You've been coding too long when...
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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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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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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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Chris Maunder wrote:
Ctrl-Shift-B
:omg: What shortcut is this ? I hope you do not use this to build your project...
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Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverbRage wrote:
Chris Maunder wrote: Ctrl-Shift-B What shortcut is this ? I hope you do not use this to build your project...
Call me stupid, but what's wrong with that? Is there something I'm missing, because I use that shortcut all the time...
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You write a line of code, and comment it using a different coding language.
You use #include "person@company.com" in an email instead of CCing them Just last week, I woke up in a stupor trying to figure out how to set a breakpoint on my noisy alarm clock. I have a stack of papers on my desk that needed to be sorted by date, and I spent more time trying to figure out the most efficient sort algorithm than I actually spent sorting them.
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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 add comments instead of parenthesis /*don't say you've never done it!*/ ... you try to attach a file to an email by typing "ResourceManager..." ... you think it would be a good idea to create a branched copy of your timesheets
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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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've write a report for my neighbourhood security in pseudocode format before... dunno how many of them understand it ;P
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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
Your favorite language looks like this... 01 Input-Record. 05 Input-Key PIC X(05) COMP-X. 05 Input-Data PIC X(75). 01 Output-Record. 05 Output-Key PIC 9(13). 05 Output-Data PIC X(75). ... Move Input-Key to Output-Key. Move Input-Data to Output-Data. Write Output-Record.
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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 look at a real world object and imagine how many classes and methods you require to represent it. ...you play a computer game and think of the code running the engine rather than just playing.
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...you look at a real world object and imagine how many classes and methods you require to represent it. ...you play a computer game and think of the code running the engine rather than just playing.
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...you look at a real world object and imagine how many classes and methods you require to represent it. ...you play a computer game and think of the code running the engine rather than just playing.
Telimaktar wrote:
...you look at a real world object and imagine how many classes and methods you require to represent it.
LOL... I thought I was the only one here who did that. "Imagine the time it would take to write that shader! Bump mapping, sub-surface scattering, wow..." (looking at an ice cube)
Telimaktar wrote:
...you play a computer game and think of the code running the engine rather than just playing.
Post that one on my other favorite programming site - gamedev.net. I guarantee you'll get a TON of people who think just like that.
modified on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:46 AM