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β Christopher Hitchens
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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As a new member of this community, I would like to get to know some of you. I researched 11 different online groups dedicated to serving those who develop software. This is the one I chose to join. I looked at Hashnode, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, and Reddit to name a few. While these communities can be a great resource in different ways, CodeProject looks to be the best choice. That explains why I am here, but I'm curious to know who you are, and why you choose to be here. What compels you to be a member of this community?
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Hi Steve!
I'm known here as OriginalGriff or OG, because my real world name and all the variants I could think of were taken when I registered. I found this place when looking for help with a problem I had in the early days of learning C# / .NET and got involved with a few discussions. I stayed because they were a friendly bunch (with little or none of the elitism that plagues SO) and many members know what they are talking about.
It's popularly believed here that I'm a gestalt mind spread over several bodies, but in practice I learned to type a long time ago and got quite good at it which looks like the same thing to the casual viewer.
Welcome aboard - feel free to spit on the mat, but don't call the cat a b*****d - he's sensitive about that. And has an account here ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: but in practice I learned to type a long time ago and got quite good at it which looks like the same thing to the casual viewer. Is what I would say if I were a gestalt mind spread over several bodies.
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Damn. He broke the code ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: many members know what they are talking about.
I hope you're not accusing me of that?
I bash my head against the keyboard until it compiles.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: I bash my head against the keyboard until it compiles.
Your head or the keyboard?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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When it comes to the grand scheme of things, I haven't a clue how the universe works. I've done many faceplants onto keyboards in my time. I don't know if these faceplants did anything good for me, but maybe if I took the time to repeatedly bash my head into my keyboard it would eventually pay off. When you bash your head onto the keyboard, is it the keyboard that eventually complies, or is it your head? For me, it's usually my head that doesn't comply. I'll take your advice, and find out for myself. You might be on to something.
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It's the computer, or rather the code. I wrote "compiles" rather than "complies"
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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lol! I'm going to try this. Every time I compile code, I will bang my head on the keyboard. If that makes it work better, I'm all for it. I wonder if I should wear a helmet. A bicycle helmet would fall apart, so I may go with a motorcycle helmet.
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Or complies ( sorry it's my CCC head )
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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When it comes to C#, I'm in the same boat that you were in. It's a great language to know, but it takes time to fully understand, as w/ any programming language. If you want to keep up to speed, languages like C# are vital. I can't say I'm entirely familiar with it, but I can still use it in countless ways to produce all sorts of things.
Thank you for the welcome, OG. Once I find out where the mat is, I'll be sure to spit on it. I'm assuming that spitting on the mat is a good thing, but insulting certain cats is a reason for peril. I'm not sure what all that means, but maybe I'll figure it out with some time.
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C# is (still) a pretty simple language, though it's getting a lot more complex as these things do. When I started an experienced developer could learn the language itself in an afternoon, no problem - now it'd take a day, maybe two to be thorough. Learning the framework(s) behind it that are essential to use it? Months!
It's a quote: A Bertram Chandler - Liberty Hall[^]. The pTerry version is better, but a bit too short and "real world" to be recognized as a quote*.
* Grebo was a b*****d though: The late, great pTerry - Lords and Ladies Greebo had spent an irritating two minutes in that box. Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Welcome!
I registered many years ago because I was starting out in software development (VB.NET and WinForms at the time) and needed some help.
Google pointed me to an article here on CP and the author, who unfortunately passed away since, was very helpful.
It even inspired me to write some articles myself!
These days I mostly stick around in the lounge and my contributions to this site have deteriorated to bad jokes and anecdotes
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And harassing witches!
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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When it comes to harassing witches, Monty Python comes to mind for some reason. I'm thinking of a scene in The Holy Grail where a group of people resorted to nonsense in an effort to justify themselves that she was actually a witch. That movie is so funny.
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The funniest part of that is the pseudo-Socratic questioning performed by the knight.
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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I wouldn't have to if you just braced your code correctly
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A forum without bad jokes isn't worth being a part of, right? I'm sure I'll do my part in that area as well, so you're not alone in your humor.
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Hey, welcome from the oldest guy around.
Great place this.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Going on 75 in a few months, I believe I have you there
Wine gets better when it has a chance to Age.
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