Mark Hurd

Cherry Gardens, Australia

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~markhurd/

I have a background in VB and C and an Honours degree in Mathematical Sciences from Adelaide University, majoring in Computer Science.

I have over 15 years VB experience and have dealt with back-end details, including without using databases.

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Rename "Looks Good" or add a "Looks OK, just Incorrect" in Low Quality Question Review

feature-request status-completed review low-quality-posts asked Aug 10, 2012 at 19:36

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19 votes

Hot Questions clips quotes wrongly in questions like '"this" and "that"'

bug status-completed hot-questions stackexchange-button asked Jun 12, 2012 at 1:40

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13 votes

Is Aggregate fatally flawed because each into clause is executed separately?

vb.net linq linq-to-sql aggregate-functions aggregate asked Sep 4, 2012 at 13:39

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13 votes

My recently deleted comments should remain in the Comments view

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12 votes

What more can I do when a wrong answer keeps getting up votes?

discussion feature-request wrong-answers asked May 19, 2010 at 4:37

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12 votes

Notify/contact SEDE user of fix to query

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11 votes

When is `x IS NOT NULL` not the same as `NOT(x IS NULL)`

sql null asked May 18, 2010 at 16:29

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9 votes

Why don't all of these variables get treated the same way?

vb.net closures asked Nov 7, 2012 at 9:29

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9 votes

Does specifying the OutAttribute on ByRef internal methods currently do anything?

vb.net out byref asked Jul 19, 2011 at 8:17

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9 votes

What voting system is used (in the majority of states) for the US presidential (electoral) vote?

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Should I use Call keyword in VB/VBA?

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ORA-00937: not a single-group group function

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