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Would it be possible to add a (n optional) setting telling users' citizenship ? We have often the case of people coming originally from one country (citizenship) and working in another one (location), and I think it would be interesting if in the bio they could provide both information using the flags.
I hope this does not break any privacy rule.
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Note that it still won't tell you someone's ethnic origin. For example, there are US citizens of Indian origin working in Canada. So their location will say Canada, citizenship will say USA but their ethnic origin will be neither.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: US citizens of Indian origin working in Canada.
Never heard of someone in that situation  
Seriously, yes, you are right. I actually meant what you call "ethnic origin", what IMO tells in most cases more about the culture of the people I am writing to than his current citizenship. On the other hand, the contrary must sometimes also be true (citizenship explains more about one's opinions than his/her origin). But three flags in the settings would definitely be too much...
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Rage wrote: Never heard of someone in that situation
There are quite a few such folks 
And just this last weekend I met a Canadian citizen of Indian origin who recently moved to the States.
Rage wrote: I actually meant what you call "ethnic origin", what IMO tells in most cases more about the culture of the people I am writing to than his current citizenship. On the other hand, the contrary must sometimes also be true (citizenship explains more about one's opinions than his/her origin). But three flags in the settings would definitely be too much...
Well, ethnic origin won't really tell you much about someone's cultural values. For example, again using Indians as example, first generation Indian immigrants may retain some of their Indian-ness, but their kids will basically behave like typical American kids. The only thing it will tell you is what ethnic origin or racial group a person is from.
Again there are various factors that affect this. Some people do not fuse their values easily with their adopted country's values - and this sometimes reflect on their kids too. But my experience has been that 2nd gen Indians (and probably other Asians too) are highly unlikely to retain any values or social patterns from their ethnic culture.
I don't know if Chris would want to go that route, but it would certainly be interesting - though it would be more FaceBook-ish rather than LinkedIn-ish, if you get what I mean.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Again there are various factors that affect this. Some people do not fuse their values easily with their adopted country's values - and this sometimes reflect on their kids too. But my experience has been that 2nd gen Indians (and probably other Asians too) are highly unlikely to retain any values or social patterns from their ethnic culture.
The general rule of thumb in the US is 3 generations for total assimilation. eg children of Asian/Caribbean/African immigrants score well above average academically. Grandchildren of Asian immigrants OTOH basically fall to same level as white natives, while the latter groups grandkids plummet all the way to the dismal level of the general black populace.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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dan neely wrote: Grandchildren of Asian immigrants OTOH basically fall to same level as white natives
I guess you have to wait for a generation where the kid fails high school math and prefers his PS3 to reading a book to finally be sure that assimilation is now complete. 
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based on the pattern I've seen I think the parents crack the whip enough that even while mostly assimilated they can't get away with that sort of crap, but since the kids don't care personally they don't crack the whip at the grandkids.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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So I'm still living in Rome but indeed fully assimilated.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: There are quite a few such folks
I know, hence the smileys  (I think you talked about your own experience, didn't you ? I think I can remember you being in Canada for a bit of time).
In fact, I was taking about my own case: I am french, but I am crossing the border every day to work in Germany. Which makes some people quite astonished that I know much about France while my bio stating my location is Germany. So I thought citizenship could add a bit of information...
But your argumentation is true, and if we could avoid being Facebook-ish, let it be !
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I don't really see *much* value to this feature.
There are many *cultural breed* of people you will meet online today
There are people who are born on their native land, moved to another country (in some cases many countries). In the processes, their ethnic personality got diluted with many cultures and costumes. ( I'm one of them ). It will be very hard to frame such people to their original ethnicity.
This reminds me about a joke I heard long time ago:
A guy got arrested and taken to court.
Judge: State your name
Accused: states his full name
Judge: State your birth date
Accused: gives his birth date
Judge: State your nationality/citizenship
Accused: *stares at the judge and he did not answer*
Judge: I SAID, State your nationality/citizenship
Accused: *stares at the judge, didn't answer*
Judge: Did you hear what I said? For the last time, State your nationality/citizenship
Accused: Looks at the judge, starts talking: My father is Swedish, My Mother is Brit, I was born on a yacht on the Sydney Harbor, Australia, I grew up in Canada, my Wife is Italian, I work in US and have offices in Brazil, India and Korea.....
Judge: Ok, Ok, that is enough. (instructs to the court clerk) write his citizenship as UN.
Yusuf
Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
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Yusuf wrote: write his citizenship as UN
Thank you!
I've been trying to think of the pefect answer for myself and that's it.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
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Hi,
I'm using Internet Explorer 8.0, and every time I go to a Code Project article page, IE hangs. The CPU shows 50% (dual core) and memory usage seems to just be increasing. Other pages, like the forum here or the main page is fine. It seems to be the article pages that cause problems. Or perhaps it's IE???
Anybody else having the same problems?
KG
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I hope to get all comments about a topic when subscribing RSS. Now,it seems only the content of the topic is available. I believe this full feed is very helpful if someone want to know the progress of the thread he have posted. Though you may say the reminding email does the same thing I still insist this function will benefit us very much.
I hope this idea could be considered, thanks in advance.
sharion
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Is this for Article RSS feeds?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Of course include Article RSS feeds, and I particularly focus on FORUMS boards related to this function. You know,viewpoint interchange is necessary amongst these boards. It is easy to catch up the latest progress for related participants.
Thanks for your attention.
sharion
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I am facing a strange issue. Here is the steps to reproduce it
1 - Click on reply for any message.
2 - Select some text from the message and click "Quote Selected Text". The selected text appears in the editing area wrapped in <blockquote> tags.
3 - Paste any link into the editing area just down to this quoted text. You can see the link is not getting formatted and the block quote is getting encoded automatically.
Browser : FF 3.0.8
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This is similar to another problem Dan reported. I'm hoping to get time to deal with this one in the next couple of days.
If only Firefox handled the clipboard better 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Are you still seeing this issue? I can't repeat it
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I am not seeing this anymore. Looks like it is fixed. Thanks Chris. 
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Thanks for that - I'll try and get this fixed tomorrow.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Could we have a checkbox to remove the blogs from the latest article list?
(I appologise if there already is one - I did look!).
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)
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Working on that. We thought we'd done it for all listings and then realised we'd missed a bunch. Apologies for that.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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This has been done.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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So, last night, a load of my blog posts were picked up - but they weren't pulled through in their entirety. When I've been in and looked at them, they are all just partial extracts - see Fun with Fonts[^] for instance, and somebody has gone and voted them all 1 obviously thinking I've been taking the mick with the article submission wizard. Could we get the full blog text in so that people actually get to read the article?
Also - could I get the existing votes of 1 removed? It's hammered my average article rating, and I don't think this is entirely fair seeing I didn't post the articles like this.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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modified on Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:00 AM
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