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I'm getting the feeling SO has made a big step in the "mechanical turk for programming assignments" direction lately. It's always been something like that, but it's starting to get really bad now. Are those times a-changin'?
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The reason why most new questions are bad is because there's no need to ask a good question twice...
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I  to hold back the 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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All the good questions have already been asked. Now google finds them.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I disagree. I feel there are many questions that deserve an answer, but have not been asked, especially for new programmers who can't extrapolate the parts of code from a different question.
I also feel that the people there are getting quite rude and unhelpful. I asked a simple question about the proper syntax for a MySQL Query being embedded within C# code, and instead of answering me, there was like 15 answers, all about how I didn't ask it right, even though they knew what I was asking, and they shut down my question.
That is one of the biggest reasons I enjoy coming to CodeProject. We don't have issues like that here. We seem to be more understanding and we try to look past imperfect syntax and answer what they need to know.
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I've heard similar complaints about CP as well.
I was just guessing and I wasn't completely serious, especially considering there's no way I could know that.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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No harm done, or intended. I know what you meant, just trying to point out that it was bad enough that I stopped commenting or anything over there. I was quite literally bullied away.
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Sad. I hate bullies.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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So you want to get into DIY hacking. Which device should you buy? Our version of Sophie's Choice.
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Hmm. A microcontroller a 'single component' of a computer? I wouldn't describe it as that. And 128,000 times the RAM??? I presume they are referring to flash memory which isn't really RAM.
I own both, and to be honest I lost interest in the Pi pretty damn quickly after booting the thing up as its just a Linux box. We can all install Linux on dual boot or a VM if we want that. Surely the appeal of the Pi is to get on the metal which you can do but documentation is scant. I've spent ages trying to find a memory map for the thing.
This is an excellent resource: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/[^]
Arduinos are pretty cool though and they've made it very easy to use.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Never used either, so take my comments with that in mind.
Yeah, it seems to me the Pi is just a tiny computer. The Arduino appears to be little more than a souped-up micro controller.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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No. Look at the comparison table. They're looking at an Arduino with only 2k of ram (IIRC there're models with several times as much); whereas the rPi has enough ram to run light weight versions of linux. The flash capacity comparison would be a similarly large blower.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yes, quite right Dan. I stand corrected.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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In this article I will talk about another kind of pointer which is much more common in most Rust programs: borrowed pointers (aka borrowed references, or just references). Something borrowed, something referenced.
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Massive leaps in computing power, hidden layers, hardware backdoors -- encrypting sensitive data from prying eyes is more precarious than ever I do believe that man is trying to start a war with that title.
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"ROT-13 is good enough for anyone." -- Bill
"There's no reason anyone would want encryption in his home." -- Ken
"I see a world market for perhaps five encryption algorithms." -- Tom
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Article with references to more bullshit.
Do read 'em.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Whether or not that’s actually true isn’t certain, but Simo Suoheimo is betting that he and the rest of the people at Ambronite can deliver the same fast nutrition as Soylent while using whole foods instead of powders and pills. And after that, I don't want to have to brush my teeth myself no more neither.
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It’s always odd to hear people say RSS is dead. The fact is, RSS is easily the most successful stealth, insurgent technology on the web. It is pervasive and is the engine for much of the Internet. If you strike me down I shall become ... precisely as powerful as you imagined.
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eeeeeew! That page's background is giving me flashbacks to the '90s.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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First, I have to agree with Dan Neely... my eyes now hurt.
Second, although I've never used RSS per se myself, it is used where I work.
We have a twice a month requirement to check for updates for our third party software. A few years back, someone in the group added an RSS feed from the vendor to our Intranet page showing any new patch releases.
It seems to have worked well until the vendor redesigned their support site and killed the RSS feed; I am now seeing messages from them saying the RSS feed is back. I suspect they weren't aware of how much is was being used.
Tim
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Waking up to a string of missed calls is rarely a harbinger of good, and this time proved no different. Upon returning the calls I was greeted with a simple “You’ve been hacked.” Great. Something tells me the founder of 4chan has had many, many bad days.
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Volvo Car Group’s “Drive Me” project — featuring 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads in everyday driving conditions — is moving forward rapidly, with the first test cars now driving around the Swedish city of Gothenburg. In neutral Sweden, car drives you!
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It's great - now a single software error can kill thousands on road!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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