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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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    Mike Devenney
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    Shog9 wrote:

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

    I'm sooooo happy!!! I thought I was alone! :-D

    Mike Devenney

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    • M 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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      Pete OHanlon
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      So that's not just me then. I used to send a lot of apologies for unfinished emails.

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

      My blog | My articles

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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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        Justin Perez
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        I am an F6 kinda guy myself.

        I'm going to become rich when I create a device that allows me to punch people in the face over the internet. "If an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?" - John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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        • M Mike Devenney

          Shog9 wrote:

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

          I'm sooooo happy!!! I thought I was alone! :-D

          Mike Devenney

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          Pete OHanlon
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          Mike Devenney wrote:

          I'm sooooo happy!!! I thought I was alone!

          You're never alone with a schizophrenic.

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

          My blog | My articles

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          • T Tristan Rhodes

            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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            Mike Devenney
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            This has been the best thread I've read up here in a while. I got TEARS man... :(( TEARS from laughing! Great way to start a Thursday.

            Mike Devenney

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            • M 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

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              Lost User
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              Mark Puddephat wrote:

              You're typing an email and you press Escape then:

              Sometimes I press escape and type "wq!"...:cool:

              Life was much simpler in 2002

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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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                Mladen Jankovic
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                ...you try find and hit Ctrl+Z when you make mistake while filling paper form. ...you start counting from 0 in real life. ...you insist that 65536 is a round number in front of non-computer people.

                Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)

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                • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

                  ...In F7 SpellCheck, one is looking out the use of F10 key to step-through each suggestion.

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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

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                  z974647
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                  During romance, you refer to 'buffers', 'input', 'output', and 'runtime' :-O

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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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                    Anubisasc
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                    you wake up in the middle of the night babbling about booleans and chars and your spouse wakes up startled and looks at you like you are speaking gibberish

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                    • M Mladen Jankovic

                      ...you try find and hit Ctrl+Z when you make mistake while filling paper form. ...you start counting from 0 in real life. ...you insist that 65536 is a round number in front of non-computer people.

                      Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)

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                      proftc
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                      Mladen Jankovic wrote:

                      ...you start counting from 0 in real life.

                      That's me. Or how about when you're counting on your hand, look down, and realize you're working in boolean. Extra points for being in a group where nobody thinks it odd.

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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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                        Lieutenant Frost
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                        You have become my new hero. One of several, anyway. :-D

                        “Acer, Gateway, and eMachines are the same company now. Great! Now we just need a really big toilet, and we can get rid of all three at once.”

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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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                          El Corazon
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                          Chris Maunder wrote:

                          Anyone got any more?

                          if(I^did) dare_I (post&it)? I have actually had to catch myself when I use "if" in a document because the brackets go up automatically by my fingers.

                          _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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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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                            pboucher
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                            ... you copy from one PC and you try to paste it to another PC without understanding why it does not work :confused: and then :-O Pierre Boucher

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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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                              Nemanja Trifunovic
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                              Chris Maunder wrote:

                              You hit Ctrl-Shift-B after completing the email instead of Ctrl+Return

                              Real programmers hit F7, or even better type make

                              Chris Maunder wrote:

                              You keep hitting tab and wonder why your words aren't autocompleting

                              Again, real programmers hit Ctrl-P[^]

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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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                                ClockMeister
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                                You are in an instant-message conversation and making a spelling correction is done with C/old spelling/new spelling/. -CB ;-)

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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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                                  Lost User
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                                  Chris Maunder wrote:

                                  I wish I was joking here

                                  I am not sure which is funnier. Someone wrote this down or that I have actually done some of this stuff.... :laugh:

                                  Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy Individuality is fine, as long as we do it together - F. Burns

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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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                                    SD SteveG
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                                    Instead of relaxing when you're away from the computer, you optimize and re-check recent code blocks in your head.

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                                      Mark Puddephat wrote:

                                      You're typing an email and you press Escape then:

                                      Sometimes I press escape and type "wq!"...:cool:

                                      Life was much simpler in 2002

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                                      Mark Puddephat
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                                      I do too. But only if I want to save it as a draft.

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                                        Mladen Jankovic wrote:

                                        ...you start counting from 0 in real life.

                                        That's me. Or how about when you're counting on your hand, look down, and realize you're working in boolean. Extra points for being in a group where nobody thinks it odd.

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                                        Tomas Brennan
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                                        Count me in on that, I sometimes write single line comments in emails or in word, count from 0, or even put in the odd semicolon on sentences - regardless of which app I'm using; see what I mean; !!!! Shoo a fly away from the monitor - not with cursor but with mouse without realizing I've yanked the mouse cable out of the dev box wonderin' why the mouse aint responding...or sometimes, the cable is tied so tightly that I try swat the fly only for the mouse to fly out of my hand and I go 'ooops' esp if there's a mug o coffee nearby...or a glass o wine...sheesh...:doh: :-)

                                        #define STOOPID #if STOOPID Console.WriteLine("I'm stoopid!"); #endif

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                                        • C ClockMeister

                                          You are in an instant-message conversation and making a spelling correction is done with C/old spelling/new spelling/. -CB ;-)

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                                          Curtis J
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                                          Or you're on LiveJournal (in a non-programming group) and make a second comment - correcting the spelling in the first one - that says s/misspelled/correct/... (I admit to doing that one.) --Curtis

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