Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread alex23
On 27 Dec, 11:00, Chris Angelico wrote: > One of the regulars on the list has posted a run-down of how to post > from Google Groups without annoying everyone, and among other things, > it recommends manually deleting all the blank lines. I'm still posting via Groups and am not seeing my posts com

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 12/26/2012 08:23 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: I have to agree - I saw that howto as well and it occurred to me that if we have to delete blank lines manually we might as well use postal pigeons with tiny little papyrus scrolls - at least th

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote: > I have to agree - I saw that howto as well and it occurred to me > that if we have to delete blank lines manually we might > as well use postal pigeons with tiny little papyrus scrolls - > at least those don't insert blank lines automaticall

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread Dennis
> > My *very first* thought about this code is that it's really badly spaced. > Don't put lines together so much! [https://gist.github.com/4383950] shows > how much nicer things look when they're partitioned more. You may not > agree, but it took about 10 seconds and I prefer it. > > On another st

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 12/26/2012 08:00 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Joshua Landau wrote: FINALLY: When you use Google Groups, your quotations look to us like this: This is something I said with lots of extra lines in the middle for no reason. Google Groups sucks, basically. S

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Joshua Landau wrote: > FINALLY: > When you use Google Groups, your quotations look to us like this: > >> This is something I said >> >> with lots of extra >> >> lines in the middle >> >> for no reason. Google >> >> Groups sucks, basically. > > So please just delet

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread Mitya Sirenef
On 12/26/2012 07:04 PM, bobflipperdoo...@gmail.com wrote: First, sorry for starting a new post - I didn't want anyone to have to read through the whole first one when the questions were completely different :/ Second, I honestly have no idea how to answer your questions. I am a sophomore in h

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread Joshua Landau
On 27 December 2012 00:04, wrote: > First, sorry for starting a new post - I didn't want anyone to have to > read through the whole first one when the questions were completely > different :/ > > Second, I honestly have no idea how to answer your questions. I am a > sophomore in high school and

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:04 AM, wrote: > Second, I honestly have no idea how to answer your questions. I am a > sophomore in high school and I am trying to learn this on my own because my > teacher is not very good at explaining things. Unfortunately, there are a great many bad programming

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread bobflipperdoodle
I cannot tell you how grateful I am that you took the time to do all of this. I have been working on it all day and you are a better teacher in a few minutes than my teacher has been in 4 months. THANK YOU! And thank you again, Mitya. I really appreciate your time and effort too! Someday I'

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread bobflipperdoodle
First, sorry for starting a new post - I didn't want anyone to have to read through the whole first one when the questions were completely different :/ Second, I honestly have no idea how to answer your questions. I am a sophomore in high school and I am trying to learn this on my own because m

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread Joshua Landau
THIS IS A LONG POST, BUT IF YOU WANT TO LEARN YOU SHOULD READ IT. SERIOUSLY. UNLIKE Mitya Sirenef's THIS DOES NOT ASSUME MORE KNOWLEDGE THAN IS IN YOUR POST ALREADY, ALTHOUGH HIS IS DEFINITELY BETTER OVERALL. AS SUCH, THERE ARE NO FUNCTIONS. OK. There are several small errors in here, but there's

Re: Please help if you can!

2012-12-26 Thread Dave Angel
On 12/26/2012 06:04 PM, bobflipperdoo...@gmail.com wrote: > I really hope you can help! > Please use the existing thread when you're continuing to ask the same question. This mailing list has no way to delete messages. So what changes are there between the two versions of the code? Are they