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I see in the newsletter you are *still* looking for developers to work on CodeProject and still insisting they live in Toronto. All the talent available here cut off without any consideration, seems a little weird. I'm sure there are a lot of 'talented, highly motivated, detail oriented, team players' here, as the cliche, goes who would be willing to help out in many ways. I can't fathom any good reason for this and am very curious why this would be.
I'm just idly curious, I don't actually care either way but it seems so counterintuitive I just have to ask -- what's up with that?
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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John Cardinal wrote: I can't fathom any good reason for this and am very curious why this would be.
Experience. We've had, and have, offsite developers and we've found it takes a very, very special type of person to be able to work as efficiently offsite as they do onsite. We're not doing this on a whim.
We're also looking for a Dev Lead and a Dev Lead who isn't in the office is ineffective as a mentor, guide, constant reassuring presence, sounding board and instant second pair of eyes.
Finally, we want a team. A group who work together, enjoy each other's company, who can chat in a relaxed fashion about work problems and get those "ah ha!" moments you don't get in formal settings. We want a group who will hang around and play video games, or develop rivalries and try and out-do each other.
I don't want developers just to do the work. I want that human touch that makes a group of developers bigger than the sum of the parts and an office full of bright, dedicated people who care about each other and care about what we're doing.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I'd apply, but that 270 mile commute is a bitch... 
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: I'd apply, but that 270 mile commute is a bitch...
What about my 7 hour flight every day!
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At least you get to get up, stretch, walk around the plane, get some work done, take a nap, ... all while someone else drives! 
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Sod that for a game of soldiers. I want to fly the plane as well.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I've stopped receiving emails when someone replies to my post or posts a note in one of my article forums. I get the CP newsletter just fine. This started happening about a month ago.
Anyone else having this problem?
/ravi
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I did, at around the same period; they kicked in again after about a week. There was a shorter blackout about a week ago.
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- C hris L osinger, Online Poker Players?
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I've had the opposite problem. I get post response emails just fine, but I haven't been getting any newsletters since early July.
Grim (aka Toby) MCDBA, MCSD, MCP+SB
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I know this has been talked about a lot here lately, but I noticed something today that I have to comment on. I attempted to start a "Forum" on the site. I described my attempt in the Lounge here[^].
As far as I can tell, my "Forum" hasn't showed up. But I noticed that they had removed my posts to the plagiarised articles. I joined their site; it was the only way I could post a message. And posted to two of my plagiarised articles stating that they had copied my articles and gave a link to the original article here at Code Project. Those posts are gone.
So I'm guessing that the administrator saw my "Forum" attempt, looked at the plagiarised articles, and removed my posts but left the articles up.
Man, I gotta say, these are some brazen thieves.
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Yeah, they're a bunch of idiots.
I even found the unnoficial BuzzyCode blog[^]. Every single blog post highlights one of "their" articles. They've been doing this for at least the last 3 months...
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I think that "Search comments" feature doesn't work well if you set as "Author" someone that uses a not-standard username ... i.e. if he has added some HTML command there.
I got "No results found" .... 
I'm in wrong?
Russell
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I don't think so. I tried with a couple of them using FONT tags and it seems to be fine. Do you have any specific username that is failing?
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Do you have any specific username that is failing?
Sure!
You can pick 2 members from the first page of this forum:
brahmma
Jay Gatsby
with you it is working...strange...you use a blu text...
Russell
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thanks for all the members in the board for the response i got for the suggestion i made.
lets wait till chris maunder and co implements any logic for this, till then as our part, we shall frequently keep posting it in the normal forums.
such that, more number of people will see this and impolement it. no sooner, iam sure that, every body follows that.
many more thanks to Russel, who put it in the suggestions forum.
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See here[^].
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
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chandu004 wrote: such that, more number of people will see this and impolement it.
They don't even come back to say "Thank you" and you want them to come back and modify their post?? That's just not going to happen...
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: They don't even come back
There is a way to make them come back anyway. Since in the notification email, CP sends the entire reply, they just get the full text answer at the comfort of thier email box. We can bring in a check that only first 30 characters or like that would be attached in the notification email being sent. Rest of the message should be visited on the website.
Also, for the sake of members with increased (or elevated) number of posts, this character count can be gradually increased. Platinum/Fixture members can get the full message. Wouldn't that be enough to make them feel grateful to the answerer? 
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Ok, they come back....but, as Dave tell, rarely they tells "thank you".
education!
Russell
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: CP sends the entire reply
No, it doesn't. It just sends the first few lines of the reply. There is always a link the recipient can click on to go the entire post on the site.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: We can bring in a check that only first 30 characters or like that would be attached in the notification email being sent.
Bad idea. 30 characters is utterly uninformative and just wastes the time sending the email. You may as well just put "Someone replied to your post!" and leave it at that. I for one, HATE those emails and don't use sites that send only that kind of message. I like to be reminded of what I was talking about in the post's thread.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Also, for the sake of members with increased (or elevated) number of posts, this character count can be gradually increased. Platinum/Fixture members can get the full message. Wouldn't that be enough to make them feel grateful to the answerer?
And an ever increasing load on the servers as more and more of these "with greater post count" ideas just keep getting piled on. And no, it's wouldn't give ME an impression that they feel "grateful" for an answer.
Obviously, you've never heard the expression "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."
Sure, you can send the person an email to get him back to the site. There's nothing you can do to get a person to change his post's status, or even vote on the response he/she got.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Obviously, you've never heard the expression "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."
There is a very interesting equivalent vernacular saying in our area which just is equivalent to this:
"You can only give the banana or de-skin it and give the banana to a person. At best, for a patient, you can take it upto his mouth. But rest taking it from there, is upto him". (The translation might not be that much effective though. But Tamil CPians would be able to better appreciate that. )
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Following the previous heated discussions, I have emailed to CyberCrime, Chennai and also I checked with my friend, who is practicing as an advocate in Chennai on how to deal with this issue.
He was suggesting to contact Kerala Law Department, who are currently in charge of IPR. A quick Google got me the following URLs:
http://www.keralalawsect.org/ipr.html[^]
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If you have an inquiry regarding Law Department contact via e-mail or post.
This site is managed by Law Department, Government of Kerala.
Email : asnodal@keralalawsect.org
Regular Mail :
The Law Secretary,
Law Department,
Government Secretariat,
Thiruvananthapuram
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But rather than me emailing them, now it would be better that a competant authority in CodeProject to write them either surface mail or via email complaining about the atrocities committed and unleashed by the LogicIndia group. I think you would have also read through Tony John's comments over here (http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=2209099&mode=all&userid=52123#xx2209099xx[^]) and hence since he says he is currently in Houston, TX; US CPians can better rescue DotNetSpider which is aimed at helping freshers out of this vicious treacherous forgers' group of LogicIndia.
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:Pounds fist on desk: This kind of **** ****in' pisses me off! Someone should sue their ***es!
-Gatsby
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Jay Gatsby wrote: Someone should sue their ***es!
and just in the wide open. Only then would the people realise their folly.
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