FREE FROM THE TYRANY OF THE CAPS LOCK!!!!!!!!
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
01001001001000000111010001101000011011110111010101100111011010000111010000100000
I am MUCH too lazy to even try to figure out if that makes sense. (Other than, ya, that's binary.) OK, I did do a quick check, and I've heard of 8, 12, 16, 32, 60, and 64 bit systems, but 71 bit????? :-D Yes, every number I wrote is in the decimal system. I know, ancient history, but I'm old. (Interesting?: I'm always hitting the caps lock key, usually when I try to hit the shift key. Just did it again, which on this thread is a bit funny. Ha, on or off-humor?)
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Sentenryu wrote:
I really can't see how you think this[^] looks like a cigarrete '-'
Well on my keyboard the light parts are dark and the dark are light so it looks different than "this" to me. But, you pretty much need a cigarrete fettish to think it looks like one. I can squint my eyes and sort of see it too.
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I honestly don't understand. Is this a coolness thing? "I can type w/o caps lock" == "Look ma, no hands!" I don't need it for most things, but a lot of SQL conventions rely on all caps for either keywords (MS SQL) or object names (PL-SQL). For any other language I could understand it, but if you're following conventions then typing a word w/o caps lock doesn't make sense: SELECT TOP 10 * FROM mytable A INNER JOIN myothertable B ON B.ID = A.ID WHERE A.myfilter = 1 ORDER BY B.sortcolumn I don't use caps lock for most things, but I use it all the time when I'm coding in SQL.
Code responsibly: OWASP.org Mark's blog: www.developMENTALmadness.com Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
Ease up man, I was just kidding :) Personally I don't like all caps anywhere, not even SQL. IT JUST LOOKS LIKE SHOUTING TO ME!!! The company where I work uses all lower case SQL.
select top 10 * from MyTable a
inner join MyOtherTable b on b.ID = a.ID
where a.MyFilter = 1
order by b.SortColumnNotice how gentle and readable it is? :) Well, I guess it's just a personal preference. Having said that I just never need caps lock... When I do need all caps (like the sentence 'IT JUST LOOKS LIKE SHOUTING TO ME' above) I use my pinky for the shift key. I can do this because I'm kind of a semi-two-finger-typer who sporadically uses different fingers too (but almost never pinkies). When I really need a lot of caps I just use caps lock of course :)
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
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Mark J. Miller wrote:
I don't use caps lock for most things, but I use it all the time when I'm coding in SQL.
Since it isn't required in SQL, unless I'm thinking about making the code public, I just use lower case. To me, it's just as readable and Thank GOD for ctrl-shift-u when I do decide to make it public. My gripe is that intellisense is really intellistupid in SQL. In C#, it's usually right on for me, but I'm constantly going "NO, you @#$%ing machine! Do what I said, not what you think I asked for!" in SQL. To top it off, I constantly am not hitting the esc button to kill it, typing while looking elsewhere and then find SQL corrected me into gibberish. There are times when it is useful, so usually at that time, it stops working.
Yeah, SQL intellisense sucks - I turn it off completely, but I'd never heard of ctrl+shift+u. I tried it but it seems a little heavy handed for my taste. I don't capitalize everything, just keywords. For me having everything in caps is the same as everything in lowercase.
Code responsibly: OWASP.org Mark's blog: www.developMENTALmadness.com Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
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Ease up man, I was just kidding :) Personally I don't like all caps anywhere, not even SQL. IT JUST LOOKS LIKE SHOUTING TO ME!!! The company where I work uses all lower case SQL.
select top 10 * from MyTable a
inner join MyOtherTable b on b.ID = a.ID
where a.MyFilter = 1
order by b.SortColumnNotice how gentle and readable it is? :) Well, I guess it's just a personal preference. Having said that I just never need caps lock... When I do need all caps (like the sentence 'IT JUST LOOKS LIKE SHOUTING TO ME' above) I use my pinky for the shift key. I can do this because I'm kind of a semi-two-finger-typer who sporadically uses different fingers too (but almost never pinkies). When I really need a lot of caps I just use caps lock of course :)
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}Sorry, didn't mean to come across like that. I recently got harassed by a couple coworkers about using caps lock (I tried typing on one of their keyboards and the caps lock key was disabled). So maybe I was a little strong because of it. I've been a C# developer for over 10 years but I've done some pretty heavy SQL development in that time, more so than other devs I've worked with. So I guess it's mostly just how I learned it. Like you said "personal preference".
Code responsibly: OWASP.org Mark's blog: www.developMENTALmadness.com Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
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Yeah, SQL intellisense sucks - I turn it off completely, but I'd never heard of ctrl+shift+u. I tried it but it seems a little heavy handed for my taste. I don't capitalize everything, just keywords. For me having everything in caps is the same as everything in lowercase.
Code responsibly: OWASP.org Mark's blog: www.developMENTALmadness.com Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
I don't capitalize everything either, so I only highlight the keywords to capitalize them. (double-click the word or start just before it and ctrl-shift right arrow. ctrl-right arrow jumps a word, shift-end highlights to the end of the line, shift-home start. ctrl-shift-l gets lower case if I get too highlight crazy. u/l are SQL specific, the others generally work on text.)
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Thanks for the link and the reminder about how much I HATE the way Microsoft ?IMPROVES? things. IE9 is so totally useless I gave up trying how to figure out how to add favorites to it a long time ago. That link inspired me to search again. Yep, instructions are what I remembered prior to IE8. Not at all what it does now. This time I did add a folder and get this link bookmarked, but I was trying everything I could think of to get it added (including adding a folder.) and I haven't the faintest what I finally did to get it added. Then I managed to move the link to the folder I created. (Wonder of wonders, dragging worked.) It does work and is OK, but help sucks.
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Thanks. Since the general world doesn't know didilly about EBCEDIC, (Great, I even forgot how to spell it.) I take it that's ASCII?
