You've been coding too long when...
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...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
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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...You CamelCase proper names ...Boolean operators instead of punctuation ...Lots and lots of nested parentheses...
Shog9 wrote:
Lots and lots of nested parentheses
This is true very much for any programmer even for casual emails.
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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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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>Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson -
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?"
Stuart Dootson wrote:
VB
VB is a (dead) dinosaur.
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson -
...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
When someone replies Yes/No to a multiple choice question, and your first thought is "Type Cast Exception."
------------------------------- Carrier Bags - 21st Century Tumbleweed.
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...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
- 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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...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
... 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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...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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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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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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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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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 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
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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...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
...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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...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
You're commenting all email paragraphs :laugh:
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...You CamelCase proper names ...Boolean operators instead of punctuation ...Lots and lots of nested parentheses...
Using brackets inside a parenthesized phrase (like [this] one) just looks wrong, even though it's stylistically correct.
Software Zen:
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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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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; -
... 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.
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; -
...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
for(int i=0; i<3; i++) { '.' } put repeated words in cycle; ...surround 'a' character in sigle-quote "and" a string in double-quotes; ...write double equal sign to show two things are equal; Icecream==Cold? ...end your e-mail with "return 0;"; ...use "true" and "false", instead "yes" and "no"; ...reply "missing statements" when a girl writes you {} in chat;
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...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
You're typing an email and you press Escape then: - you press W to go to the next word... - you press $ to go to the end of the line... - you press x multiple times to delete that little mistake you just made... And last but not least... Your spell check keyboard shortcut is :w:ksh -n % It's not just .NET that's addictive, you know. :-D