.

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1 2 3 4 5

I had this in mind as I suspect some visitors to put a 1 on some articles they want to see going down in the stats (i.e. monthly competition, best articles, ...)

Any opinion ?

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Giorgi Dalakishvili30-May-07 2:44

Giorgi Dalakishvili

30-May-07 2:44

Yes I agree to you. It is a great idea. Some users are voting one just because they see some articles as competitors of their articles

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Jeffrey Walton30-May-07 11:17

Jeffrey Walton

30-May-07 11:17

Hi Sebastien,

Sebastien Ros wrote:
...to see the distribution of votes

I agree.

Another thing that bothers me - those who vote to bring an article's rating down, with no explaination of why (were the technical deficiencies, etc). With that said, I 100% agree with the anonymity provided by the system.

Jeff

Rage31-May-07 0:17

Rage

31-May-07 0:17

I think that only the sum of the votes and the number of voters are saved in the DB (or so would I have done it to spare some space), so that the information you require is not available anymore. But i am not 100% positive about that.

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Sebastien Ros31-May-07 0:29

Sebastien Ros

31-May-07 0:29

John Simmons said: Votes are weighted according to the voters member status. Platinum members have more weight applied to their votes than do gold, for instance.

Thus you must save some more information, i.e. the weighted number together with the number of votes. Don't you ?

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Rage31-May-07 7:42

Rage

31-May-07 7:42

Sebastien Ros wrote:
Thus you must save some more information

Not necessarily: A is gold(5 for instance), B is bronze(3). C is normal. N number of votes, S=sum, R=Article Note

A votes 5, N=0+5=5, S=25, R=25/5=5
B votes 4, N=5+3=8, S=29, R=26/6=...
C votes 1, N=8+1=9, S=30, R=30/9=...

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