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Just don't derive square from rectangle 
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The difficulty asking a question …. and the much more difficulty to answer one
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Questioners are not always –usually not- native English. So some questions may look strange for natives. This should never be a decision criterion to vote down or fade out a question.
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Yes I can imagine one would give all of the own knowledge in the answer. But usually it is enough/better simply to answer first the basics. No matter how simple the question is.
Additional notes are of course welcome and usually very good, but remember additional and not flood Q with it first.
Just some thoughts....written by a absolutely no native 
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The problem with that is the Q's that get 1-voted have nothing to do with what language the OP is native in.
Conveying a context so people who are walking into your question ice cold is a common concept across all languages. The typical response to a bad question like that is usually something like "What are you trying to do with this?".
Also, there's a ton of questions where the OP obviously didn't do the simplest of searches before posting. For example, there's a question in QA right now, 1-voted of course, where the OP says he's trying to write an "OCR application where the inputs are 0..9". OK, fine. OK, no context again so "What part of this are you having a problem with?" There's also tons of articles all over the web on OCR, including a bunch here on CP.
Both of these problems usually get a 1-vote. Again, asking questions is a skill. Doing research is a skill. These are severely lacking in most OP's and they are the two skills that, without, you cannot survive in this industry or even be an effective hobbyist.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Also, there's a ton of questions where the OP obviously didn't do the simplest of searches before posting.
Agreed.
Here the OP claim 5 years of developer experience, but is unable to provide code for this simple problem, and wondering if recursion is better, show lack of experience. I suspect HomeWork in desguise.
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/5167925/Optimize-algorithm-arrange-an-array-with-items-wit.aspx[^]
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Thank you very much for your Feedback.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Many posters seem unable to form a clear idea of what they actually want.
Some have been instructed to use some technique/algorithm/whatever that they don't know.
Neither of those is a language issue.
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"Many posters seem unable to form a clear idea of what they actually want."
But exactly same happens to me also  "I think" I'm clear about what I'm asking, but nobody understands my Q. E.G: Web and Win, how to provide service for web[^]
I'm working on it to correct it 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I see what you mean, and your use of English is fine, though certainly not "like a native".
I do think that question suffers from the focussing on the "how" rather than the "what", which we see very frequently.
A poster needs to start by stepping back and describing the "big picture" of what they are trying to accomplish, rather than simply stating only the issues he is currently having with a particular implementation. In order to provide a complete solution, the responder needs to understand the whole situation.
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Thank you very much for your help.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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what purpose jabber and uses?
desktop chat application using jabber so plzme your suggestions
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Never heard of it, but I'll guess it's so idiots can shout at other idiots...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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CISCO chat program, very average experience, we use it in the office along with every other enterprise monstrosity some manager has decided he can't live without.
Stupid f***ing name.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Good old times!  
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Member 12187222 wrote: so plzme your suggestions
No thanks.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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He love you long time. 
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If you have to ask you don't need it.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Jabber is a proper name for an application that uses the XMPP protocol.
Funny, I was working on my jabber server when this popped up on CP.
It's kind of like Skype or Google Talk.
We run our own jabber server at home so we won't have to deal with idiots or ads. All my family and friends have accounts on it. We can text chat, voice chat, and make full video calls.
My jabber server is integrated with my Asterisk PBX at home, so I can answer incoming phone calls at work on Jabber from my home, 40 miles away, or the other way round.
Cannot live without it. It is a fundamental utility here like email.
I'll give you an example, my kids could be in school and need to ask mom a question or vice/versa. They are already on VPN at (private) school. They just type in the question in Jabber without interrupting or bothering anyone.
If you are interested, I run ejabberd as my Jabber server. We use Cisco at work, and Microsoft Lync.
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Basildane wrote: Jabber is a proper name for an application that uses the XMPP protocol.
Ah! I thought it might some kind of cattle prod. I could use one of those! 
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The last time I used a cattle prod was in college in a Physics class. I have no idea why the classroom had cattle prods, we only used them to shock other students.
Those were the good old days. Well, for some of us.
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We use it at work. It's a basic chat application by Cisco that also lets you share your desktop.
What I don't like about it is that you can't (or at least I haven't figured out how to) have undocked chat windows like you could in AIM, MSN Messenger and MS Communicator. My chat windows are all docked within the same frame and you can view only one conversation at any time, which I find inconvenient.
/ravi
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A Timeout Detection and Recovery of GPUs[^].
Didn't know that Windows did this. It's a good thing though, it prevents that 'frozen' state all too common with older versions.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I remember this killing my CUDA kernels.
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I've had Windows 10 recover nicely when the Video Driver "froze" and crashed. --- It restarted the driver, notified me of such, and then I went on my merry way...
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I get those sometimes if I am toying with OpenGL or DirectX and goof up some code. My card is pretty good, though, and can run even the most graphics intensive programs without much issue. 3GB video memory, with most of mine still unused (according to the history the most that has been used is 504MB).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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