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As many of you have probably noticed, I have not been as active on here since moving to Qatar in early 2015. I just took a look at the Who's Who to see how far I had slipped down the list and was very surprised to see that it wasn't actually that much, all in all only about 6 places. Not that it is of any really importance of course!
Have the heavy hitters really all gone quiet lately? Or is there just a few at the top end who are really just all moving together....
I know that DD has obviously gone quiet on here, and now fills my newsfeed on FB with dog pics and politics. 
What is everyone else up to? @OriginalGriff you must have all the gossip........
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Well DD has grown up and taken his toys, DeathByChocolate has runaway, Nagy still around and so is Griff, John Simmons shows up now and again. But not a lot has changed, saw some of your posts (sand storm is interesting looked like you were on Tatooine!)
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glennPattonInThePUB wrote: sand storm is interesting looked like you were on Tatooine!
My eyes the next morning didn't think it was interesting! 
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Well, apparently someone has run over Paul Robinson on "Neighbours" after he blew up a hotel according to Herself...
But apart from that I know nuffink! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: after he blew up a hotel
Allegedly blew up a hotel. 'E wuz framed! That mare Terese will have some explaining to do when the truth comes out, I can tell you!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Don't tell me, tell Herself!
I just hear it in the background while she watches it.
(And think of this...Androids[^])
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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DaveAuld wrote: Who's Who
That's how I keep score too. ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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I'm kind of afraid to ask, Dave, but what does "Who's Who" in this context refer to ?
Glad to hear you're okay in Qatar.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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People must really get into CP momentarily then get distracted with other things. I've been in and out for a while now too.
I was really into the site when I was doing a lot of Windows targeted development, but now I'm just about 100% in the Linux side. This specific site doesn't seem to target the Linux users quite as much, I still do come in and lurk from time to time but def not as much as I used to.
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Welcome back, Dave!
I've been absent a lot, as well - no time for programming projects. I do think of you now and then, when I visit the maternal unit in the PRC; there's a road I pass in Rancho California named Auld Road. 
I've quit my job working for a moron, and I'm studying gunsmithing. I also plan to do some machine shop work, model making and prototyping stuff, since I've invested a healthy chunk into metal-working tools. If one or the other doesn't work out, I'll probably be flipping burgers for the rest of my life. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: I'll probably be flipping burgers for the rest of my life
Could be worse[^]
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DaveAuld wrote: I have not been as active
When this happens, it is useful to promote mental clarity using essential oils.
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UnlockSecrets4WeightLoss wrote: using essential oils.
Where have you been applying them?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I hope you mean bacon fat.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I had hoped that I could keep rep points/1000 equal to my age .. but my rep points are lagging behind !
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I'm not in the top ones (does that even matter!), though I am a bit less active on CP these days since I am pursuing my Master's in Computer Science degree, which has caused a huge amount of lag in the reputation graph these days. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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DaveAuld wrote: I just took a look at the Who's Who to see how far I had slipped down the list and was very surprised to see that it wasn't actually that much, all in all only about 6 places.
The top of the list is very rarified; actually getting near it takes an insane amount of no lifing on QA or being active for many years; as a result slacking off results in a very slow drop. My engagement level (as measured by rep points) dropped to about 1/3rd to 1/2 of its previous value about 4 years ago (I went cold turkey for a few months because I decided I was spending too much time here); and I've only just fallen to page 6 (from hanging out on the border between pages 1 and 2 for a few years).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I think I just got tired of what felt like paid upvotes ...
Articles and other stuff used to be a lot more interesting - and to be fair: I'm sure there are still people who put an effort into it, but now most articles contains less than 50 lines of text - and perhaps something like a 100 lines of source code, often looking suspiciously like stuff I've seen time and again ...
I guess this is why Sean posted the CodeProject Plagiarism FAQ[^] ...
Espen Harlinn
Chief Architect - Powel AS
Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra
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Espen Harlinn wrote: I guess this is why Sean posted the CodeProject Plagiarism FAQ
Problem is they don't read them and don't care!
I know what you mean, I tend to read Articles from names I know are going to be decent articles, as a result, probably don't see many good articles from others that have made the effort.
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As this thread is on page 2 of the lounge nearly 2 days later, shows how the activity has fallen.
This space for rent
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Yep........were is everyone hiding now!
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I fell away because I find a lot of content in the lounge to be uninteresting now and the forums are slowly stultifying. QA is a mess, albeit not as bad as StackOverflow, but people don't come here as a first choice anymore. I'm on a Facebook Xamarin group and people are advised to go to SO - a lot of the people advising this haven't heard of CP and, when they come here, they come back unimpressed. Still, at least there are some great articles; granted the number of crud ones means that I get to spend more time going through a back catalog of good ones, but occasionally a gem makes it through.
This space for rent
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I have a friend that has a web site for his business. In the least couple of weeks, when you google search the domain name "twotenperformance", the first link in the search results shows up as "www.twotenperformance.com", but the description of the link is for cheap chinese sports jerseys. When you hover over the link, it shows what you'd expect (www.twotenperformance.com), but when you click it, it takes you to "http://www.jerseyssupply.top/#www.twotenperformance.com" (note the end of the url).
If you actually type in the "twotenperformance.com" domain name in the address bar, it takes you to the appropriate site.
I've tried this on several computers, a couple of phones, and an ipad, so it happens in all browsers (Chrome, FireFox, IE, Edge, and Safari) on all operating systems, and in the all search engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo) I've tried, so it's not a virus on the given machine.
I've never seen anything like this before.
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It will be the clever spammers manipulating the robots to drive traffic to their sites.
It is a pain in the hoop. Bings annoncement last week appears to be the search engine trying to minimise these poor results and limit exposure to consumers. I was in a hurry one day trying to fix my daughters laptop and got hit by one of these bogus links (it was for Google Chrome) and ended up installing malware on the machine.
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