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  • C Chris Maunder

    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

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    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.

    GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next

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    • C Chris Maunder

      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

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      Jeremy Falcon
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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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      • C Chris Maunder

        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

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        jeron1
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        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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        • P PIEBALDconsult

          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.

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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.

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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.

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            PIEBALDconsult
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            Or maybe gets paid per login?

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            • J Jeremy Falcon

              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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              dandy72
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              Jeremy Falcon wrote:

              So, I spent several years doing that intentionally everywhere, as a joke. :-\

              ...and then there's the meme where someone will actually spell out "one" in the middle of one of those, as if it could happen by accident. OMG!!!!1!!one!!

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              • P PIEBALDconsult

                Isn't it always night during January in Norway?

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                trønderen
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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.

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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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                  trønderen
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                  :-) I wrote that message at 02:00 at night; I wasn't completely awake.

                  Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.

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                  • T trønderen

                    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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                    PIEBALDconsult
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                    trønderen wrote:

                    News webpages are readable even in pitch darkness

                    Where they belong.

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                    • C Chris Maunder

                      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

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                      PIEBALDconsult
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                      Says the guy whose own site says, "Submit your solution!"

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                      • P PIEBALDconsult

                        Says the guy whose own site says, "Submit your solution!"

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                        Chris Maunder
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                        Where? I will hunt that exclamation down like a dog

                        cheers Chris Maunder

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                        • C Chris Maunder

                          Where? I will hunt that exclamation down like a dog

                          cheers Chris Maunder

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                          PIEBALDconsult
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                          The button for submitting a solution to a Q/A question. Go git 'em!

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                          • P PIEBALDconsult

                            The button for submitting a solution to a Q/A question. Go git 'em!

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                            Chris Maunder
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                            Done. And the magic of Git allows me to cast a dirty look in the appropriate direction (even though it's been starting me in the face for 10 years now, so I do have to share the blame)

                            cheers Chris Maunder

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                            • C Chris Maunder

                              Done. And the magic of Git allows me to cast a dirty look in the appropriate direction (even though it's been starting me in the face for 10 years now, so I do have to share the blame)

                              cheers Chris Maunder

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                              PIEBALDconsult
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                              One small step for a man...

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