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Didn't you once give me a hard time about writing statements in the negative, and that writing them in the positive was easier to read? 
Seriously though: what cane are you thinking of that satisfies "is acceptable if it can be used" but fails "is not acceptable if it can't be used"?
As to the rule, it's specifically there to stop the site being flooded by evey man and his dog writing articles promoting their paid application. Imagine if the site were opened up to articles on commercial third party products: the list of new articles would be long, repetitive and probably have lots of FREE! in the titles.
No thanks.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Didn't you once
Most probably yes. Negatives should be avoided whenever possible as they can only lead to confusion.
Chris Maunder wrote: what cane are you thinking of ...
Rules are limitations by their very nature; your statement did not impose any limitation, all it did was stating that something was acceptable. Except in totalitarian regimes, everything is allowed, unless it is expressly forbidden.
The most discrete fix could be:
An article is acceptable only if it can be used on its own using the tools, libraries and components that a developer working in the given technology could reasonably be expected to own, or which is free (as in no charge).
And now I have to find a way to sneak "free" into my next article's title... which may be hard as the subject has been decided on already.
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I started to give an example of "sh*t happens" regarding the stuxnet virus disrupting his country's attempts to generate weapons grade uranium - a complete unplanned-for event. It was all typed out, and I was ready to hit submit, and then thought better of it.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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When an article is approved, all votes/comments gathered for that article are removed.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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Tye right-side panel (where the latest lounge messages are shown, along with articles needing approval, the latest surevy, etc, is too narrow. The tabs for the articles needing approval are wrapping to a second row.
Using FireFox 3.6.13 or IE8
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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is OK in FF3.6, however IE7 seems to leave the rightmost half inch empty for no good reason.
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I'm using FF 3.6, and that's where I noticed it.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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Maybe one of us needs a barrage of CTRL/F5's?
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This[^] looks more like an advertisement.
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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This post[^] appears to be attached to the wrong previous one in the thread. It should be up in the boo substhread somewhere, not on Tim's[^] a half dozen indent levels farther to the left.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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something similar has been signaled occasionally, maybe once a week. I had it happen to me once too. AFAIK exact circumstances are unknown.
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Indeed, I've reported this myself. Chris said it was some timing issue or something (I assume it was either dismissed as an unimportant ghost issue or was added to the list of bugs to fix on CP's 20th anniversary). The one I reported had 2 posts that were exact duplicates... one was in the right place, the other was a few down and not indented correctly according to its parent (it was indented at the same level as its duplicate).
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Good spot Dan.
It was in the right place earlier this morning.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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See the link in this post[^]
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It seems he just asking formal question to publish his Ad.
Chris will show him what is page rank. 
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Sneaky. Thanks for finding this Goutam
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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For a second there, voting in the Lounge was not sticking. Whenever I'd vote and refresh (CP button, not browser), the rating would go back to one less and what it was before. Never seen that happen.
Update:
Now I'm getting a dialog telling me what I (re-)voted and what it is. Ugh!
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That is not a bug, it is a hiccup of the system caused by votes not being synchronized amongst servers right away; when your second view is served by another server, you'll see an earlier situation.
May I suggest you stop worrying so much about votes and reputation, and start paying attention to the actual content of this fine site.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: May I suggest you stop worrying so much about votes and reputation, and start paying attention to the actual content of this fine site.
Yes, mother!
However, I've never seen that issue with synchronization, so I wasn't sure if it was a bug or not. I'll go sit in the corner now. 
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Amen to that.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Sean / Chris, two unrelated matters:
- Could you check whether this[^] article looks like this[^]? If it does, let me edit it so I can fix the screwed-up apostrophes.
- When you submit an article with <code> tags followed by a space, does the space get deleted by the article editor? Happened here[^].
Thanks!
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Indivara wrote: When you submit an article with <code> tags followed by a space, does the space get deleted by the article editor? Happened here[^].
Seems to be a recent bug. Someone else reported it a couple of days back.
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A temporary hack (which I won't recommend except as a temporary approach) is to use in lieu of the space, until they fix the bug (which I assume is an extra Trim() call that's removing the space somewhere).
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Didn't notice the previous report, and that one seemed rather hard to believe. I thought I'd messed up the the article. 
Wonder whether it has been fixed yet? Testing 1 2 3...
(forget the hack, I'll just wait till it is fixed)
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Test looks OK here
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