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  • C Chris Maunder

    ...You are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi-colons ...You hit Ctrl-Shift-B after completing the email instead of Ctrl+Return ...You keep hitting tab and wonder why your words aren't autocompleting ...You find yourself trying to check if you're under Debug or Release before sending the email ...You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email. And you know I wish I was joking here. Jetlag and long nights are a killer. Anyone got any more?

    cheers, Chris Maunder

    CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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    Rage
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    Chris Maunder wrote:

    Ctrl-Shift-B

    :omg: What shortcut is this ? I hope you do not use this to build your project...

    ~RaGE();

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      Chris Maunder wrote:

      Ctrl-Shift-B

      :omg: What shortcut is this ? I hope you do not use this to build your project...

      ~RaGE();

      I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
      Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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      Chris Maunder
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      OK, I've actually got a custom toolbar button with a Lucky 8-ball that does a Rebuild Solution. It seems appropriate some days

      cheers, Chris Maunder

      CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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      • C Chris Maunder

        ...You are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi-colons ...You hit Ctrl-Shift-B after completing the email instead of Ctrl+Return ...You keep hitting tab and wonder why your words aren't autocompleting ...You find yourself trying to check if you're under Debug or Release before sending the email ...You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email. And you know I wish I was joking here. Jetlag and long nights are a killer. Anyone got any more?

        cheers, Chris Maunder

        CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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        toxcct
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        Chris Maunder wrote:

        You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email.

        quite... ...you realize that the person reading the email is opening it with Lotus Notes and you wonder how your html mail body will be rendered.

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        • T toxcct

          Chris Maunder wrote:

          You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email.

          quite... ...you realize that the person reading the email is opening it with Lotus Notes and you wonder how your html mail body will be rendered.

          [VisualCalc][Binary Guide][CommDialogs] | [Forums Guidelines]

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          Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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          toxcct wrote:

          the email is opening it with Lotus Notes and you wonder how your html mail body will be rendered.

          There wouldn't be any surprise if the HTML structure of Lotues Notes parser is like the following: </html> </body> </h3>I am Lotus Notes HTML Parser</h3> <body> <html>

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            ...You CamelCase proper names ...Boolean operators instead of punctuation ...Lots and lots of nested parentheses...

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            Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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            Shog9 wrote:

            Lots and lots of nested parentheses

            This is true very much for any programmer even for casual emails.

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            • S Stuart Dootson

              Chris Maunder wrote:

              You are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi-colons

              No VB any more then, Chris?

              Chris Maunder wrote:

              Anyone got any more?

              Ever thought "Now how do I compile this Word document?"

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              Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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              Stuart Dootson wrote:

              VB

              VB is a (dead) dinosaur.

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              • C Chris Maunder

                ...You are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi-colons ...You hit Ctrl-Shift-B after completing the email instead of Ctrl+Return ...You keep hitting tab and wonder why your words aren't autocompleting ...You find yourself trying to check if you're under Debug or Release before sending the email ...You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email. And you know I wish I was joking here. Jetlag and long nights are a killer. Anyone got any more?

                cheers, Chris Maunder

                CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                Tristan Rhodes
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                When someone replies Yes/No to a multiple choice question, and your first thought is "Type Cast Exception."

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                • C Chris Maunder

                  ...You are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi-colons ...You hit Ctrl-Shift-B after completing the email instead of Ctrl+Return ...You keep hitting tab and wonder why your words aren't autocompleting ...You find yourself trying to check if you're under Debug or Release before sending the email ...You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email. And you know I wish I was joking here. Jetlag and long nights are a killer. Anyone got any more?

                  cheers, Chris Maunder

                  CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                  Gennady Oster
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                  - You try to save draft message to CVS (or VSS - for MS fans) - You try to "add reference" instead of add recipient

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                  • C Chris Maunder

                    ...You are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi-colons ...You hit Ctrl-Shift-B after completing the email instead of Ctrl+Return ...You keep hitting tab and wonder why your words aren't autocompleting ...You find yourself trying to check if you're under Debug or Release before sending the email ...You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email. And you know I wish I was joking here. Jetlag and long nights are a killer. Anyone got any more?

                    cheers, Chris Maunder

                    CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                    Pete OHanlon
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                    ... You create an abstract email, and then a concrete version and wonder why nobody understands either ... You have one recepient and 20 interface to recipients ... You get a spellcheck error and look for a debug window to find out why ... You write posts titled You've been coding too long when... ... You contribute answers to posts titled You've been coding too long when...

                    Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                    • C Chris Maunder

                      ...You are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi-colons ...You hit Ctrl-Shift-B after completing the email instead of Ctrl+Return ...You keep hitting tab and wonder why your words aren't autocompleting ...You find yourself trying to check if you're under Debug or Release before sending the email ...You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email. And you know I wish I was joking here. Jetlag and long nights are a killer. Anyone got any more?

                      cheers, Chris Maunder

                      CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                      GDI Lord
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                      You read "...You hit Ctrl-Shift-B after completing the email instead of Ctrl+Return" as "...compiling the email..."

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                      • T toxcct

                        Chris Maunder wrote:

                        You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email.

                        quite... ...you realize that the person reading the email is opening it with Lotus Notes and you wonder how your html mail body will be rendered.

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                        GDI Lord
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                        Well I get pretty irritated when people use word as their email editor and I get hordes of whitespace blank lines in my plain text email...

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                        • A Abu Mami

                          ...ever write an email in pseudo-code? *sheesh*

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                          AndyMeecham
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                          I once had a guy who worked for me write me a status report that I had to run through the precompiler to understand - he used C macros in his text "for speed"...

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                          • C Chris Maunder

                            OK, I've actually got a custom toolbar button with a Lucky 8-ball that does a Rebuild Solution. It seems appropriate some days

                            cheers, Chris Maunder

                            CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                            Rage
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                            I go for F7.

                            ~RaGE();

                            I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
                            Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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                            • L Lost User

                              Vasudevan Deepak K wrote:

                              F10 key to step-through each suggestion.

                              :laugh: :laugh: This would suggest that someone is coding since Adam's time.

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                              You spend 4 hours the next morning unwriting what it took you 2 hours to mess up the night before

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                              • C Chris Maunder

                                ...You are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi-colons ...You hit Ctrl-Shift-B after completing the email instead of Ctrl+Return ...You keep hitting tab and wonder why your words aren't autocompleting ...You find yourself trying to check if you're under Debug or Release before sending the email ...You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email. And you know I wish I was joking here. Jetlag and long nights are a killer. Anyone got any more?

                                cheers, Chris Maunder

                                CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                                DaveyM69
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                                Chris Maunder wrote:

                                ...You are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi-colons ...You keep hitting tab and wonder why your words aren't autocompleting

                                Guilty! Especially the semi-colons. I had to do some maintenance work on an old VB project the other day and I couldn't stop myself doing it. By the time I'd 're-logiced' myself so I could even use VB again and done the fixes, I reckon I could have recoded it all in C# anyway.

                                Dave

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                                • C Chris Maunder

                                  ...You are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi-colons ...You hit Ctrl-Shift-B after completing the email instead of Ctrl+Return ...You keep hitting tab and wonder why your words aren't autocompleting ...You find yourself trying to check if you're under Debug or Release before sending the email ...You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email. And you know I wish I was joking here. Jetlag and long nights are a killer. Anyone got any more?

                                  cheers, Chris Maunder

                                  CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                                  Matthew Faithfull
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                                  ...you feel frustrated because you can't set a breakpoint at the moment when your pizza is cooked to perfection. ...you repeatedly try and fail to Copy & Paste real world objects. ...right clicking on the trash doesn't enable you to make it disappear, this just seems wrong somehow. ...you feel horrified when you realize that there's no automated way to search for your car keys. In fact there's no way to be 100% sure whether you've lost them permanently or just misfiled them, even *keys* doesn't work, aaaaaargh :omg:

                                  Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.

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                                  • C Chris Maunder

                                    ...You are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi-colons ...You hit Ctrl-Shift-B after completing the email instead of Ctrl+Return ...You keep hitting tab and wonder why your words aren't autocompleting ...You find yourself trying to check if you're under Debug or Release before sending the email ...You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email. And you know I wish I was joking here. Jetlag and long nights are a killer. Anyone got any more?

                                    cheers, Chris Maunder

                                    CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                                    banditknight22
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                                    You're commenting all email paragraphs :laugh:

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                                    • S Shog9 0

                                      ...You CamelCase proper names ...Boolean operators instead of punctuation ...Lots and lots of nested parentheses...

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                                      Gary Wheeler
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                                      Using brackets inside a parenthesized phrase (like [this] one) just looks wrong, even though it's stylistically correct.

                                      Software Zen: delete this;

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                                      • T toxcct

                                        Chris Maunder wrote:

                                        You realise the person reading the email is using a Mac and you get worried about whether they will be able to read your email.

                                        quite... ...you realize that the person reading the email is opening it with Lotus Notes and you wonder how your html mail body will be rendered.

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                                        Gary Wheeler
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                                        Don't get me started. The POS who wrote Notes uses the Internet Explorer WebBrowser ActiveX control to render HTML, but they intercept and modify the HTML before they pass it to the control. Morons.

                                        Software Zen: delete this;

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                                        • P Pete OHanlon

                                          ... You create an abstract email, and then a concrete version and wonder why nobody understands either ... You have one recepient and 20 interface to recipients ... You get a spellcheck error and look for a debug window to find out why ... You write posts titled You've been coding too long when... ... You contribute answers to posts titled You've been coding too long when...

                                          Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                                          Gary Wheeler
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                                          Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                                          ... You write posts titled You've been coding too long when...

                                          And you worry about a stack overflow from the infinite recursion that results.

                                          Software Zen: delete this;

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