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I occasionally get some really good jokes sent to me that I'd like to share. Most of the time however, I refrain myself from pestering other people who don't like jokes (grumpy old men!  ). How about a new forum for this particular purpose?
It would also be nice if there were some kind of rules for this forum. For instance, each subject should contain a string like this: [x, y]. x would rate the quality of the joke on a scale from 1 to 5. y would rate the profanity/disgust level of the joke on a scale from 1 to 5. A larger y could mean that the frequency of profane words is higher or that the punch line is revolting to pretty much all religions, cultures and societies. 
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Well, there's this...
Shog9
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The Army's on Ecstasy, so they say -
I read all about it in USA Today.
They stepped up urine testing to make it go away,
'cause it's hard to kill the enemy on ol' MDMA...- Oysterhead
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That would save us from the "pleeeeeze I need this-and-that application, now." messages
I keep submitting “VB” as a Priority-1 bug, but apparently no one here knows how to fix it. Nick Hodapp, Semicolon
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Andreas Saurwein wrote:
That would save us from the "pleeeeeze I need this-and-that application, now." messages
But who would check that forum then? 
Nick Parker
May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead. - Irish Blessing
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Hey, only regulars would know this. Maybe it could be added to the Noise filter too? 
I keep submitting “VB” as a Priority-1 bug, but apparently no one here knows how to fix it. Nick Hodapp, Semicolon
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It would be kind of like the "In" basket that you would have for documents on your desk, that is actually the wastebasket
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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Paul Watt wrote:
It would be kind of like the "In" basket that you would have for documents on your desk, that is actually the wastebasket
Then if we could only add a link in each forum to send message threads to the "in" basket when we receive homework.
Nick Parker
May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead. - Irish Blessing
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It would be quite fun to see if we could still do that "This is normalisation" stuff or if old age has set in prematurely
Deploying a web application without understanding security is roughly equivalent to driving a car without seatbelts - down a slippery road, over a monstrous chasm, with no brakes, and the throttle jammed on full. Hacking Exposed - Web Applications. Joel Scambray & Mike Shema
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Megan Forbes wrote:
fun to see if we could still do that "This is normalisation" stuff
Nomalization, what is that.
Megan Forbes wrote:
or if old age has set in prematurely
Hey, I still a young whiper snapper.
Nick Parker
May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead. - Irish Blessing
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According to you, what is ratio of developers who would get the point if you told them about the ironical "homework" posts? I believe that if you intend to do that instead of answering raw questions with raw answers, you would get a lot of  , and even insults.
Back to real work : D-26.
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Sorry, I dont get you. Must be the time or I am just to dumb already. What did you mean? 
I keep submitting “VB” as a Priority-1 bug, but apparently no one here knows how to fix it. Nick Hodapp, Semicolon
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Let's get it simpler : many of the posters will resent you if instead of answering their technical questions, you start (like Christian Graus did recently) telling them first that their questions look like homework and they should managed it on their own.
As for my personal experience, I have already seen that with a couple of guys : I wondered about the usefulness of their questions (sometimes it makes me wonder if they have written a single line of code in their life) and told them about it. Their answer then ? mere insult.
Back to real work : D-26.
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PS : that's the second time in a row I get an "undeliverable mail" message in my mailbox.
Back to real work : D-26.
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At first glance I think this is a good idea. But I dont think that these people will limit their posts to just the homework forum. I mean they ignore the No programming questions please request in the forum.
And like someone else stated, I dont think that many people here are all that interested in doing someone elses homework. I think the best thing that can be done is to ignore these posts.
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Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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If they had to show the effort they had put into the question/problem and explained where their stuck, then I think its OK to help them. Its when they show they have done nothing on the problem themselves that you don't help them.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
I have a terminal disease. Its called life!
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I agree - we all had to start somewhere, but that does include trying to work things out for ourselves. When someone gets to the limit of their current expertise there is no harm in pushing them along in the right direction a little.
Deploying a web application without understanding security is roughly equivalent to driving a car without seatbelts - down a slippery road, over a monstrous chasm, with no brakes, and the throttle jammed on full. Hacking Exposed - Web Applications. Joel Scambray & Mike Shema
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Recently I've found a very cool feature on www.gotdotnet.com[^] - workspaces.
Workspace is an Internet development environment where developers can create host and manage their projects. CPians will be able to develop their apps in teams.
I thought it would be great to have something similar here on CP. 
Is it possible?
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Michael Mac wrote:
I thought it would be great to have something similar here on CP
Yeah it would be, got a free server to give to CP for this?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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Paul Watson wrote:
Yeah it would be, got a free server to give to CP for this?
well if we all donate £1 - with 50,000+ that will be no problem
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I agree.
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Paul Watson wrote:
got a free server to give to CP for this?
Unfortunately, I don't have. 
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Or in otherwords, it's a sourceforge[^] ripoff. No, I didn't mean that. Um. It's an example of Microsoft's innovation. Yes, that's right.
(SF isn't limited to writing GNU licensed Linux apps, btw, although they do have to be open source of some description)
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Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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If you look at it[^], no smilarity with the "real" Workspaces. Heck, Git wasn't even invented back then
Damn. I wanted to reply to the Thread[^] which brought me here 
The console is a black place
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Just a reminder of the fact that people installing VC7 will not be able to run executable demos from most CP articles. Indeed, most of the CP articles in the repository contain MFC6-aware compiled executables, which may not be installed on the user's machine.
Also of note : a lot of people claim VC6 and VC7 compatibility in their articles. This is most of the time untrue. They just distribute .dsw and .dsp files, which indeed can be automatically converted to VC7, but compiling the code is a totally different matter. The code wil often fail miserably because of ATL changes or CString changes. Here is an exemple :
Now the VC7 compiler enforces the C++ standard and does not allow a const CString be used as a CString & reference param in a method call. This does not bring a warning, that's a full fledge error. There is not even a warning when compiling this under VC6. And this is very often used in source code.
I believe there are enough troubles in here when you actually unzip the files and TRY them to start adding "VCx-compliant" logos.
May be this reveals how little people actually use the source code. Or those people just handle it without complaining at all, and providing no feedback as well. I am not sure either way this is the way we should go.
Of course, as a reminder, when you have a VC++7 project, you can convert it back automatically using this free tool[^].
Back to real work : D-27.
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void F( CString& s ) { s.MakeLower(); }
const CString x("BOB");
F(x);
error C2664: 'F' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const class CString' to 'class CString &'VC catches that error just fine.
You can also get the MFC 6 redistributables from http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vc/mfc42.cab[^]
--Mike--
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