Bugs and Suggestions

28-Dec-20 2:19

I guess I'm just really good at making friends ! There were a few little -2 hits in the last couple of weeks but no big deal - but sometimes, as in this web snippet, it's a bit puzzling. Two of the other three answers also said, essentially, do your own homework and were not similarly embellished.

Well, I guess it will take just a bit longer to catch up to OG.

Anyone else enjoying this "visitor" or do I get to feel really special ?

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Richard MacCutchan28-Dec-20 4:19

Richard MacCutchan

28-Dec-20 4:19

Not me. Looks like it's personal.

W∴ Balboos, GHB28-Dec-20 4:25

28-Dec-20 4:25

Thanks - just curious. Fortunately, I don't plan on winning anything with points (there are prizes, right?). They're sort of bit of a place keeper to see if anyone even notices what one posts.

I think I'll take this genius' remarks as a compliment to something, somewhere, that really got to their core. It really is sort of a compliment !

Now, on with living: I have to work on the options (replies) for that screen capture thing I posted that will work in the Win7/.NET 4.7.0/VS2015 world in which I need to make it happen.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Sean Ewington28-Dec-20 4:40

Sean Ewington

28-Dec-20 4:40

The question is now closed, so I can't see the vote. If the trend continues, please let me know.

But I'd also like to use this opportunity to remind everyone not to suggest to users that they are submitting their homework/homework questions. Sometimes it turns out to be much older users who are not students, and then using CodeProject becomes a bad experience for them.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

W∴ Balboos, GHB28-Dec-20 5:09

28-Dec-20 5:09

OK - let's (for the moment) accept your preposition that it might not be homework.

So often, however, the initial problem is specified in prose that surely seem like a class assignment. How might this be addressed? In admittedly either/or terms, how do we handle such posts in the weighing of the probability of it being an old timer trying to learn new tricks vs. an apprentice leach?

The closest to resolution that comes to mind is prefacing with "this seems like it might be a homework question".

Surely we don't want to punish the guilty - in what seems ofttimes like a barrel of bad apples, there may yet be some yet unspoiled.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Sean Ewington28-Dec-20 5:55

Sean Ewington

28-Dec-20 5:55

OriginalGriff and I have talked about this before. His answer is pretty good:

"We are more than willing to help those that are stuck: but that doesn't mean that we are here to do it all for you! We can't do all the work, it wouldn't be at all fair for us to do it all for you.

So we need you to do the work, and we will help you when you get stuck. That doesn't mean we will give you a step by step solution you can hand in! Start by explaining where you are at the moment, and what the next step in the process is. Then tell us what you have tried to get that next step working, and what happened when you did."

But since this isn't really a solution, but an offering for the user to revisit their thought process, this is best posted as a comment.

Also, if in a lot of these cases, these users don't seem to re-think anything, and the question doesn't get answered, just report the question and it will be removed in time.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

W∴ Balboos, GHB28-Dec-20 6:07

28-Dec-20 6:07

Just something for you to check into:

So just after I replied to you I got hit again. Since it was -16, you may wish to check if was the same user, and if so, how they can do it twice to the same Answer posting.

Other than that, I'll try to take both of the above into consideration. A boilerplate is really useful - can be more detailed without burden, and put in as a comment (although I'll never reach 2x10⁷ points that way*).

* . . . to reach for the stars when your arms are too weary, . . . to dream the impossible dream.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

User 1499778228-Dec-20 8:21

User 14997782

28-Dec-20 8:21

What kind of poor nature are you? Whining about -16 and not mention the +40 which are most probably not earned?

modified 25-Jan-21 21:01pm.

Sean Ewington28-Dec-20 11:11

Sean Ewington

28-Dec-20 11:11

I'm not sure about the time markings on the Reputation, but I opened the question so I could look at the votes before closing it again. Two separate, high-level members downvoted your answer.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

W∴ Balboos, GHB29-Dec-20 0:51

29-Dec-20 0:51

Sean Ewington wrote:
Two separate, high-level members downvoted your answer

As Kurt Vonnegutt put it "and so it goes".

At least the voting still is limited to one-to-one (the useful reason to reopen it and check).

Thanks for making sure things keep rolling along.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

BabyYoda1-Jan-21 4:42

BabyYoda

1-Jan-21 4:42

Why do you worry about points?

W∴ Balboos, GHB4-Jan-21 1:17

Import GitHub Project generates wrong links

4-Jan-21 1:17

Because they're there?

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov27-Dec-20 16:17

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

27-Dec-20 16:17

The anchor text contents are "Download latest Repository Archive" and "Download local copy", the referenced content is

{
  "message": "Not Found",
  "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest"
}

Are there some requirements I missed and should meet to resolve it? It is possible to comment out the links manually from a CodeProject post and rely on explicitly written links, but next push of the content to GitHub will restore them.

All for all, this GitHub-CodeProject integration looks impressive.

Thank you.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Re: Import GitHub Project generates wrong links

Chris Maunder30-Dec-20 8:00

Chris Maunder

30-Dec-20 8:00

Which article is this? We'll dig in and check

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Import GitHub Project generates wrong links

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov30-Dec-20 8:43

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

30-Dec-20 8:43

This is the second time I saw it. The first case was here: State Machine Framework in C, but now this problem is fixed, as I thought, by the author himself.

Later, I decided to try it out myself, as I had a suitable GitHub project, as a way to integrate all existing and future CodeProject publications on this project. I reproduced this problem on the project I posted: Microtonal Fabric. At the moment of writing, those two links are manually removed by editing the CodeProject article, but, naturally, they will appear again on the push from GitHub.

Thank you and Happy New Year!

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Your reaction isn't anonymous!

Greg Utas27-Dec-20 8:35

Greg Utas

27-Dec-20 8:35

When I mouse over the reaction icon in my post below, I can see who the reactor was!

EDIT: It works even if the post wasn't mine.

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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Chris Maunder27-Dec-20 14:38

Chris Maunder

27-Dec-20 14:38

Yes you can.

cheers
Chris Maunder

W∴ Balboos, GHB30-Dec-20 5:39

30-Dec-20 5:39

I think we can can consider that a vaccine against drive-by reactions.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Chris Maunder30-Dec-20 8:01

Chris Maunder

30-Dec-20 8:01

One or two shots?

cheers
Chris Maunder

W∴ Balboos, GHB30-Dec-20 8:03

30-Dec-20 8:03

Depends upon who's being designated as the driver, doesn't it? (and I get a double entendre out of it, too!)

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010