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Being an accountant, it would be prudent to lose £100 than to spend anything more on learning it.
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He's an accountant: piano lessons come from the training budget, not the drunken-gambling budget.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Oh, you can be sure that he's put the money into an interest-accruing account, and is relying on inflation, so that he'll only have to pay 63 quid my March.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dalek Dave wrote: my birthday (31st March)
 It's mine, mine,mine, ...
OK, we can share it, enjoy[^]
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Quote: my birthday (31st March)
Don't you think it's a bit early to be dropping hints?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I can't look at the links due to my crappy internet speed at the moment - but as for tips:
Take a few bars of the music (maybe just one or two, depending on what it is) and practice just those two bars, one hand at a time, until it is boring you to tears.
start practicing with both hands together.
Take another couple of bars and do the same - but not the next two bars.
Depending on the piece, you can practice a couple of separate bits at the same time (i.e. in the same week) or just stick to one, but don't even attempt to play the whole piece.
As time goes on and you get to be familiar with more and more parts, you will hopefully find that you can play through the tune, and just struggle at the parts you haven't yet practiced, speeding up again when you come to a part that you have.
Learning the 'linking' bars is the last step to putting it all together.
I learned the cantina Bar using this method & it works well - allows you to play a few bars of familiar music which gives incentive to carry on and learn more, rather than struggling with the whole piece.
Finally, record yourself practicing. then upload it, post a link here and let us all encourage you (or take the piss)
100 quid is less incentive than the piss-taking of your peers 
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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I don't visit the C# Q/As and forums so much these days. Sorry to say I rather preferred things before the Q/As arrived. It was good because sometimes I could help and sometimes I could learn from others, and sometimes you could debate.
But these days (especially today) it seems to be people just demanding answers on how to do things without any element of trying to understand it themselves. Either that or some question about how to get something in or out of an ASP grid control.
What happened to the "I've done this, I expect it to work can anyone help me see what I've got wrong?" questions? I hope this doesn't reflect where the industry is going as a whole.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: I hope this doesn't reflect where the industry is going as a whole.
Bangalore?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They are still there - but they do get swamped by the "do my homework" questions sometimes.
I think it's the format: they don't see other questions, so they post what they like instead of trying to post a question of a quality similar to existing ones.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I know what you mean. It seems like the people who used to ask us to do their homework for them have now graduated, got a job, and are now asking us to do their work for them! 
Far too many forum posts:
I need to do this project. Here's the list of requirements. Send me teh codez - itz urgent!
Also, what's with the increasing number of questions which come with code samples that are susceptible to SQL Injection? Is every student now taking a course on "how to get hacked in 20 minutes or less"?
"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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Ah - that's because the people who used to ask us to do their homework for them have now graduated, got a job as a teacher, and don't know what the heck they are teaching about... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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heh.
Yup. Them as could, did.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Say Goodbye to free answers ...
Or, "I can write the necessary code WAY faster if I know the context. So please 7zip the complete source of the project, and send it to me, together with the name of the company you're working for, and the name of the company that ordered the project."
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The problem is that many of the worst questions come from people who don't have any source code. They've been hired to write some code, don't know where to start, and want someone else to do it all for them.
There's nothing wrong with not knowing where to start and asking for guidance. There's nothing wrong with getting stuck and asking for help with a specific problem. But if you're just going to dump your requirements on someone else and expect them to do the work you're getting paid to do for you FoC, that's a problem.
"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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There is an amazing number of meanings for FoC, but I assume you meant the best "in this context" meaning: "Free of Charge" (I was expecting a nasty description of the person doing the asking.)
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KP Lee wrote: Free of Charge
Correct. 
"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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Langenbach wrote: So please 7zip ...
So, you're looking for a new position and you found an idiot you can replace?
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Richard Deeming wrote: Is every student now taking a course on "how to get hacked in 20 minutes or less"?
That is why I added my upvote! Just read a 4 year old article on how to do user/password interface. I read the process used... GAACCKK
One of the comments said "Obviously this won't work in ASP.NET" I couldn't believe the number of "How can I get it to work in ASP.NET?" Basically, "How can I set the focus on a field in a web form?", but without understanding that's what it is doing, but on a windows form TextBox object. I have to admit, I learned C# in 2004, wrote an ASP.NET app in 2005 and haven't touched ASP.NET since, so I don't remember the answer, but if I was working in ASP.NET today, that would just be part of my general knowledge.
On second thought, I think they read that comment and didn't even try to figure out what the code was doing and wanted the whole code re-written in ASP.NET format without even realizing he had just given part of the code he used. I don't even know if the author knew his code was missing the drag and drop portion of a windows form design. I just assumed he did.
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I was never a fan of QA. The format is too "solution driven" for my taste. I prefer a good discussion about the various ways to do something, all with their own pro's and con's. Sort of like the online equivalent of "throwing something into the group", then the group brainstorms a bit, exchanges ideas, discusses them, etc.. You can sort of do it in the comments, but that's not what the format guides you towards. It wants you to give The Answertm, but that's almost never how programming works. So IMO, the whole thing is fundamentally broken.
Practically it's even worse - with QA came a huge influx of low-quality questions that are either unanswerable or trivial. Bad questions were always asked, but not at that scale.
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Agreed - 100%
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: I hope this doesn't reflect where the industry is going as a whole.
On the average, it does - here, in Bergen, there are 3 week courses in web development for the unemployed ...
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Yeah, but it goes the opposite way too. If you take your time to write a detailed and formatted question and all you get is the first link from google with some of your keywords as a "solution".
I perfectly understand that offering some of your free time to help others resolving their issue is nothing you can demand. But if you see a question where someone has invested some thought and time into it would be great if those who answer also do invest a bit more time into the answer. (At least read the question). Obviously when someone is writing a detailed question you could expect the poster to already have googled for his problem too.
I currently don't see codeproject as a Q&A question at all. If I have a question I go to SO (yeah, blame on me  ). It's great for the resources in form of articles and tips and I've learned a lot from those.
Just as an example:
I asked a question about hosting a WCF service with https only (without http. I don't say my question is a perfect example of a question. But it contained what I thought was necessary to understand where my problem is and what I tried to accomplish. I got a response pointing me to an article how to setup https for a service. This is quite the opposite of what I had asked for and I read an article which was only explaining what I already did. Great...
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Yes, fair point and I'm not suggesting that there is no valid content in Q/As, just a lot less than there used to be.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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On the bright side there was an example of what I think is a good question[^] on the C# forum yesterday.
The chap/chapess made it clear that they were a beginner and had a stab at the solution which showed that they were putting effort in.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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