You've been coding too long when...

[Anubisasc]

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

[proftc]

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.

[Lieutenant Frost]

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.”

[El Corazon]

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)

[pboucher]

... 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

[Nemanja Trifunovic]

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[^]

Programming Blog utf8-cpp

[ClockMeister]

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

[Lost User]

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

[SD SteveG]

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

[Mark Puddephat]

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

[Tomas Brennan]

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

[Curtis J]

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

[MrPlankton]

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

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[srulyt]

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

[Freddy0001]

You write a line of code, and comment it using a different coding language.

[azonenberg]

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...

[azonenberg]

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.

[patbob]

...you understand the joke about the F10 key.. and think it's funny :)

patbob

[Luc Pattyn]

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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[pboucher]

I often solve problems and create algorithms in the morning during my shower. Pierre Boucher