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Sushil Mate wrote: Don't you have Gmail account?
I've got a google+ account, but I use my Internet name and, obviously, no address or phone number.
This is requiring me to accept either an SMS or call to confirm my ID.
I can't see why a company in the States would need this, so they must be kowtowing to their NSA overlords.
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Quote: This is requiring me to accept either an SMS or call to confirm my ID.
I can't see why a company in the States would need this, so they must be kowtowing to their NSA overlords.
Even in India they ask for phone number to authenticate your account. Reason they gave, if you forget your password or account gets hacked its easy to regenerate your password through mobile.
any chance of having facebook account? 
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Sushil Mate wrote: if you forget your password or account gets hacked its easy to regenerate your password through mobile
It's even easier to just forget the account and create a new one. If there is no personal information stored in the account, it doesn't matter if it's hacked -- that's far better protection than handing your life story over to the NSA.
American corporations and foreign governments do not need personal information about me -- and they ain't gonna get any unless it's in My interest to give it to them.
I do have a facebook account (despite my having closed it several times), but that's been a lot less trouble to maintain since I mapped facebook.com to 127.0.0.1.
If google persists with cr@p like this, their sites will end up getting similar treatment.
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Quote: I do have a facebook account (despite my having closed it several times), but that's been a lot less trouble to maintain since I mapped facebook.com to 127.0.0.1.
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I've switched gears in the past 30 days, now prototyping a new Android client to call our existing .NET services.
Whenever I query for C# or .NET, Google brings me here.
Whenever I query for Java or Android, Google takes me to Stackoverflow.
It's much less distracting, and much less fun.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin
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dexterama wrote: It's much less distracting, and much less fun.
That's one of the reasons I'm not active there: they seem to have had their sense of humour removed, and a vastly inflated sense of their own importance inserted. Probably where the sun doesn't shine. They seem to be obsessed with reputation and scoring points off each other, and don't come over at all "beginner friendly".
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OriginalGriff wrote: seem to be obsessed with reputation and scoring points
And this is ultra-different than here...
Two months ago a friend of mine that manages a TI shop near my house started a new Project (a small phpbb based forum).
When he asked me about ideas I suggested a few, mostly what I feel are the best things of CP…
But, at the end I had to tell him: be nice and accessible, give a good content, but the best of it all is to give the family feeling I’ve not found anywhere else in the Internet that one can feel here…
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I think you have it about right. Of all the sites I've found this is the one I am addicted to keep coming back to.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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OriginalGriff wrote: there are some reputation obsessed folk here...
The kind of reputation I am thinking of is problematic for CP. It is difficult to explain to my mother what I do and how I do it on CP such that I reached platinum level as a "Master Debator".
Clickety[^]
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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That's why I like this place - we have so many self confessed Master Debators... 
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Exact!
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OriginalGriff wrote: around 4 o'clock on Christmas day, when all the presents have been opened, the food has all been eaten
Well, if you will insist on getting up that early in the morning... 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Shaddap and stay out of my room!
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I'll go to mommy and tell!
CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS look what Mark has saaaaaaaaiiiiid!
You are doomed! MUWHAHAHAHAHAAH!
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You better not, if you wanna see your fairy princess Barbie's head again!
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Amen that. Back in 99 one could barely see any flames (some "dear sir or madam can you do this in VB?" here and there, promptly downvoted); today you cannot dare to comment something - the "community" promptly deletes "offensive content" (like why did you used function X instead of Y, go figure). At least one guy which name I won't mention took the time and downvoted (then deleted) each and every comment I posted on one of his articles. And he's not the only one doing that - god knows for what, since the article was not five stars as he dreamed in his bathroom.
You're right; this is not even funny, not to mention beginner friendly. It's simply unfriendly - on so many levels, seeing a simple nice comment from a veteran poster is simply a rarity today. This is the main reason I am barely posting comments - let alone articles.
Nuclear launch detected
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dexterama wrote: Whenever I query for Java or Android, Google takes me to Stackoverflow.
Same here with anything having to do with Ruby and Rails, which of course makes sense. 
dexterama wrote: It's much less distracting, and much less fun.
Not necessarily. Reading through some of the comments, especially when it comes to Git and the difference between fetch, pull, yank, jerk*ff, etc., is quite amusing.
One of my favorites[^]
cxreg's comment is so CRITICALLY IMPORTANT that it ought to be made it's own answer and be given enough up votes that every git user finds it and reads it. Everyone who thinks git pull --rebase === git fetch && git rebase is missing a big part of the story that will come back to bite them some day. Their is some extra magic built in that only shows up when the upstream branch has been rebased. If you work with large teams you will encounter this regularly.
Upstream....rebase....MAGIC.....
My reaction[^]
especially when reading "there's some extra magic..." 
Marc
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Same here, luv android programming, we have a Sales Rep UI written for Android with a .net Service -> sql database backend.
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I can honestly say that Stackoverflow is a crap, lousy place to do business. I'm not saying CP is 100% great all the time but in hotel terms it's 5-star while SO is like a sleazy motel run by down-and-outs for crack whores and cons. I find little of value at SO, and I think of SO as Sod Off, because I might as well on the few occasions I do waste time getting routed there when I google something.
Just my two cents worth. 
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I would disagree with that; the technical stuff can be excellent, it's just the "superior" attitude that gets up my nose. And can get in the way of the technical stuff... 
Even if it was as you describe, running down the competition is never a good idea - nothing makes me not use a company faster than a salesdroid "rubbishing" their competitors.
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I'm sure they have their own salesdroids rubbishing CP. There are many folk here who are registered over there as well. They are indeed "superior" but makes them even more eligible for rotten veg and eggs. 
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I personally agree with your assessment, but the Interwebs are pretty big, so there's room for two dev-centric web-sites, catering to different tastes.
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I would search CP first, see if there's anything posted in the Lounge that I'm looking for,  etc.
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