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I was a former denizen of codeguru.com and one day I got an e-mail from Chris saying he had just started a new site and I was pre-registered for it. That new site was this one. The member count was pretty low then, less than one thousand as I recall, but it increased rather rapidly.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Like a number of replies here looking for code help. It was Visual Basic 6.
Think I asked a question NOT IN THE Lounge
This thread begs the question.
Why do you participate in CP and what do you get from it?
At my level of expertise and only using VB.Net I participate (contribute) very little.
What I do get from CP is reading the view of some very intelligent and funny people who just happen to code
and are associated with the software industry from around the World.
How did the little Green Alien get the name Bob?
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I needed to add database processing to a program I was working on in C++ back around 2004 I think. I asked a colleague if he knew of a library that took care of much of the tedious low level stuff. I just wanted to connect, query, process recordsets and such in my code. He told me to check out a site called CodeProject. I did and found an article and code that seemed to be written for my exact use case. I was able to easily include and use it in several C++ projects that needed DB access. I liked the atmosphere and attitude of the whole site and have remained a member ever since.
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Before CodeProject there was CodeGuru, created by Zafir Anjum. Chris and a bunch of us contributed several articles to that site. In 1997, Chris figured he could build a better site - and he was right. A bunch of us volunteered, but Chris did most of the heavy lifting. The early volunteers managed specific sections (there were only about a dozen when the site started). I managed the MFC Controls section which was near and dear to my heart and designed the site's joke post icon.
Since then CodeProject has grown beyond what most of us expected, and as we know is now one of the de facto sources of information for C# devs. Congratulations to Chris and Dave and the CP team!
/ravi (Member 191)
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: (Member 191
Reminds me of my first programming job.
I was employee #6.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: I was employee #6.
Nice!
There's something special about having the opportunity to be an early employee at a successful company. To say it's a learning experience is an understatement.
/ravi
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My first job title was 'Lacky' 
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As many others making a search about something during my final project in college.
I found the help of some good samaritans here.
A time later I had a long break.
Then I one day came back again, and never left.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I ended up here after googling (long ago) for some code (possibly javascript to create a bar-graph in a web-page). I stayed for the Insider News (and Kent's regular "name that earworm" challenge) and have evolved into a regular Lounge-lurker.
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
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I'm too old to remember it, or too young ))
Ether when studying in university or when got my first and the only job.
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In July 2000 I was looking for some guidance on creating a grid control for MFC. Google pointed me at Chris's article (MFC Grid control 2.27[^]) and I soon abandoned the idea of writing my own.
This first introduction to CodeProject was such a positive experience that I signed up and just kept coming back, more for the community than for the free code. I feel a little guilty that my contributions over the years have been meagre compared to what I have got out of it.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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An answer on a Stack Overflow article brought me here many moons ago.
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My boss encouraged us to sign up for the newsletter as one way to keep up with industry news. I've loved it.
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Lost in the mists of time.
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it has been soo long I am sure I don't remember. Probably something to do with C# and porting a VB application to C#. because that has to be the reason doesn't it?
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Interestingly enough, I found them the "physical" way. I was looking for tech companies close to where I lived at the time (Eglington and Don Mills/DVP area in Toronto), and they came up. I think they have moved to downtown Toronto since then.
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About 15 years ago, when @chris-maunder teamed up with us at "LiDNUG" on linked-in to do a presentation on how he built code-project using DOT NET.
Unfortunately, I don't know what happened to the presentation, I thought it was on our YouTube page (youtube.com/@lidnug) but I can't seem to find it.
We did loose a few of our presentations about 6 years ago, when someone managed to get control of our Google account temporarily, so we may have lost it then.
I've also just spent 30 mins looking through the few Live Meeting recordings we had still saved on our server, and it's not among those, so I guess it's definitely lost 
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"Turned left at Greenland"
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I can't recall, but was surprised to look at my profile where it tells me I've been a member for 16 years!
Where did it go...?
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I'm stuck in a situation where I can either upgrade my business computer, or give the money to uncle sam in taxes.
So here are my specs:
CPU: Intel® Core™ i9-13900KF Processor[^]
Mobo: ROG STRIX Z690-G GAMING WIFI[^]
Ram: 64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5 (2x32GB)
I might have to go for 128GB RAM depending on how long this contract i'm working on goes for.
The problem is I still have money to burn, and this is the fastest single core performance I can find in microATX.
I'm not looking for anything like an AMD Threadripper, because that's out of my budget, but within high end consumer systems, or affordable server systems, can anyone suggest a faster single core setup? (MicroATX because I really love my chassis a lot)
Or otherwise have any good ideas for PC upgrades I can sink some money into? (stuff I can write off - not gaming exclusive stuff like that)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 16-Nov-22 4:14am.
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If you transfer it into my bank account, then you can definitely consider it written off.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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As far as I know, 13900KF is the best you can do for single-threaded performance, unless you're using enough AVX512 that an 11th-gen wins that race (not likely, but if you're doing some specific .. maybe).
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Thanks! I just wanted to make sure there wasn't some one off AMD Threadripper I could afford I haven't heard of that could beat it. 
Sometimes there are just, golden chips out there that are underrated. The Intel Wolfdale chips way back when were a good example of a sleeper that could hit 6Ghz.
Before I spend this kind of money, I like to cast a wide net so I can check my assumptions.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I didn't take OCing into account, but also, you can't do that much of it anymore (except on LN2). The modern CPUs have all sorts of fancy boost frequencies and boost power levels and basically OC themselves within factory set limits, as long as the temperature is low enough (so, cool them properly).
You can change some settings to allow the CPU to stay in high power levels for longer. This sort of thing is not easy to capture fairly in benchmark scores. As far as OCing itself goes, expect maybe a couple hundred MHz above the maximum Single-Core Thermal Velocity Boost.
AMD Zen has similar tricks up its sleeve, but tends to use less power so it's easier to keep it cool. Intel 13th gen is fast, but also really power hungry.
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