View Poll Results: Do you want a Compiler item to be added to the user profile?

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Thread: An improvement for the board...

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    Registered User Queatrix's Avatar
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    Thumbs up An improvement for the board...

    So many people now ask questions, and are asked what compiler they are using.

    I honestly think that adding a new item on the left side of your post (where the Location, Posts, and Join Date go) would be a good improvement for this board.

    That new item would be a Compiler item. Seeing how this board runs on PHP, it wouldn't be hard for the webmaster to do.

    It would prevent a great number of posts from being posted, and it's a lot more important than where you live.

    Please give your opinion on this idea, Queatrix.

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    I like it.
    My best code is written with the delete key.

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    If people don't put it on their signatures, why would they put it on some new field buried inside User CP options?

    And there's also the User Title.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mario
    If people don't put it on their signatures, why would they put it on some new field buried inside User CP options?

    And there's also the User Title.
    I see you point, but I noticed that you asked me in a thread just today what compiler I was using, even though it is in my sig.

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    (?<!re)tired Mario F.'s Avatar
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    Yes. That's because you made mention to something that I knew for a fact it wouldn't compile in any of the compilers you have in your sig. So I wondered what else were you using.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    >If people don't put it on their signatures, why would they put it on some new field buried inside User CP options?
    Because a User CP option would at least inform them that it's potentially useful information, as opposed to having them somehow divine that fact and put it in their signature.
    My best code is written with the delete key.

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    (?<!re)tired Mario F.'s Avatar
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    It won't take them more than a day on the boards for the idea of putting the compiler in their sig suddenly pop out in their heads

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    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    I see this as useful, though Dev-C++ is not a compiler.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
    Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

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    I used have them in my sig, then it wend all inviable, then that went away, and now it's colorful. Perhaps if it was a form on registration, just a tick option, if you get me.

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    Now, tell me my title isn't sexy.
    Sure beats the heck of my sig
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    The superhaterodyne twomers's Avatar
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    I give all credit to major_small for my sig - http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showp...1&postcount=49 All I did was change the letters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mario F.
    It won't take them more than a day on the boards for the idea of putting the compiler in their sig suddenly pop out in their heads

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    It annoys me when people have sigs longer than their own post, it would be nicer to have this a profile item rather than taking up room in your sig.
    Quote Originally Posted by laserlight
    I see this as useful, though Dev-C++ is not a compiler.
    Where'd you come from?

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    Heh, you just changed your sig to a one liner, didn't you

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mario F.
    Now, tell me my title isn't sexy.
    Sure beats the heck of my sig
    Okay, Mario, your title isn't sexy.

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    >> Heh, you just changed your sig to a one liner, didn't you

    Say what?

    EDIT:

    <font color="#FF0000">C</font><font color="#FF2200">o</font><font color="#FF4400">o</font><font color="#FF6600">l</font><font color="#FF8800">!</font> <font color="#FFAA00">T</font><font color="#FFCC00">h</font><font color="#FFEE00">i</font><font color="#FFFF00">s</font> <font color="#EEFF00">i</font><font color="#CCFF00">s</font> <font color="#AAFF00">n</font><font color="#88FF00">e</font><font color="#66FF00">a</font><font color="#44FF00">t</font><font color="#22FF00">!</font>

    Beep(2000, 100);, why didn't that work!?
    Last edited by Queatrix; 09-17-2006 at 06:26 PM.

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