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
...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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...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 -
...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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...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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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
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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...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:
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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...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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...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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...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 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
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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...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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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
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.
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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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
While at the keyboard you develop tunnel vision, you see a bright light at the end of the tunnel, then hear long dead relatives beckon you to step into the light.
MrPlankton
modified on Thursday, March 6, 2008 11:13 AM
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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
I think i do all of the above :) You have been coding (for the web) to long when ... when you try to url-escape your local file names you take notes in pseudocode when putting a space between the two words in a compound noun makes you feel like somthing is wrong you don't understand whey when you put a dot after a word in your email you don't get intellisense you can't figure out why other (non tech) people can't understand your emails //shopping list select 2 potatos from potatos where potatos look nice if NiceBananas = true; get a few bananas // i assume you know we have oranges at home if we have < 4 oranges buy some of those 2 i do this all the time and then have to rewrite the email before i send it :-D
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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 write a line of code, and comment it using a different coding language.
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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 are writing an email and you find yourself ending sentences with semi- colons
Been there, done that...
Lots and lots of nested parentheses
LOL of course - it's only logical to use them in English.
You begin lines with comment characters
One time when I was writing a college essay and had to stop for dinner, I marked my stopping point: //Concluding sentence here...
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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.
SD SteveG wrote:
Instead of relaxing when you're away from the computer, you optimize and re-check recent code blocks in your head.
No joke - I've written some of my best algorithms in a canoe ten miles from the nearest computer. I don't even consciously think about it - the idea just suddenly hits me when I'm nowhere near my work.
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You write a line of code, and comment it using a different coding language.
Freddy0001 wrote:
You write a line of code, and comment it using a different coding language
Nothing wrong here, I occasionally add C code as a comment to explain what VB is supposed to do... :)
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