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Some of the suggestions offered, to help the inflicted, seem like they wouldn't work because it would still require some level of effort from the inflicted person.
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Oh, bite me. 
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I'll ignore that simply because you're a key stakeholder.
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These puns are getting a bit wooden
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Can you please help me understand what this thread is all about? 
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It's the diagnosis of the CodeProject Q&A Forum.. 
[People asking questions without having switched on their brain before = Help Vampires]
Recursion: see Recursion.
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I got that - Did you get that I was being facetious? 
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No, you caught me off guard - outside the Q&A forum some filters are suspended in order to recover 
Recursion: see Recursion.
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It's about those rissoles in Q&A, who think they're so smart because they answer questions.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You only need to be smarter than the inquirer, give it a try 
Recursion: see Recursion.
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Ah, but you can never really tell how smart someone is.
I can run faster than he; that's what really counts.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wow. That is one of the best uses of words that I've seen in a long time.
Extreme kudos to the inventor.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Haha. In fact, I've felt I have been afflicted like these poor souls, a few times in the last ten days.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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We all have our idiot days -- I've been known to be an uncomprehending idiot on certain topics for weeks, even, until the right penny dropped into the right slot.
It's when it's permanent that you have to worry.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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All it takes is a moment or three of - alcohol free - calm, and things start rushing back into my stress-addled brain. Yesterday morning, under heavy pressure to deliver a working test version to my client as he returned from a long weekend. I had everything wrapped up nicely, including my hard-won GUI for the damned WCF/Windows Service. I told him, at 7am I would have it ready at 9am, and then I made a seemingly innocuous code change, clicked the "Update service reference" menu item, only to fall straight into the flaming pits of hell. I had been using the existing reference for several days without updating, and everything was working fine, but suddenly the generation of the WCF proxy was failing, outputting an empty .cs file. If I try adding the same service reference to a new project, it works fine. 
So I set to work just "manually" getting the other side of the app working, filled with stress and fear of doom (getting fired), and drew complete blanks on nearly everything else until around 5pm, when I had demonstrated that side to be working. Sitting down to relax and watch TV, I was suddenly filled with inspiration for diagnosing the problem, and I think today has some calm still left for me to do that.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Is this an attempt to revamp QA's image? 
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I was going to post a new thread asking for suggestions on how to build a forum, but I don't think I'll bother now
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Never heard this before but the term "Help Vampire" is spot on! I called them lazy and ignorant an-alphabets.
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I look back at my posts when I was young and naive and pull this face
But I think there is a difference between being naive about what you want to do and asking for too much help and doing so, but never really learning from it.
I try to be helpful with my responses these days. Give a idea of what to do. Reference docs and link them. Gently shove them to solving the problem for themselves.
I may even post snippets of code, but if anyone asks me "Can you pls post code?" I fly off the wall, sacrifice a puppy and a kitten and write a letter to Satan asking to reserve a special place in hell for them.
Then post code that won't work off the bat, but should work with some thought based on suggestions I have previously posted. If they then say the code doesn't work... I talk myself off the ledge.
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Some kind of negative publicity which works positively, just like Hollywood. Yesterday, I read a article about a new top domain name ".sucks" (not sure it is real), which would serve the same purpose.
TOMZ_KV
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Put this in your Chrome browser's url address and click enter
chrome://net-internals/#dns
I apologize if you already know this. Yes, I have been living under a rock, for all these years. 
edit: it will bring up a utility page, first.
modified 17-Mar-15 14:06pm.
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