Im tired
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Im tired with programming, tired with the quality of this site going downhill, tired of the poor quality of articles... can anyone suggest any better sites that are a better quality?
Then do something about it - help us improve the quality. Don't just winge about it - fix it.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
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Im tired with programming, tired with the quality of this site going downhill, tired of the poor quality of articles... can anyone suggest any better sites that are a better quality?
GriffinPeter wrote:
better quality
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Im tired with programming, tired with the quality of this site going downhill, tired of the poor quality of articles... can anyone suggest any better sites that are a better quality?
Relax. The site is actually great. :)
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This site is a victim of too much love. There's just as many good articles as there ever were, there's just more bad ones than there used to be as the community has grown. There's not a better developer community on the web, that's for sure. The one place that I get frustrated is the low level of questions asked, but, that's just a sign of the times, that happens everywhere else, too.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
We just need the option to filter out low quality stuff or view only the good stuff.
Todd Smith
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Im tired with programming, tired with the quality of this site going downhill, tired of the poor quality of articles... can anyone suggest any better sites that are a better quality?
GriffinPeter wrote:
Im tired with programming
Okay; find something else to do for a living then. There are all sorts of interesting professions out there, from thoracic surgeon to gigolo to Presbyterian minister to bag-person.
GriffinPeter wrote:
tired with the quality of this site going downhill
I'll debate you on that one. I believe CP as a site has continually improved in the time I've been here. The folks running the place do a bang-up job of keeping it running reliably under ever-increasing traffic loads and evermore rebellious hamsters. I'm especially impressed given that CP would have to be a moderately high profile target for net vandals (Microsoft-centric developers? are you kidding? they'd love it).
GriffinPeter wrote:
tired of the poor quality of articles
<Stewie_voice> Then write some of your own, damn you! </Stewie_voice>
GriffinPeter wrote:
can anyone suggest any better sites that are a better quality?
No. Please note how I restrained myself from noting how rude your question is to the people who run CP. It's like standing in the middle of a tavern and shouting "WHERE'S A BAR WITH BETTER DRINKS?".
Software Zen:
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Then do something about it - help us improve the quality. Don't just winge about it - fix it.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
winge
Is that a Newcastle derivative of whinge?
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 One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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GriffinPeter wrote:
Im tired with programming
Okay; find something else to do for a living then. There are all sorts of interesting professions out there, from thoracic surgeon to gigolo to Presbyterian minister to bag-person.
GriffinPeter wrote:
tired with the quality of this site going downhill
I'll debate you on that one. I believe CP as a site has continually improved in the time I've been here. The folks running the place do a bang-up job of keeping it running reliably under ever-increasing traffic loads and evermore rebellious hamsters. I'm especially impressed given that CP would have to be a moderately high profile target for net vandals (Microsoft-centric developers? are you kidding? they'd love it).
GriffinPeter wrote:
tired of the poor quality of articles
<Stewie_voice> Then write some of your own, damn you! </Stewie_voice>
GriffinPeter wrote:
can anyone suggest any better sites that are a better quality?
No. Please note how I restrained myself from noting how rude your question is to the people who run CP. It's like standing in the middle of a tavern and shouting "WHERE'S A BAR WITH BETTER DRINKS?".
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
It's like standing in the middle of a tavern and shouting "WHERE'S A BAR WITH BETTER DRINKS?".
My house!
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 One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
It's like standing in the middle of a tavern and shouting "WHERE'S A BAR WITH BETTER DRINKS?".
My house!
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 One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Hey Everybody! Let's drop in at the Martin's house. Open bar!!
BDF People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous. -- Moliere
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
It's like standing in the middle of a tavern and shouting "WHERE'S A BAR WITH BETTER DRINKS?".
My house!
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 One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Yeah, but we've got to get you to share some, now don't we Mick? :laugh:
Software Zen:
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Yeah, but we've got to get you to share some, now don't we Mick? :laugh:
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Yeah, but we've got to get you to share some, now don't we Mick? :laugh:
Not as hard as you would think, I just buy more.
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 One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Im tired with programming, tired with the quality of this site going downhill, tired of the poor quality of articles... can anyone suggest any better sites that are a better quality?
GriffinPeter wrote:
Im tired with programming
So try something else. I've been a dishwasher, cook, mechanic, waiter, salesman, stock broker, real estate broker, parts counter clerk, hardware store manager, restaurant manager, PC repairman, college teacher, karate teacher, electronics engineer, electrical engineer, plus a few dozen hobbies I could turn into a career. Sometimes I program a little, too. Lots of choices out there...
GriffinPeter wrote:
tired with the quality of this site going downhill
Hmmm. I've been here since the beginning, though I just missed the birth announcement, and all I've noticed is steady improvement. You should have seen the days when the site crashed with more than 1,000 users online. It was pretty grim. Sure, we've got more morons posting these days, but there's no entrance exam, and we're approaching 6 million members. I find it easy enough to ignore the few bad apples in the barrel.
GriffinPeter wrote:
tired of the poor quality of articles
So, what have you contributed? Maybe you can help reverse the trend, if trend it is. In a day when people actually publish their most idiotic moments for all to see on MySpace, FaceBook, and YouTube, is it any wonder that newbies are inclined to share their exceedingly minor moments of programming discovery with the rest of us? Globalization is also partly to blame, as we have members from all around the world, and English is not a required subject in schools everywhere. To say that some of the writing skills seen displayed here are 'quaint' is to be overly generous, but they're trying. Hell, I wrote one of the all time worst articles ever posted here, and all I got was helpful, patient responses from the very decent folks who dwell among us. I only posted it because I felt guilty for having learned so much here, and returned so little. Maybe somebody even newer might learn from what I did, I thought, so I posted it. Nobody bitched about standards slipping then.
GriffinPeter wrote:
can anyone suggest any better sites that are a better quality?
I've never seen one, nor has anyone else here. We'd be there if such a place existed. If you're not happy here, you're going to be miserable elsewhere, but I encourage you to look. Unhappy members make for unhappy sites, so I suggest that you
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This site is a victim of too much love. There's just as many good articles as there ever were, there's just more bad ones than there used to be as the community has grown. There's not a better developer community on the web, that's for sure. The one place that I get frustrated is the low level of questions asked, but, that's just a sign of the times, that happens everywhere else, too.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
winge
Is that a Newcastle derivative of whinge?
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 One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
It's a 7th pint version. I'm sure you can appreciate how the pint in the hand can interfere with the fingers on the keyboard.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Yeah, but we've got to get you to share some, now don't we Mick? :laugh:
Not as hard as you would think, I just buy more.
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 One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Yeah, but we've got
toget you to share some, now don't we Mick? Laugh Not as hard as you would think, I just buy more.You missed the first "to". Gary didn't call your generosity a problem, the problem is your living at the antipodes. :doh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Im tired with programming, tired with the quality of this site going downhill, tired of the poor quality of articles... can anyone suggest any better sites that are a better quality?
GriffinPeter wrote:
tired of the poor quality of articles
Try the Penthouse forums...I hear those are great articles.
GriffinPeter wrote:
can anyone suggest any better sites that are a better quality?
Yes. *********************************************************************************************** Disclaimer: This response is probably the exact thing you're whinning and crying about, but won't do anything active to make it better. This response is the type that gets posted to the URGENTZ and homework messages. If these were to stop, these responses would stop...life would be good.
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GriffinPeter wrote:
Im tired with programming
Okay; find something else to do for a living then. There are all sorts of interesting professions out there, from thoracic surgeon to gigolo to Presbyterian minister to bag-person.
GriffinPeter wrote:
tired with the quality of this site going downhill
I'll debate you on that one. I believe CP as a site has continually improved in the time I've been here. The folks running the place do a bang-up job of keeping it running reliably under ever-increasing traffic loads and evermore rebellious hamsters. I'm especially impressed given that CP would have to be a moderately high profile target for net vandals (Microsoft-centric developers? are you kidding? they'd love it).
GriffinPeter wrote:
tired of the poor quality of articles
<Stewie_voice> Then write some of your own, damn you! </Stewie_voice>
GriffinPeter wrote:
can anyone suggest any better sites that are a better quality?
No. Please note how I restrained myself from noting how rude your question is to the people who run CP. It's like standing in the middle of a tavern and shouting "WHERE'S A BAR WITH BETTER DRINKS?".
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
to gigolo
I considered that once... after all as a govt. contractor I already have the experience....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
to gigolo
I considered that once... after all as a govt. contractor I already have the experience....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
I was a high-paid whore myself at one time. We had a task-order contract for the USAF. We'd get a phone call asking for some sort of military-inspired perversion, my boss would pick one of us skanks to implement it, and the company founders made a pile of money. We bitches got slapped and put back on the street when the founders neglected to work on getting the contract renewed.
Software Zen:
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Michael Martin wrote:
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Yeah, but we've got
toget you to share some, now don't we Mick? Laugh Not as hard as you would think, I just buy more.You missed the first "to". Gary didn't call your generosity a problem, the problem is your living at the antipodes. :doh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
dan neely wrote:
You missed the first "to". Gary didn't call your generosity a problem, the problem is your living at the antipodes. :doh:
Didn't miss it first time and after another 17 readings I still don't think I missed anything. Gary was taking the piss, not about my unwillingness to share cause I'm stingy, just that I drink so much there wouldn't be enough for anybody else. All in fun.
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 One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
