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Just skip those questions, or ask for clarification.
I'm often enough seeing questions other people don't understand, but I'm able to answer. But the other way around is admittedly more common.
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Some of them are phrased very badly, but it is sometimes possible to read between the lines and work it out. Generally speaking, the worse the phrasing, the simpler the problem!
If you don't understand it, ignore it, or ask for clarification. What I hate is when people decide "this s a rubbish question - I'll vote to close it" instead of getting it clarified.
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Good advice, thanks!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I also noticed that the questions seem to get more difficult, maybe a good sign as this might be interpreted that we trained the newbies well, and now they don't need to ask beginners questions anymore.
Another theory of mine is that the programming landscape is getting more and more diversified, and we oldies can not be expected to be knowledgeable on the plethora of subjects ...
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If you want to feel a little better, post some really obscure questions that only you'll know the answers to and then come back in 10 minutes and answer them yourself.
Here are some suggested questions:
What is Cornelius Henning's favorite OS?
Answer: VAX / OpenVMS (we will accept either answer)
What is Cornelius Henning's favorite OS to hate on:
Answer : Same as everyone else, Win10.
Just make sure you can answer these questions correctly or it's going to be really painful.
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Don't get me started...
Q&A was a bad idea from the start.
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Is a Yule Log a record of who has been naughty, and who has been nice?
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in that case burning it would be easier than doing pennance
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I thought it was Christmas dinner after it had been processed.
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Big + for that, as it wipes away any doubt that "It's the Thought That Counts"
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I wood imagine so, as they are flameous for these types of inflammatory gestures, as least a forest I can tell.
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no, actually a record of who has been knotty or nice...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Boadly speaking, I'm not sure we cone properly opine on the matter.
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How can you axe such a thing!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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A certain deceased actor comes to mind... Quick! Mind Bleach!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Tried to link to Hosted Mysql db and whilst I can link, connect to DB and tables, see data and the columns, when one tries to Bind to connection, it then say sorry , I cannot read the Information Schema! Why does it need to if it has jsy read all the data it needs? Being Hosted I do not have access to the Schemas.
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You might have better luck getting an answer by posting this question in the Quick Answers forum or the appropriate programming forum(s).
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mysql isn't logical, it's relational. (- usually goes much easier if you are nice to it.)
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So send it a Christmas card, invite it round for dinner on the big day?
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are we ready for this?
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It's already been done. Apparently, it doesn't take long for the bot to start acting like a human troll, based on interactions with our society.
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I think the real event horizon will be when intelligence meets social media whether or not it is artificial.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Agreed!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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mixing up a bucket of matter with another filled anti-matter may prove less deadly
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Intelligence of any type and Social Media are orthogonal.
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