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| jefflowrey |
 Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 1:48 am Post subject: This is not a milestone.... |
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I've been thinking about this for a couple of days... what to post at this "milestone" of 15000 posts...
And I realized that... this is not a milestone. 15000 is a meaningless number, both in general, and in specific.
10000 was a meaningful number, in some ways. And I commememorated it by making a donation, which I encourage you all to do.
But the nearest meaningful number after 10000 is 16384, which is obvious if you think about it for a bit.
But I'm not even sure that's really a milestone. 32768 might be more meaningful - but only if the version of PHPBB2 in effect at that point is still using an 8-bit integer for post count. Which I really hope it's not.
I'm sticking with my story. Anything over 10,000 is way too much, and pretty meaningless.
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| Michael Dag |
| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:44 am Post subject: |
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Well I just hope you never get enough of this and don't drop out...
If all these numbers are to much for you I could send Brandon some code to set your postcount back to let's say 542 
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| Michael Dag wrote: |
| Well I just hope you never get enough of this and don't drop out... |
I'm not saying it can't happen... I'm not even saying it *won't* happen.
Just not any time soon, as far as I'm concerned.
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| bduncan |
| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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Your 15,000 number is significant when you consider that this represents nearly 10% of all the posts made on MQSeries.net from 2001-2007 
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:49 am Post subject: |
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Grand Poobah
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| bduncan wrote: |
| Your 15,000 number is significant when you consider that this represents nearly 10% of all the posts made on MQSeries.net from 2001-2007 |
Stats say it's only 8.53% of total posts... of course, I didn't join until 2002 (hard to believe it's been that long...) So maybe it's a larger percentage of the posts since I joined...
Still, I don't really think of it as an accomplishment.
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| TonyD |
| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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| The extraordinary thing about the 15,000 is that most of them, from my observation, have been answers to questions ... saved my bacon more than once! |
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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They may not have been answers to the question asked, however...
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| jefflowrey wrote: |
| They may not have been answers to the question asked, however... |
But always sound advice! 
(With the occassional humourous observation thrown in!!)
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| elvis_gn |
| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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Hi jefflowrey,
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Jeff, Incase ur feeling guilty, please feel free to take my userId password and post a few in my name.....I luckily, will have no guilt whatsoever  Just kidding !!
I should say, that even when u may not be giving the correct answer, u are unknowingly broadening the scope of learning in that topic....and thats good enough for me...
Thanks on behalf of all of us here...and keep the posts coming
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