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  • B BillWoodruff

    You are comparing the feeding-frenzy of sharks with the orderly migration of Emperor Penguins.

    "What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts. Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett

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    Albert Holguin
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    I do walk a little funny when it gets cold outside... ;P :laugh:

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    • M Marc Clifton

      Code Project excels at articles. I may be thrown into the deepest level of hell for saying this, but I think CP's Q&A is pretty abysmal. The presentation is terrible in my opinion (and it's currently broken so I can't even point to specific things, but layout and unnecessary information (like who and when taking up huge amounts of horizontal bandwidth, and things like "your filters", "tags", and "top experts" taking up more vast amounts of real estate, and I really don't give a rats arse about how many views a question has had...anyways, you get the idea. And with stackoverflow, its presentation (while also not the greatest) at least isn't screaming at me with big bold blocks of orange and hyper-large fonts. I realize that CP wants its own branding so one has to go with whatever presentation format makes CP unique, but content-wise, stackoverflow also is so much richer and broader in community support. CP is still too much in the Microsoft camp for me to find it useful for non-Microsoft Q&A, and when it comes to Microsoft-related stuff, stackoverflow still is my first choice. That, and yes, the online MSDN documentation and bloggers, especially when it comes to more arcane things in the Microsoft world like F#. My 2c. Marc

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      Lost User
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      :thumbsup: for honest review. Second link for stackoverflow vs codeproject[^] showed this comment Similar features were under discussion long before the release of SO, as the CP forums had become clogged with off-topic, poorly-asked questions. Unfortunately, it doesn't offer any equivalent to the close and delete features of SO, so there's no good way to quickly shut down duplicate questions or questions that are missing necessary information. CP would do well to look to SO for improvements. And this was in 2009 so I wonder why QA section has not been improved on CP ?

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      • L Lost User

        Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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        Possibly, but the reason I am here rather than there is the people. Generally, the people here are more friendly, tolerant, and generally knowledgeable than the bunch of rep obsessed sense-of-humor-failures that inhabit SO. There are exceptions here, of course. If your answer is misspelled, or contradicts someones opinion (despite being correct) it gets abuse votes or removed... Bunch of onanists, most of 'em!

        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
        "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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          Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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          joginder banger
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          it's my opinion both are best Stackoverflow:-this website is provide best solution any type of problem, like that math,Desktop and so. more advance user then a code project use. code Project:- Best site for me i pick up a complete solution, articles good understanding with simple language one more advance thing is articles with example. In my office more guy's are used codeproject

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            :thumbsup: for honest review. Second link for stackoverflow vs codeproject[^] showed this comment Similar features were under discussion long before the release of SO, as the CP forums had become clogged with off-topic, poorly-asked questions. Unfortunately, it doesn't offer any equivalent to the close and delete features of SO, so there's no good way to quickly shut down duplicate questions or questions that are missing necessary information. CP would do well to look to SO for improvements. And this was in 2009 so I wonder why QA section has not been improved on CP ?

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            BobJanova
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            That's not entirely accurate, members of a certain level (Gold in the right category maybe) can edit and delete questions. I think some of it is a philosophical thing though – here at CP we try to leave things open as much as possible, so you inevitably get junk content, whereas SO is more about preserving the cleanliness and quality of its posted material.

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            • L Lost User

              Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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              Ravi Bhavnani
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              learner'sbug wrote:

              stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google

              Without a doubt. SO has a very well monitored and vetted Q/A system.  I find answers on SO much more helpful than CP.  On the flip side, CP provides the best organized collection of fully-functional sample MS code I've seen on the web. /ravi

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                Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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                Adam Yhap
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                Codeproject > stackoverflow They don't even have a little alien.

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                  Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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                  Agree with Ravi. But Codeproject has massive compilation articles* which equals to "N number of answers". *Sample one - CodeProject Frequently Asked Questions Series 1: The ASP.NET GridView[^]. Search for articles in CP with keywords "how to", "tips", "tricks", etc.,

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                    Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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                    Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                    I see less codez please on Stack Overflow.

                    Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch

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                    • J joginder banger

                      it's my opinion both are best Stackoverflow:-this website is provide best solution any type of problem, like that math,Desktop and so. more advance user then a code project use. code Project:- Best site for me i pick up a complete solution, articles good understanding with simple language one more advance thing is articles with example. In my office more guy's are used codeproject

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                      BillW33
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                      I have to argee that both Codeproject and stackoverflow are very helpful sites.

                      Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

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                      • M Marc Clifton

                        Code Project excels at articles. I may be thrown into the deepest level of hell for saying this, but I think CP's Q&A is pretty abysmal. The presentation is terrible in my opinion (and it's currently broken so I can't even point to specific things, but layout and unnecessary information (like who and when taking up huge amounts of horizontal bandwidth, and things like "your filters", "tags", and "top experts" taking up more vast amounts of real estate, and I really don't give a rats arse about how many views a question has had...anyways, you get the idea. And with stackoverflow, its presentation (while also not the greatest) at least isn't screaming at me with big bold blocks of orange and hyper-large fonts. I realize that CP wants its own branding so one has to go with whatever presentation format makes CP unique, but content-wise, stackoverflow also is so much richer and broader in community support. CP is still too much in the Microsoft camp for me to find it useful for non-Microsoft Q&A, and when it comes to Microsoft-related stuff, stackoverflow still is my first choice. That, and yes, the online MSDN documentation and bloggers, especially when it comes to more arcane things in the Microsoft world like F#. My 2c. Marc

                        Day 1: Spider Database Navigator Unit Testing Succinctly

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                        devenv exe
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                        Completely agree, also unlike CP, on SO the gurus & ninjas do keep their Self-esteems/egos on the door. Here if a new member posts a 'stupid' question, they are whipped into oblivion unlike SO And we all know Google needs the masses for it to do no evil.

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          Possibly, but the reason I am here rather than there is the people. Generally, the people here are more friendly, tolerant, and generally knowledgeable than the bunch of rep obsessed sense-of-humor-failures that inhabit SO. There are exceptions here, of course. If your answer is misspelled, or contradicts someones opinion (despite being correct) it gets abuse votes or removed... Bunch of onanists, most of 'em!

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                          TnTinMn
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                          :thumbsup: for the new word you taught me today. I'm not certain that knowing it has enriched my life though.:~ I hate to think what list the NSA has put me one for googling it. :doh:

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                            :thumbsup: for the new word you taught me today. I'm not certain that knowing it has enriched my life though.:~ I hate to think what list the NSA has put me one for googling it. :doh:

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                            OriginalGriff
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                            I knew that bible study they made me do at school would come in handy one day! :laugh:

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                              Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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                              Jorgen Andersson
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                              If I understand it correctly, SO has a few people employed to answer and moderate questions. This is AFAIK not the case on Codeproject.

                              Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

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                              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                I knew that bible study they made me do at school would come in handy one day! :laugh:

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                                Jorgen Andersson
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                                It's indeed interesting that you can find a paraphrase for wanker in the bible. Or is it the opposite way around? Then again, if I remember the bible correctly there's nothing in it that says that Onan was a wanker for real. Maybe he literally spilled his seeds, as in seeds that grows up to become wheat.

                                Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

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                                • M Marc Clifton

                                  Code Project excels at articles. I may be thrown into the deepest level of hell for saying this, but I think CP's Q&A is pretty abysmal. The presentation is terrible in my opinion (and it's currently broken so I can't even point to specific things, but layout and unnecessary information (like who and when taking up huge amounts of horizontal bandwidth, and things like "your filters", "tags", and "top experts" taking up more vast amounts of real estate, and I really don't give a rats arse about how many views a question has had...anyways, you get the idea. And with stackoverflow, its presentation (while also not the greatest) at least isn't screaming at me with big bold blocks of orange and hyper-large fonts. I realize that CP wants its own branding so one has to go with whatever presentation format makes CP unique, but content-wise, stackoverflow also is so much richer and broader in community support. CP is still too much in the Microsoft camp for me to find it useful for non-Microsoft Q&A, and when it comes to Microsoft-related stuff, stackoverflow still is my first choice. That, and yes, the online MSDN documentation and bloggers, especially when it comes to more arcane things in the Microsoft world like F#. My 2c. Marc

                                  Day 1: Spider Database Navigator Unit Testing Succinctly

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                                  Dan Neely
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                                  Agreed. Your descriptions match how I use CP and SO as well.

                                  Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                                  • J Jorgen Andersson

                                    If I understand it correctly, SO has a few people employed to answer and moderate questions. This is AFAIK not the case on Codeproject.

                                    Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

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                                    I thought CP also have some moderators who get paid.

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                                      Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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                                      Joseph Adaoag
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                                      I don't know why but this came to mind. http://www.dorkly.com/comic/57406/the-pc-vs-console-argument-basically[^]

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                                      • Kornfeld Eliyahu PeterK Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

                                        There is a simple solution for that. Search programming answers inside CP side and not Google...

                                        I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).

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                                        R_L_H
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                                        Or search this:

                                        How do I turn on my PC site:codeproject.com

                                        Just throw the "site:" option at the end of your search, and Google will strictly search the specified web site.

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                                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                          Possibly, but the reason I am here rather than there is the people. Generally, the people here are more friendly, tolerant, and generally knowledgeable than the bunch of rep obsessed sense-of-humor-failures that inhabit SO. There are exceptions here, of course. If your answer is misspelled, or contradicts someones opinion (despite being correct) it gets abuse votes or removed... Bunch of onanists, most of 'em!

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                                          OriginalGriff wrote:

                                          someone's opinion

                                          FTFY... ;)

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