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realJSOP

I know, I'm late for this party, but... If you simply stop coming here, nobody will apparently miss you. Heck, in a week, they probably won't even remember your name. In their minds, your account won't exist, and they won't even be able to recall fond memories of you being an asshat before you vanished. If you want to leave little/no footprints, delete your article, and then delete all of the messages you've posted on the site. Yeah, you'll have to delete messages one at a time, but hey, what do you want? A rubber biscuit?

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baloneyman

Welcome to the Hotel California?

brianwelsch

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

what do you want? A rubber biscuit?

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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:

C# and VB.NET and almost entirely interchangable

in concept yes, but not in syntax. to him it was like reading spanish when he knows french. similar languages, yes, but not nearly the same enough. After all, he's a newbie to programming and VB.NET in particular. Do you really expect that he would be able to translate the C# examples into VB.NET? Your post proves his point about the arrogance of (some) CP members.

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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:

you would have found that C# and VB.NET are nearly interchangable

in concept, but not in syntax.

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:

We're not the arrogant ones here

actually you are. he's new to programming and asked for help in learning what he wanted to learn. your attitude is like giving advice in how to build a castle when someone asks how to build a two-room cottage and then complaining when they point out you're not answering their question or providing help in they way they need it. you need to grow up.

Silence is the voice of complicity. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- monty python Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay

Leslie Sanford

ahz wrote:

in concept yes, but not in syntax. to him it was like reading spanish when he knows french. similar languages, yes, but not nearly the same enough. After all, he's a newbie to programming and VB.NET in particular.

If I understand his situation, he posted an article containing VB.NET code and got angry when people posted comments to the article's message board containing C# code (he doesn't know C#). If that's the case, and he's a beginner programmer, maybe it would have been better if he had waited about posting an article? I didn't see the article, so I can't comment on the quality of it. I think, however, that it's not unreasonable to expect a certain level of expertise from someone posting an article. This would vary depending on the article's aims, but if he's truly a newbie, I would respectfully suggest looking before leaping.

ahz wrote:

Do you really expect that he would be able to translate the C# examples into VB.NET?

Maybe not. I would expect a civil exchange in which he politely asked for a VB version if he were having trouble. Did he do this?

leckey 0

Michael Martin wrote:

Jewish complex

What is that supposed to mean?

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

some people believe that the US is controlled/manipulated/manuvered(sp?) by some super-secret, all-encompassing Jewish conspiracy.

Silence is the voice of complicity. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- monty python Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay

Dan Neely

ahz wrote:

some people believe that the US is controlled/manipulated/manuvered(sp?) by some super-secret, all-encompassing Jewish conspiracy.

And some people believe that aliens exist and have nothing better to do than to sneak around the Earth smashing weird patterns in farm fields and dismembering cattle. :wtf::omg::wtf::omg::wtf::omg::wtf::omg::wtf:

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

dan neely wrote:

aliens exist

I'm sure they do.

dan neely wrote:

have nothing better to do

One wonders. Perhaps some of the aliens are wiseacres who like playing practical jokes on lower lifeforms. But you're probably right.

Silence is the voice of complicity. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- monty python Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay

S Douglas

Michael Martin wrote:

You don't need to understand why he would want too.

Why not? He posed a question in a public forum, I responded. How did your post help his cause? :)

Michael Martin wrote:

That doesn't answer his question. He wants to delete his account.

My second comment was about his participation in CP, had nothing to do with deleting his account.

BorgPidgeon wrote:

I do not want to be a part of this ungrateful community any longer.

S Douglas wrote:

Umm, then don't participate in any of the discussions here. I don't think Chris & company forces anyone to post here.

Michael Martin wrote:

He wants to delete his account. Code Project should give him the chance.

Really? Why not just change the email address assigned to the CP account here and be done with it? Why make some public announcement? Sheesh, make a smart aleck reply on a board full of smart alecks, and what do yea get a smart aleck reply. :)

I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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...Do that again....bow bow bow....

RC_Sebastien_C

BorgPidgeon wrote:

I wrote a VB.NET article and the only comments I recieved were idiots

BorgPidgeon wrote:

This is why I think the majority of the community is arrogant, disrespectful and stupid.

Wow. You had more than 1.5 million comments?

Edbert P

That's a nice Firefox-eats-IE(?) logo, btw. :-D

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code frog 0

In a lot of ways I can sympathize with how you feel. In another way I want to say you had better get used to this. Software engineers tend to be cocky and arrogant. Just the way it is. I don't advocate that nor do I personally except. I have 10 articles right now and 2 of them were *really* well received the votes I've gotten on the other 8 (3's) tell me they are not bad and could be well received but I need to beef them up a bit more. I'd advise you to not focus on what others think so much. Nobody here is friends or family and they will likely not ever share your bed or your home. They don't matter. Taking pride in your work *should* matter though, right? So if they answered you in C# and gave you flippant responses stand your ground. Not rudely but politely ask them to provide code in VB if they wouldn't mind. Explain that you are new and would benefit. Now having said that... *MANY* people here are C fundamentalist, C Radical Fundamentalists. I'd almost equate them with terrorists as fanatical as they can be but thankfully none of them is guilty of any form of terrorism other than sharp whit and tongue. If you are in the VB crowd just keep on rolling and ignore them. You'll win their respect if you don't react to them at all. Just keep doing your thing but make sure it's quality stuff. Wanting to delete your account is one thing. Just email the webmaster. Links are on every page and ask them to remove your account. You'll be doing the webmaster and yourself a favor. Don't post here it makes you look like a whiner wanting to score sympathy points. Just stand your ground in silence. Humility has never hurt anyone that I'm aware of but unearned praise has caused a lot of problems.

I only read cp for the articles.

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Lost User

leckey wrote:

What is that supposed to mean?

That if your not with us your against us. If you don't agree with me 100% your anti-semetic or zionist or whatever the term is. People should be able to disagree without being branded a racist, from a lot of articles in the press over here and arguements on CP Jews seem to brand people racist if they aren't agreeing with them.

Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004

Lost User

S Douglas wrote:

Really? Why not just change the email address assigned to the CP account here and be done with it? Why make some public announcement?

Like I said in replies to others in this thread, the member count is prominent on the front page, it is used as a metric to sell it's marketability to advertisers. It is not a true reflection of active users and if someone wants out they should have the ability to do so.

Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004

S Douglas

Michael Martin wrote:

Like I said in replies to others in this thread,

Sorry didn’t read all of the thread, well initially I did and its grown a little since then.

Michael Martin wrote:

the member count is prominent on the front page, it is used as a metric to sell it's marketability to advertisers. It is not a true reflection of active users and if someone wants out they should have the ability to do so.

Maybe it’s just me, but I leave worrying about stuff like that up to Chris. It’s his site and he is the one ultimately responsible to his advertisers & bill collectors. I'm just a guest here. Are there things that I don’t like, yup, do I whine about them, nope. When I find something particularly annoying do I post it in the correct forum (well mostly) or send it to him directly.

I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

Dave Kreskowiak

ahz wrote:

in concept, but not in syntax.

There's a thin line there. I'll just leave it at this point: C# adn VB.NET can be converted back and forth on a near line-by-line basis. One line in C# can be translated into one line in VB.NET, with the reverse being true too...

Object myObj = new Object;

is exactly the same as

Dim myObj As New Object

If you understand just this much, you can convert ALOT of the C# code you see. Calling methods and setting properties on those objects is no different in C# than it is in VB.NET.

ahz wrote:

in how to build a castle when someone asks how to build a two-room cottage

That's not his point. His point was that the responses he got were in a different language. He can still build the castle, it's just a matter of the building materials, not the size of the building. He even said it himself. If the code snippets were in VB.NET, he would not have called the responses SPAM.

ahz wrote:

you need to grow up.

And you need to read his posts closer...

Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic