It's not that exciting!
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Is it just me or is it time to have an intervention and get everyone to stop placing exclamation marks after every status update. "Error occurred!", "Update complete!", "You pressed a button!!!1!". Enough. Please!
cheers Chris Maunder
I agree! I think that an exclamation point in a yellow triangle is enough for a warning type of message. There is no reason to also have one in the text. Worse, I recently encountered a website which implored me to "
Log in!" Such effusiveness made me much less enthusiastic about doing so. If the user experience is that bad, the code must be horrible. -
Is it just me or is it time to have an intervention and get everyone to stop placing exclamation marks after every status update. "Error occurred!", "Update complete!", "You pressed a button!!!1!". Enough. Please!
cheers Chris Maunder
The first version of any text I write is full of noise words, such as 'but', 'however', 'very', and various superfluous punctuation such as dashes, diareses and exclamation marks. I have a list of such elements, and before any sort of 'official' publication of the text, I work through it to remove all that noise, as well as simplifying sentence structure. Sometimes several cleaning rounds are required. For informal forum such as CP I never bother to dig up the complete list, but I always read my message trough from top to bottom before clicking 'Post Message', removing unnecessary words and exclamation marks. When I see 3+ exclamation marks in a single paragraph, or 2+ !? together, my intuitive reaction is: The writer is probably 14 or younger.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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The first version of any text I write is full of noise words, such as 'but', 'however', 'very', and various superfluous punctuation such as dashes, diareses and exclamation marks. I have a list of such elements, and before any sort of 'official' publication of the text, I work through it to remove all that noise, as well as simplifying sentence structure. Sometimes several cleaning rounds are required. For informal forum such as CP I never bother to dig up the complete list, but I always read my message trough from top to bottom before clicking 'Post Message', removing unnecessary words and exclamation marks. When I see 3+ exclamation marks in a single paragraph, or 2+ !? together, my intuitive reaction is: The writer is probably 14 or younger.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
trønderen wrote:
diareses
Or maybe ellipsises...?
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trønderen wrote:
diareses
Or maybe ellipsises...?
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Of course ... :-) (it is late at night in Norway right now)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
Isn't it always night during January in Norway?
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The first version of any text I write is full of noise words, such as 'but', 'however', 'very', and various superfluous punctuation such as dashes, diareses and exclamation marks. I have a list of such elements, and before any sort of 'official' publication of the text, I work through it to remove all that noise, as well as simplifying sentence structure. Sometimes several cleaning rounds are required. For informal forum such as CP I never bother to dig up the complete list, but I always read my message trough from top to bottom before clicking 'Post Message', removing unnecessary words and exclamation marks. When I see 3+ exclamation marks in a single paragraph, or 2+ !? together, my intuitive reaction is: The writer is probably 14 or younger.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Is it just me or is it time to have an intervention and get everyone to stop placing exclamation marks after every status update. "Error occurred!", "Update complete!", "You pressed a button!!!1!". Enough. Please!
cheers Chris Maunder
I know a programmer who just loves exclamation marks. He'd used to do things like: MessageBox.Show("An error occurred!!!") Very unprofessional.
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Of course ... :-) (it is late at night in Norway right now)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I know a programmer who just loves exclamation marks. He'd used to do things like: MessageBox.Show("An error occurred!!!") Very unprofessional.
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Terry Pratchett - "Eric":
"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."
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Is it just me or is it time to have an intervention and get everyone to stop placing exclamation marks after every status update. "Error occurred!", "Update complete!", "You pressed a button!!!1!". Enough. Please!
cheers Chris Maunder
I used to add exclamation marks in error logs to quickly analyze them with BareTail :D One exclamation mark would trigger the highlighting in yellow, two highlight in red, [OK] in green.
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Is it just me or is it time to have an intervention and get everyone to stop placing exclamation marks after every status update. "Error occurred!", "Update complete!", "You pressed a button!!!1!". Enough. Please!
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
You pressed a button!!!1!
Real talk, my mom used to always let go of the shift key when using exclamation marks and did that on accident. So, I spent several years doing that intentionally everywhere, as a joke. :-\
Jeremy Falcon
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Is it just me or is it time to have an intervention and get everyone to stop placing exclamation marks after every status update. "Error occurred!", "Update complete!", "You pressed a button!!!1!". Enough. Please!
cheers Chris Maunder
Wasn't there a Seinfeld episode involving exclamation points?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I agree! I think that an exclamation point in a yellow triangle is enough for a warning type of message. There is no reason to also have one in the text. Worse, I recently encountered a website which implored me to "
Log in!" Such effusiveness made me much less enthusiastic about doing so. If the user experience is that bad, the code must be horrible.PIEBALDconsult wrote:
website which implored me to "Log in!" Such effusiveness made me much less enthusiastic about doing so. If the user experience is that bad, the code must be horrible.
To me the message that gets conveyed is that the developer of said login feature was surprised he got it working at all, and just felt like sharing.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
website which implored me to "Log in!" Such effusiveness made me much less enthusiastic about doing so. If the user experience is that bad, the code must be horrible.
To me the message that gets conveyed is that the developer of said login feature was surprised he got it working at all, and just felt like sharing.
Or maybe gets paid per login?
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Chris Maunder wrote:
You pressed a button!!!1!
Real talk, my mom used to always let go of the shift key when using exclamation marks and did that on accident. So, I spent several years doing that intentionally everywhere, as a joke. :-\
Jeremy Falcon
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Isn't it always night during January in Norway?
As of today, I would call it full daylight from around 08:00 to around 16:00. That is in middle Norway, at 63°N. Norway spans from roughly 58 to 71 degrees, so it varies greatly. We do not have midnight sun in summer where I live! (That is only north of 66°33'N.) One significant difference from places further south: We have extremely long dawn and evening hours (the plural 's' in 'hours' is significant!). So you can never really tell the exact start and end of the day. You can of course go by sunrise/sunset, but it is light long before and long after, enough to read the newspaper without using artificial light. (News_paper_, that is! News webpages are readable even in pitch darkness :-).)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I always read my message trough Trough !
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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As of today, I would call it full daylight from around 08:00 to around 16:00. That is in middle Norway, at 63°N. Norway spans from roughly 58 to 71 degrees, so it varies greatly. We do not have midnight sun in summer where I live! (That is only north of 66°33'N.) One significant difference from places further south: We have extremely long dawn and evening hours (the plural 's' in 'hours' is significant!). So you can never really tell the exact start and end of the day. You can of course go by sunrise/sunset, but it is light long before and long after, enough to read the newspaper without using artificial light. (News_paper_, that is! News webpages are readable even in pitch darkness :-).)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
trønderen wrote:
News webpages are readable even in pitch darkness
Where they belong.
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Is it just me or is it time to have an intervention and get everyone to stop placing exclamation marks after every status update. "Error occurred!", "Update complete!", "You pressed a button!!!1!". Enough. Please!
cheers Chris Maunder
Says the guy whose own site says, "Submit your solution!"
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Says the guy whose own site says, "Submit your solution!"
Where? I will hunt that exclamation down like a dog
cheers Chris Maunder
