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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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    MrPlankton
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    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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    • 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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      srulyt
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      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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      • 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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        Freddy0001
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        You write a line of code, and comment it using a different coding language.

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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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          azonenberg
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          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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          • S SD SteveG

            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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            azonenberg
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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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            • F Freddy0001

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

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              Luc Pattyn
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              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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              • L Lost User

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

                patbob

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

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                  • R Rage

                    Chris Maunder wrote:

                    Ctrl-Shift-B

                    :omg: What shortcut is this ? I hope you do not use this to build your project...

                    ~RaGE();

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                    Rage 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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                    • F Freddy0001

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

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                      mght
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                      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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                      • 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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                        VE2
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                        ..You take a break, your cat walks across your keyboard, and you spend a shameful amount of time wondering why your code doesn't compile anymore...

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                        • Z z974647

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

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                          LenaBr
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                          That is not romantic? What about linking or "Being with you is like when code runs bug free the first time" When your dreams start to be object oriented

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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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                            Ashley van Gerven
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                            ... 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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                            • 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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                              Faidzal Thalith
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                              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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                              • 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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                                seasaw
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                                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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                                • 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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                                  Telimaktar
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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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                                  • T Telimaktar

                                    ...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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                                    theFALCO
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                                    you at night light a torch and feel amazed by the DYNAMIC SHADOWS you see a fog and think "it's a sprite or a particle effect?" you see a real world object falling, then bouncing and say "it shouldn't act like that" xD

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                                    • T Telimaktar

                                      ...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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                                      azonenberg
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                                      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

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                                      • L LenaBr

                                        That is not romantic? What about linking or "Being with you is like when code runs bug free the first time" When your dreams start to be object oriented

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                                        nalorin
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                                        LenaBr wrote:

                                        Being with you is like when code runs bug free the first time

                                        *Dies of laughter*

                                        "Silently laughing at silly people is much more satisfying in the long run than rolling around with them in a dusty street, trying to knock out all their teeth. If nothing else, it's better on the clothes." - Belgarath (David Eddings)

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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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                                          nalorin
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                                          ... that infinite loop comes to haunt your dreams. (I've had this happen SO many times... programming really makes sleeping suck! :P)

                                          "Silently laughing at silly people is much more satisfying in the long run than rolling around with them in a dusty street, trying to knock out all their teeth. If nothing else, it's better on the clothes." - Belgarath (David Eddings)

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