You've been coding too long when...

[Tristan Rhodes]

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

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[Gennady Oster]

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

[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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[GDI Lord]

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

[GDI Lord]

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...

[AndyMeecham]

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"...

[Rage]

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

[EFDP]

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

[DaveyM69]

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

[Matthew Faithfull]

...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.

[banditknight22]

You're commenting all email paragraphs :laugh:

[Gary Wheeler]

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

Software Zen: delete this;

[Gary Wheeler]

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;

[Gary Wheeler]

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;

[Plamen Dragiyski]

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;

[Mark Puddephat]

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

[JohnReese]

Your cat tries to wake you up in the morning, and you sleepily attempt to formulate an algorithm to get him to stop. True story.

"Buddha! Zeus! God! One of you guys, DO something!" --Professor Farnsworth

[JohnReese]

...you stay up all night worrying that you may have used "=" instead of "==" in an e-mail. ...after sex you have an overwhelming urge to compile and run your wife/girlfriend.

"Buddha! Zeus! God! One of you guys, DO something!" --Professor Farnsworth

[Marc Clifton]

I would find myself hitting Alt-F S out of habit on long emails to "save" the "document" (one of those habits one learns early when using this ultrareliable technology we have). On some email programs, that sends the email, so I used to send a lot of unfinished emails. Marc

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[the Kris]

class Me { public: bool CodingTooLong() { return true ? ( ! false ) : ( ! true ); } };