I like the two answers, but I think this is a major cultural shift, and it can have potentially astronomical impacts on this site, with possibilities ranging from hypothetical degradation of overall content quality to... possibly nothing less than site graduation through somehow managing to deal with a phenominal growth rate spike as we become The Best Thing Since Stack Overflow. — Mat's Mug55 mins ago
I like how 200 puts it: Asking for help with a minor enhancement, within reason, is actually not a problem. In fact, just posting a question is implicitly seeking advice to improve the code. We regularly rewrite programs, sometimes from scratch, in the course of answering.
it would have been nicer if I could have just made it an extension, but i have never created an extension before so I probably did something wrong or didn't "include" all the files or something
//Code sanitized to protect the foolish.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Web.UI;
namespace Mobile.Web.Control
{
/// <summary>
/// Class used to work around Richard being a fucking idiot
/// </summary>
/// <...
WARNING: If you're stuck on that page, prepare to waste the next hour or two.
I am particularly guilty of this, embedding non-constructive comments, code poetry and little jokes into most of my projects (although I usually have enough sense to remove anything directly offensive before releasing the code). Here's one I'm particulary fond of, placed far, far down a poorly-de...
//Code sanitized to protect the foolish.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Web.UI;
namespace Mobile.Web.Control
{
/// <summary>
/// Class used to work around Richard being a fucking idiot
/// </summary>
/// <...
stop(); // Hammertime!
//When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing
//Now, God only knows
