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For the curious ones: The braille text says (surprise, surprise!) "Fun reflections".
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 I checked that myself with an online reader ... It's harder to read than I expected, easy to make mistakes.
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I knew a guy back in college who was blind, and could read IBM punch cards using his fingers. He said they were a PITA compared to Braille, because the holes were spread so far apart.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Watch blind people using an electronic braille line - you'll be impressed! They use both hands, reading the first half with the left hand, then the right hand takes ove reading the second half while the left hand moves back to the beginning, ready for the next line. Some of them read braille faster than I read printed text! Their hands move so fast that you'd think they are trying to brush away the flies...
Another point that impresses me: I look at the Braille tables and do not recognize some codes that they read, but they tell: Oh, that's just because they use the OP table for representing the special Norwegian alphabetics! Or they use this table, or that table, or maybe UTF8 coding or ... There was at least three different ecodings in use for non-AZ-characters before UTF8, but they never thought of it: A single occurence of a "strange" braille code revealed "This text uses encoding so-and-so". Problem solved, nothing to worry about 
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You can read about it on my blog. In total, 41 countries. Is your country one of them?
Countries of Top 200 CodeProject Members – Coding Tidbit
Griff asked for rank by total points. I did a quick calculation from last Saturday data. Here you go.
United States:11428981
United Kingdom:6578480
India:5079679
Wales:2207598
Canada:1775221
Australia:1712261
Germany:1668127
Netherlands:840192
Belgium:713854
Italy:661709
Sweden:613502
Singapore:601048
Iran:518243
Serbia:442460
Israel:428174
Norway:401974
Europe:401107
Pakistan:360844
Brazil:316815
Poland:297756
Scotland:293195
Russian Federation:273444
France:270518
Malaysia:222314
Kenya:195656
Ukraine:186375
Mexico:181071
Thailand:180961
Slovakia:178867
Turkey:170268
Switzerland:140536
Ireland:140030
South Africa:133744
Bangladesh:116780
Czech Republic:109555
Chile:108525
Estonia:106341
Greece:105718
Austria:100599
Spain:94017
Egypt:87132
modified 28-Jan-19 6:47am.
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Yes, it is.
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Obviously, it is since you are one of top 200.
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Scotland and Wales are part of the UK, so that puts the UK comfortably ahead of India in second place.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: Scotland and Wales are part of the UK
Hah! Waxit! Scoxit! NIxit! Cornwallxit! You'll see! 
They aren't part of the UK as far as the media or government are concerned unless they win a major sportsball event ...
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Speaking as a member of the Mercian Independence and Liberation Front (MILF), I'm inclined to agree that the English provinces have put the future of the UK in grave jeopardy but for the time being we will happily regard yourself and Andy Murray as being British.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Just out of interest... why is it that UK, England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are all separate options?
Not that I expect you to know the answer, but you raised the point so you win the question
modified 28-Jan-19 6:31am.
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I suspect it's an American plot to suppress our scores.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: Scotland and Wales are part of the UK
Not anymore. They exited.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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The distribution would probably be different if it was "points per country" rather than "members per country".
And the US input may be skewed somewhat: it was (and probably still is) the default location if the member doesn't change it on sign up. Quite a few members who I know are India based have US as the location for example. Don't know if that applies to anyone in the top 200 though (and I'm far, far too lazy to check).
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Here's the rank by total points (from data taken on last Saturday)
United States:11428981
United Kingdom:6578480
India:5079679
Wales:2207598
Canada:1775221
Australia:1712261
Germany:1668127
Netherlands:840192
Belgium:713854
Italy:661709
Sweden:613502
Singapore:601048
Iran:518243
Serbia:442460
Israel:428174
Norway:401974
Europe:401107
Pakistan:360844
Brazil:316815
Poland:297756
Scotland:293195
Russian Federation:273444
France:270518
Malaysia:222314
Kenya:195656
Ukraine:186375
Mexico:181071
Thailand:180961
Slovakia:178867
Turkey:170268
Switzerland:140536
Ireland:140030
South Africa:133744
Bangladesh:116780
Czech Republic:109555
Chile:108525
Estonia:106341
Greece:105718
Austria:100599
Spain:94017
Egypt:87132
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Hmm. Only one Welsh member?
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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Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And that is actually a sheep that escaped the clutches of the local men!
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brave little Belgium
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Wales:2207598 ?
Does this mean big fishes like Marc Clifton? 
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Hold on, that can't be right.
Comparing with population figures, about a twentieth of the Netherlands has membership.
But they've also got the same percentage of thick-as-sh1t people as anywhere else (about 88%), so something's wrong with the count, there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hi All,
Have to go on site later today, steel toe shoes and hi-vis jacket and all. First issue due to changes in company policy PC's have to encrypted to the nth degree, fine, however the one person who knows how this system should work is not here. Hmmm, this could get awkward as we have to leave around late afternoon to get there for tomorrow. I (as always) have a back up plan should Bitlocker still be an issue... Why did they have to do this... Any clues anyone??
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glennPattonWork wrote: Why did they have to do this... Any clues anyone??
Karma. You must have been absolutely horrible in a previous life.
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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Wish I knew what it was... 
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