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Thanks for taking care of this.
I make no apologies for my answering style. Crap questions get crap answers (as life has already taught most people).
I'm kinda surprised nobody has asked me yet what my spirit animal is.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 7-Nov-16 13:19pm.
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You don't have to apologize for your answering style, but I'd ask you to refrain from posting a non-answer.
And I'll bite: What's your spirit animal?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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It alternates, based on my mood. Usually, it's "jelly donut", but today, it's been "Death" for most of the day.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: get crap answers Then you shouldn't complain that crap answers get downvoted.
Not sure if those are the ones you are referring to or not, so pardon my butting in.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The 1 votes were being given regardless of the answer. But they will disappear. I think. Probably by the time John's spirit animal goes back to jelly doughnut.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Sean Ewington wrote: 1 votes were being given regardless of the answer 1 I looked at deserved a 1, in my opinion.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Funny, I don't generally vote on answers, because it's up to the person posting the question to evaluate the answers.
Beyond that, none of my answers warrant a 1 vote, however, a lot of the questions do.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: because it's up to the person posting the question to evaluate the answers. Really? I'm not sure why you think that. If that were the case then CP would only allow the poster to vote on an answer. For me, it is helpful when I come across an answer to see that it has a bunch of upvotes, or vice versa. It's a quick check to see how viable the answer is.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If we don't let them know the questions are crap, how will they learn?
At the same time, there's no reason we can't inject a considerable amount of sarcasm into the resulting answers.
And as Sean already stated, he was down-voting without regard for whether or not I was providing an actual answer, or just being a smart ass.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I try to remain positive, despite all of the evidence that points to the fact that I'm wasting my time.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Good, a steady hand helps with your aim.
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In Texas, "gun control" is another term for "hitting what you aim at".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I will never forget the story you told about your yard sale (at least I think it was) and the guy who thought you (and your missus) were crazy. I think the story was the cop who attended was asking about your firearms and you said you practice gun control. When he asked what that meant, precisely, you said "I don't miss".
We admire you, John. From a distance. A safe distance.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I thought I'd try to find that thread, but something weird is happening.
I think the thread is "My Wife Is Funny", but when I find it with search, and click on any of the messages linked to the thread, if throws me at the most recent lounge post in fully expanded mode.
EDIT ================
The thread is actually here:
The Lounge[^]
I think my all-time favorite thread was when that guy insulted himself to save me the time/trouble. If I remember, it had something to do with a Quran article. Copious hilarity ensued... Sadly, the article appears to have been deleted, and with it, the message section.
Update on browser issues - the problem described above happens in IE11 and FireFox, but Chrome works.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 8-Nov-16 16:14pm.
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Please delete my account. No longer needed.
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Go to My Settings[^], and select the "Close my account" checkbox.
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The code pasted in Unable to understand the behaviour of fgets[^] and other questions, seems to send the formatter into a drug induced frenzy. A number of ="" strings added where (I assume) there should be newlines. It never seems to happen with code that I post, so I wonder if it is some odd UTF character that is the culprit?
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Near the end there is an unencoded <, causing the parser to think that the code is HTML and converting all following things to attributes.
Simple as that.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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That is still not correct if the code is already within <pre> tags.
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The formatter here can be very weird sometimes. I have seen this happen many times recently. It's caused by the new HTML sanitizer Chris is using.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: It's caused by the new HTML sanitizer Which is exactly why I'm reporting the problem.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: formatter into a drug induced frenzy
We've changed the prescription. Open angle brackets inside PRE should be normal. Ish.
<hows this one for size>
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Perfect.
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