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Chris,
Thanks a lot! It is working now.
As a person who do programming a lot, I would love to hear the story about why it does not work. If you don't mind sharing, the technical detail may help other people. 
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biop.codeproject wrote: I would love to hear the story about why it does not work
You just want to embarrass me, right?
The short version is that we were packing together data in binary form, and then sending it to a service to complete the steps to confirm your address. However, the receiver was assuming a fixed sized packet and because one of the pieces of info in the struct being sent was your member ID, all member IDs above 2^23 (8,388,608) were causing an overflow.
That particular piece of code was written about (in essence) 10 years ago. I guess I just wasn't dreaming big enough back then 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That's the juiciest coding horror I've seen in a while! 
Somebody in an online forum wrote: INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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Hi,
Yesterday i was looking at one article for approving it and gave my opinion for the same. After that it was shown that there are a total of 5 reports for the article.
Today i was able to give my opinion for that article again and this time i was shown a total of only 1 report for that particular article.
I think this shouldn't be the usual behaviour.
Since i wasn't allowed to vote again on the first day, the same should happen the next day as well. I shouldn't have been allowed to vote.
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It may have been that the article was made available and then sent back to "Pending", or was deleted and then reposted. Either of these situations will result in the article losing all votes and comments.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Can you please add the editor for questions and answers to the "add comment" so comments get the same love.
Typing [& l t ; for < etc.] is a pain for answering with code samples in the comments
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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I second this.
When I was a coder, we worked on algorithms. Today, we memorize APIs for countless libraries — those libraries have the algorithms - Eric Allman
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I think comments are just comments. If you want to get pretty then post an answer/solution. I think it becomes more than a comment if you add bells and whistles.
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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It would be nice to have 
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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Comments should allow minor formatting, but definitely not the full fledged content editor. It's overkill.
If the issue is that entities need to be intelligently encoded then let's solve that issue instead of introducing complexity.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I would like to be able to do things like place links, and put code in my comments, and I,m afraid my knowledge of HTML is dangerous. It would be preferable for me to be able to select link from a menu to place a link rather than me trying to fathom this HTMl stuff. A lot of people rely on CP, and me playing around with HTML could bring things crashing to a screaming halt in no time. 
When I was a coder, we worked on algorithms. Today, we memorize APIs for countless libraries — those libraries have the algorithms - Eric Allman
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One of the main points of Quick Answers is to arrive at a good answer. If you find yourself needing to provide links or code, then I would guess that the best place to do this is in an actual answer - either a new one or by improving a current answer, or in the case of clarification to a question, by updating the question itself.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You're probably right. It is just that I have in the past had to do this to clarify an answer, most often when replying to an OP's comment which he left on my answer. Nowadays, I just add to my original answer and then post a comment to tell the OP to recheck my answer, rather than play around. 
When I was a coder, we worked on algorithms. Today, we memorize APIs for countless libraries — those libraries have the algorithms - Eric Allman
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Mehdi Gholam wrote: Can you please add the editor for questions and answers to the "add comment" so comments get the same love.
Typing [& l t ; for < etc.] is a pain for answering with code samples in the comments
Chris Maunder wrote: Comments should allow minor formatting, but definitely not the full fledged content editor. It's overkill.
I would ask: why have any formatting capability at all in comments on QA questions or answers.
imho, make comments "raw text."
That way you can type List<SomeType> and not have the hassle of typing ampersand-comparator-semicolon.
However, I would like to see the ability to vote on comments: some are so outstanding that it is frustrating to me to not be able to acknowledge their excellence except through another comment. And to throw a "monkey wrench" in: I would like to see the OP not be able to vote on comments. Do I need to say, again, that I love to think of work for other people to do ?
best, Bill
"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." Bjarne Stroustrop circa 1990
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I second the plain text, a good idea.
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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Mehdi Gholam wrote: I second the plain text, a good idea
err.. weren't you the one who asked for the editor in the first place. Now you want plain text ?? 
When I was a coder, we worked on algorithms. Today, we memorize APIs for countless libraries — those libraries have the algorithms - Eric Allman
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Mr. CM veto'ed that I think
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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Please delete my account.
Thankyou
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The first link in today's Insider here[^] keeps reverting to the mobile version. Even if I select the 'Full Version' link from there, it goes back to the mobile page within a second.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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It's showing the full version for me 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Henry didn't mention he's on his phone!
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Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Working OK for me too this morning.
I blame [^]s.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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