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Besides which, no self-respecting redneck would live in a cracker box POS like that pictured... That's not a home; it's a prison.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Those are British town houses, like you can see in all the decent residential areas of London. If the rednecks don't want them, I'll be glad to take them off their hands. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I like the gate that keeps out the...well, maybe the drunks?
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Right!
At least I wasn't Rick rolled!
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Hey, how did you land here ?? This post is about 3 years old !!
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I heard a rant earlier about stackoverflow being pretty useless. Well I tried to improve a solution and it told me I needed 50 points. Well I have been a programmer now for too many years, and worked with C# for over 10 years. No wonder one does not get answers.
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You can actually post a better answer though, you just can't comment.
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Yes, but then you'll get flamed, because you should have posted it as a direct reply, rather than a new comment.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Of course you get flamed, anything in the Big Ego tags gets flamed unless the poster has a brazillion rep points.
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Clifford Nelson wrote: Well I have been a programmer now for too many years, and worked with C# for over 10 years.
So how come you don't even have 50 lousy points yet? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Because every time I try to do anything I am told I do not have enough points. Have you watched the movie Catch 22?
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I was going to watch it but I didn't want to as I didn't know if I would like it as i hadn't seen it.
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Agreed. I have the same problem. Programming for almost 30 years, but anytime I try to post anything, I don't have enough rep points.
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Clifford Nelson wrote: Have you watched the movie Catch 22?
No, but I've read the book.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That's probably much better.
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Had a similar problem with WikiQuotes.
I posted a few clever (in my and importantly, anyone else who's heard them) quotes. They were promptly removed because they didn't think the source (me) was famous enough. Same moronic catch-22 mentality. You can post quotes unless you're known and you won't get known unless you can post your quotes. The way it was said, moreover, spelled out "arrogant a**hole".*
The parallel seems to span many fields - the ones making the decisions, lacking any native ability of their own, need to make sure no one outshines their dull mental squalor.
* we should be grateful, indeed, that Chris looks down from his lofty perch, just shakes his head, and lets the hamster continue turning their wheels.
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Repost![^] But a worthy one! 
"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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Yes I know, Just added different information. I love that can post answer but not a comment. Seems rather stupid.
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Clifford Nelson wrote: Seems rather stupid.
Indeed it does.
"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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It may have some weird rules around it, but whenever I search for how to do something, that site is always at the top of the list. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: but whenever I search for how to do something, that site is always at the top of the list.
That's because you keep clicking on them. Most of the search engines remember which sites you clicked on and rank those sites higher for your next search.
I've noticed lately that SO has been slipping down my search results page and MDN has been creeping up the rankings, and I've been asking questions about old-school javascript, so it's not like the info on one site or the other is changing in any significant way (Initializing an array in JS hasn't changed much for the past 147 years). It's because I'm purposely avoiding SO and favoring MDN these days for my JS needs.
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Vark111 wrote: That's because you keep clicking on them.
Now, that's true. And it's true because they were always at the top with the right answer.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Vark111 wrote: MDN
Wha dat?
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Thanks.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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