Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004340 More actions · Answer 1

GSquared (4/6/2009)
I noticed that a lot of the pages here slowed down like crazy when the prettier code blocks were added in. There's a script that formats them, and I get warnings from the browser about a long-running script, if the code blocks are very large or there are a lot of them on a page.

Heh... I wouldn't mind the slowness that has occurred recently if the damned code blocks and the normal text windows actually worked as well as they used to.

Steve, how's that list I gave you and Phil coming along? It's been a couple of weeks now.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398882 More actions · Answer 2

Best wishes Roy.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 3

Prayers for you and your family Roy.

Jack Corbett
Consultant - Straight Path Solutions
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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 4

Roy, you and your family are in our thoughts and prayers.

The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 5

Boy, what great timing. I just started an offshoot thread here.

Steve, I really enjoyed the "Manners'' podcast. We all need to be reminded of "The Golden Rule" and you handled that very well. Someone recently told me that it's very easy to be mistaken about someone's tone in an online thread, because all the visual and audio cues we rely on are missing. Supposedly, that's why smileys/emoticons were created.

Good job!

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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
Stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. -- Stephen Stills

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 6

Thanks, Bob. I almost didn't run that one. It grew out of a few threads over the last month or so. Had me a little exasperated one day.

Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 7

Steve Jones - Editor (4/6/2009)
Thanks, Bob. I almost didn't run that one. It grew out of a few threads over the last month or so. Had me a little exasperated one day.

It's always good to have an opportunity to vent, and I don't mean the Coors way. I think you did in the right way, and, I think, that a lot of people just don't know that they have done anything that was offensive or frustrating to others, so hopefully the editorial will make them think.

Jack Corbett
Consultant - Straight Path Solutions
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 8

Jeff,

We have two developments ongoing. One was our regular developer/week a month that I believe tried to fix some code items. Those are in test now, AFAIK. We have a larger development effort underway as well to improve a few things on the site. Not sure if there is any overlap here with a few of the items on the list.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004340 More actions · Answer 9

Steve Jones - Editor (4/6/2009)
Jeff,
We have two developments ongoing. One was our regular developer/week a month that I believe tried to fix some code items. Those are in test now, AFAIK. We have a larger development effort underway as well to improve a few things on the site. Not sure if there is any overlap here with a few of the items on the list.

Cool. Thanks, Steve. Lemme know if you need someone on the "outside" to test for you. It would be my pleasure.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 10

Thanks everyone for the wishes... I really appreciate it.

God Bless you all.

-Roy

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 11

Well, we just got a call tonight, my wife's aunt died today. Apparently there won't be a funeral, so not sure what is going on there. Hit my wife pretty hard as she was named after her aunt. Just leaves her mom and uncle (her dad's oldest brother).

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 12

Then we have a user having a problem with a restore, and they post this and this instead of what the real problem is.

Jeffrey Williams SSC Guru Points: 90303 More actions · Answer 13

Lynn Pettis (4/6/2009)
Then we have a user having a problem with a restore, and they post this and this instead of what the real problem is.

Yes, and Saint Lynn is being very patient with them - much more so than most. :hehe:

Jeffrey Williams
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

― Charles R. Swindoll

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 14

Death can hit you pretty hard. My Mo0m is pretty hard hit. She is not sleeping at all and that is what Me ansd my Bro is worried about. Hope it changes.

And it is no surprise that Lynn is dealing very patiently. He is THE SAINT.. 🙂

Next I want to see Lynn being nominated as MVP...

-Roy

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 15

Roy Ernest (4/6/2009)
And it is no surprise that Lynn is dealing very patiently. He is THE SAINT.. 🙂
Next I want to see Lynn being nominated as MVP...

I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not sure that I really qualify. I look at the people I know here on SSC (Jeff, Gail, Grant, Steve) as well as a few here where I live, and I may be good, but I'm not sure if I am there yet.