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I am a Software Consultant.

I am interrested in .NET programming (C#, VB), web programming (ASP.NET, Javascript) and GUI design.

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Jan 25	comment	Meaning of “I am cold naked” @박용현: I feel that many of your questions would be better off in the beta version of this new site: English Language Learners. This is still in private beta, but you can choose to follow it, so you will get notified when it is opened for public beta. When this happens, you can ask questions there in the same way you have done here, but in a site that is more suited for the questions you ask as a learner of english from a non-english perspective.
Jan 25	comment	What does “X is not a four-letter word” mean? @SamB: Using `goto` in computer programming is considered bad practice (and in modern programming languages well hidden or not possible). So this would by many programmers actually fall into the category of four letter word also in the meaning of being a swear word...
Jan 23	comment	Intonation and the changing of meaning @BillFranke: The question here is not whether this is a good example or not. It's about what the term is called for a phrase where the voice can convey meaning by means other than vocabulary and syntax. We understand what he's asking, so no need to "not agree".
Oct 29	comment	Nested parentheticals — restructuring for clarity @EdwinAshworth: You can upvote by clicking the up-arrow above the vote score to the left of the answer.
Oct 1	comment	Does the washing up fairy exist outside of Australia? @Paola: Well, yes. That is a well known phenomena, but is related only to laundry, not to washing up. In many cases, it is even not required to be put in the laundry basket, but more like left on the "magic floor" where clothes left at the floor is magically cleaned and put in place.
Oct 1	comment	What is the origin of “shh”? @neil: It is rather curious that this is used to urge someone to be silent, as the 's' and 'sh' sound is heard over most other spoken sounds. So it makes more sound to tell someone to be quiet than the original offence. In choirs, the singers are often told to dampen 's' sounds, and even not sing them at all (just leave it to one or two people).
Sep 6	comment	On the usage of “etcetera” @XavierVidalHernández: The three dots are often used when quoting a text, and you leave out a part of the original text that are not relevant in your context.
Aug 3	comment	When did the term “Jay” come to mean an “unintelligent person”? Your reference say: "Applied to humans in sense of "impertinent chatterer, flashy dresser" from 1620s." I would say this is not entirely the same as what is asked in the question. I would say it needs other answers for when this was taken further to mean "unintelligent person".
Jun 14	comment	Difference in usage of “regular”, “usual”, “ordinary”, “normal”, “common” @mfe: I would not use tap water. In many places tap water is not clean enough to drink, so sill water would be better (as in bottled water than comes from a clean source).
Jun 7	comment	What is the Tacoma Narrows bridge doing in this picture? @Mechanicalsnail: My thoughts excactly when I was reading the definition in this answer.
May 15	comment	Is it acceptable to nest parentheses? @T.Webster: Yes, that is exactly why you should use it with care as I said in my answer. A good advice would be to look quickly over what you have written, and see if it is easy to spot the matched parenthese pairs (without the aid of a programming IDE...).
Mar 27	comment	“Your” vs. “you're”: Why the confusion? @DanielHanly: I often have to read it twice when "you're" is misspelled as "your" because I the meaning of the two is in my head very different.
Mar 21	comment	Is “Don't you know? ” the same as “Do not you know?”? Strictly speaking, the extraction of "Aren't I?" should be "Are not I" to follow the same "rules" as the OP use in the question, but the logic still stands.
Mar 13	comment	Meaning of “know life for what it is” @jwpat7: The question you linked to as a possible duplicate, is now closed as "Not a real question", of which I agree. I'm not sure I agree that this question here sould be closed though, as beyond clarifying the meaning of the phrace, it would be interresting to also get some historic background on how this kind of wording originated. Maybe it would be better to expand the question to include this.
Jan 16	comment	When and why should I use 'the' Not necessarily (even though in this case it is). What I say is that Balford is one specific library (among other libraries), and that it is located in Oxford (just to be sure to get it right in case there are other libraries in the world that is also called "Balford").
Nov 18	comment	Is two-thirds plural? When the meaning of 2/3 is singular as in 1), should it then be said "two third" and not "two thirds" ? My point is that "s" as ending here indicates plural.
Nov 4	comment	How to pronounce LINQ? @SteinG.Strindhaug: The reason they insist on using the # (hash) symbol is that the ♯ (sharp) symbol is not represented on a standard computer keyboard. As for why they chose the name: The name "C sharp" was inspired by musical notation where a sharp indicates that the written note should be made a semitone higher in pitch. This is similar to the language name of C++, where "++" indicates that a variable should be incremented by 1.
Nov 4	comment	How is SQL pronounced? I say "pottit".
Nov 4	comment	How to pronounce @somebody for Twitter? "Tweet Tom" would be the right form, as Twitter has introduced as the way to say it.
Nov 4	comment	How to pronounce @somebody for Twitter? Just a note on the Twitter version: Twitter has introdueced a verb to use for this; "tweet". So your second line there would be "Tweet Tom for more information."