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    Replied To a Post in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    Because in latin it likely won't be recognized as that, and it is the simplest form I have come across of the golden rule. I also believe that it could …
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    Replied To a Post in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    I was under the impression (based on the clear-as-mud procedure) that I would actually get to enter some text before sending a message. I don't care about what happens with …
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    Replied To a Post in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    Try lil_bot
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    Replied To a Post in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    No messages. Just an user placeholder with no conversation. I manually typed both usernames prior to testing to see if anything came up. Nothing did. Any username for which there …
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    Replied To a Post in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    I just tried this with two random members with whom I have never chatted. Both times I got "Continue chatting". Also, both names ended up in my conversation list even …
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    Ignorance begets confidence more often than knowledge. - Charles Darwin
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    Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon …
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    Replied To a Post in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    It was confusing because "send a PM" was a simple process. with a clear verb-noun command that was done from the obvious place - the member page of the user …
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    Gave Reputation to Dani in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    > I should be able to > * click on vegaseat > * type in a message box and click "Send PM" You should not have to go to the …
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    Replied To a Post in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    OK. Not that I would have guessed that but now that I know I will (probably) not forget it fot the next time. Thanks.
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    Can you provide more information? For example. you don't drag files onto a USB any more than you drag files onto a serial or parallel. You drag them onto a …
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    Replied To a Post in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    I understand your position. In the end I just rebuked vegaseat publicly without an infraction. It served two purposes. It reinforced the point that rproffitt was making and (I hope) …
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    Replied To a Post in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    >click the little speech bubble next to tour avatar from the top of any page Clear as mud. What is a `tour avatar`? If I click on the speech bubble …
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    Replied To a Post in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    While I am on the subject of PMs (as opposed to PMS), as a mod I tend to get a lot of "automated message" entries in my conversation list. I …
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    Replied To a Post in How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    That is excessively complex IMO. I was in [this thread](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/517869/python-program) and was disappointed, especially after rproffitt's great post, to see that vegaseat decided to reward lazy/bad behavior by just posting …
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    @vegaseat - As a long standing member you should know better than to reward lazy/bad behaviour.
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    Created How do I send a PM in the New Daniweb?

    I can't seem to find a way to send a PM. I tried going to the member's profile page but the PM area is gone.
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    It’s one thing to express your views. It’s another thing for those views to be different than mine. - Stephen Colbert (in character)
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    So you could go to the effort of typing "what are the different relational operators in python" into Daniweb but you couldn't be bothered to google "what are the different …
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    Gave Reputation to dukoolsharma in Explain relational operators in Python.

    what are the different relational operators in python?
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    If this be the whole fruit of victory, we say: if the generations of mankind suffered and laid down their lives; if prophets and martyrs sang in the fire, and …
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    Edited Write a main program that does the following

    I do the class but there are some codes I need to help me please : -Write a number of member functions that do the following: •Calculate the student GPA …
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    Replied To a Post in Help with my C++ program

    >if you remove this, the program may work No. It won't. Not even close.
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    Replied To a Post in Datagridview Control class

    I've always found the easy way is to create the control manually, then look at the `Form1.Designer.vb` code to see what the code looks like. Then you can adapt it …
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    I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance. - Jon Stewart
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    Edited Help with my C++ program

    I trying to write a code that reads a set of integers and then finds and prints the sum of the even and odd integers. The numbers will be read …
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    Replied To a Post in Help with my C++ program

    You are not even close to being done. 1. You only get input from the user once instead of within a loop 1. You do not need both `number` and …
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    Replied To a Post in New Android Phone is a Royal Pain

    The problems just kept piling up. Calibre kept reporting a communication error and nothing was showing up in Explorer so I reset to factory and started from scratch. Everything is …
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    As a closing gripe, when I cable to the phone I can open Explorer to the SD card. Even though I have copied several files to the card and can …
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    Marked Solved Status for New Android Phone is a Royal Pain

    After saying for the last 10 years that I would never own a cell phone (I had enough of that spending many years on call), I finally broke down and …
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    Replied To a Post in New Android Phone is a Royal Pain

    Figures. Android comes with a file explorer but I have to install another one. With all the crap that came bundled I am getting "low storage" notifications. I installed a …
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    Replied To a Post in Write a main program that does the following

    And what are you willing to pay to have someone do your homework for you?
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    Replied To a Post in New Android Phone is a Royal Pain

    OK. I have a workaround. If I 1. Press menu 1. swipe left 1. press Settings 1. Scroll down 1. Press Storage & USB 1. Scroll down 1. Press Explore …
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    Replied To a Post in New Android Phone is a Royal Pain

    No. It's more like being dropped into a foreign land without a phrasebook and no way to speak the language. The biggest hurdle is not learning a new way to …
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    Doesn't really help. Somehow a simple operation like 1. Copy my file to my phone 1. Look at it has become a technical nightmare. In any case, using the complicated …
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    I connected the phone via USB then browsed to `Internal Storage` and created the folder `Docs`. I then copied `medical history.txt` to that folder. When I use the phone's file …
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    Believing is seeing. - Offiicial motto of Trump's base.
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    Replied To a Post in New Android Phone is a Royal Pain

    How did it hppen that I can't look at a file on my phone unless I am online?
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    Created New Android Phone is a Royal Pain

    After saying for the last 10 years that I would never own a cell phone (I had enough of that spending many years on call), I finally broke down and …
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    Replied To a Post in Regular Expression to extract names

    I wasn't trying to overly complicate things. I assumed this is for an assignment and I've lost points because the marker said "you didn't consider...". I suppose the easiest thing …
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    >All of the strings have the names at the start of the line: That may be the case but how do you know where the name(s) end. For example: 1. …
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    >All of the strings have the names at the start of the line: That may be the case but how do you know where the name(s) end. For example: 1. …
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    Replied To a Post in How to make javascript app into exe?

    You can start by googling `how to convert node js script to exe`
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    Replied To a Post in Regular Expression to extract names

    >All of the strings have the names at the start of the line: That may be the case but how do you know where the name(s) end. For example: 1. …
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    Replied To a Post in Regular Expression to extract names

    While it's easy for a human to pick out the names by context, it's not so easy for code. How can you determine where the names end and the rest …
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    I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned. - Richard Feynman
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    Marked Solved Status for Why this code is not inserting the data on my SQL database

    $query = "INSERT INTO 'user-profiles' ('name', 'avatar', 'description', 'votes', 'pay_methods', 'location', 'user_id') VALUES ('sadj', 'qwesad', 'sadqwdqw', '0','sadsad', 'sadasdsad''4')"; $resultprof = $this -> conn -> query($query); votes and user_id are INT …
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    Replied To a Post in Why this code is not inserting the data on my SQL database

    The OP replied by PM (a no no) that he had mistyped the table name.
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    As a first attempt I suggest one loop that steps through the original string char by char as well as a boolean that you can set to true or false …

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