Catch me if you can!

[rolfk]

I never really tried to be part of a race for forum post counts. And no even if I added the Lava posts, the German LabVIEW forum posts and all those old Info-LabVIEW mailing list posts, I would still not really be near Christian.

[James_W]

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@Ettepet wrote:

Isn't the post-count a U16?  If so, use those last 20.500 posts wisely! 😁

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Maybe stack comments with "Edit Reply" and "Mark as New".

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I can't remember, Christian should know - I was his phenomenal posting that caused the data type change last time.
Is it U16 or did they give you a challenge with a U32 Christian?

Congrats on the milestone (and as always thanks for all the posts that mean that I don't have to ask questions because you've already answered them! 😎

James

[rolfk]

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@James_W wrote:

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Is it U16 or did they give you a challenge with a U32 Christian?

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My guess is that it was an int16 and he surpassed its range with his 32768th post. Most software platforms for web development aren't engineering platforms (and might be based on Java at least partly, which doesn't know unsigned integers).

The original Java designer James Gosling was convinced that most programmers don't understand unsigned integer arithmetic at all and that that makes a language like C extra hard, since it supports something that most of its users don't understand. His solution therefore was to simply avoid this "unnecessary" complexity for his own baby.

[James_W]

I must fall into the most programmers category sometimes 😉  depends on coffee intake and amount of time spent reading forums.

[altenbach]

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@rolfk wrote:

I never really tried to be part of a race for forum post counts. 

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Yes, the count is just a curiosity. For me, the forum is simply a habit to widen my LabVIEW skills, similar to people doing a daily crossword puzzle to keep the mind sharp. Unfortunately, my verbal skills are way below my graphical skills and this also explains why I am a graphical programmer!.

Trying to find solutions to random and unexpected problem posted here can be considered "Fingerübungen". The pianist will do days of runs in the basement and nobody cares, but the final product (the public concert!) would not be the same without them.

Solving these LabVIEW problems (and inspecting solutions by others) sharpens the programming skills. While not directly important for my own work, it indirectly greatly improves my real code and is highly beneficial. Over the last decades, many of my approaches were derived in some way from forum work, saving me weeks of tinkering each time.