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Alex Fr wrote: CListCtrl
Ah only the very wise know 
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It's the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, CodeProject and Everything...
You know that humans are the most intelligent species, after the hamsters and dolphins (they, however, have left Earth leaving behind a rather cryptic message). As it turns, hamsters run the entire planet. They were conducting some experiments in an attempt to find the answer to the Ultimate Question: that's how they came with CodeProject. After years of waiting, CodeProject came up with the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, CodeProject and Everything: CListCtrl. Unfortunately, no one knows which was the Ultimate Question, so CodeProject has begun to create a better version of itself, a new site that will be able to calculate it. Alternativetly, the hamsters are chasing Chris, trying to get his brain back for further study. They haven't been able to find him, although word has come that he's hidding in some restaurant at the end of Toronto...
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Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: It's the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, CodeProject and Everything...
no, i am.
you can tell by my CP ID#.
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Originally it was due to visitors mistakenly thinking the optional text answer field for a survey as the search box for the site. This let us know that most people were at the time searching for help on the CListCtrl class.
It turned up so often in the early surveys that poeple noticed and started using it as a defacto joke answer in surveys.
Now it is tradition. 
If you vote me down, my score will only get lower
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...and the joke is ruined. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Computer/programming type info comes out so frequently, contains so many fly-by-night topics, and becomes obsolete so quickly that it's best if be done in digital format. If for no other reason than to hide from future generations the degree to which we flailed our arms about looking for answers. Harlequin novels also fall into this category.
On the other hand, some things don't change and are meant for the ages. These we print so that after the great cataclysm that nulls our decadent society, there is still something left to read. All that comes to mind at this time are some of my own (soon to be immortal) quotes, a few Vonnegut novels,and the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
Also, when putting a book into real print, one must consider that it be of adequate quality so as to make it eligible for burning by the various dictators, ministers, and demagogues that seem to ever abound.
Currently, far too much literature that is referred to as a book (electronic or otherwise) is really more correctly described as a overly long magazine, sharing the same expected shelf-life.
'Oh Brave New World'
(and yes, the subject is also a pun)
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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That's right. The math book (probability problems) which lays open next to me is dated 1966 and it's still as fresh as it was when printed. Also, I couldn't do maths from e-books. Digital formats are great for IT.
BTW I hate video tutorials.
Greetings - Jacek
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Balboos wrote: ll that comes to mind at this time are some of my own (soon to be immortal) quotes
I have refreshed your immortal quotes ten times so the visit counter jumped from 42 to 52.
Greetings - Jacek
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Jacek Gajek wrote: visit counter jumped from 42 to 52
You are my new hero !
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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What's a "book"?
Is that like an e-book but not searchable?
Before .NET 4.0,
object Universe = NULL;
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Exactly. I can't imagine what kind of Luddites are voting for book in this day and age. Get your heads on straight!
There is no failure only feedback
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John C wrote: I can't imagine what kind of Luddites are voting for book in this day and age
The same kind that refuses to use multiple monitors 
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If they are properly indexed they are searchable.
Craigslist Troll: litaly@comcast.net
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Hmm where do you put in the search term? Write it on the binding?
Before .NET 4.0,
object Universe = NULL;
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Is something wrong about it?
Or its a kind of publicity?
Only a joke or insider? :P
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"Liquid Nitrogen" I think you'll find 
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Two ingredients of bacon ice cream. 
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Ignoring requests for explaing the CListCtrl joke is more fun than the joke itself
Greetings - Jacek
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Shortly after the release of the Visual C++ 2008 Enhancement Pack (or whatever was called at the time) I tried going for CMFCListCtrl, but nobody would follow me...
Anyway, it relates to a fellow that once mistaked the "Other" option in a survey for the article search textbox. Or something like that...
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Absolutely totally ignore every response to your question.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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What sort of information?
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I consume a lot of "Article of the Day" kind of newsletter, something like CodeProject does and summarizes a lot of what is going on.
If something really grabs my intention then I dig a little more about it but most reads will end on the head lines.
One thing that I find most productive is the Fiday afternoon "class" given by a team member about a subject that he knows or had to learn to teach the rest of us.
Every week a new team member have to teach something and this way only one of us have to spend time digging on a subject.
Friday afternoons are usually a lot less productive anyway so, this is a way to power up the end of the week.
Cheers!
Alex
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I have only worked in one environment where that was done, and that was a very long time ago. It may seem helpful, but I remember how much work you had to put in to get that "simple" one hour class done. About a week, if it was any good!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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