Happiness?

Alberto Bar Noy

Ahh bliss. The most gentle music to code with :)

Alberto Bar-Noy --------------- “The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!” (C3PO)

Lost User

Happiness is a challenge and the belief that you have the ability to meet it.

NormDroid

Just about to post the same message, lucky for me I cross checked the cabin before posting.

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Sentenryu

viaducting wrote:

Adequate sleep. Correct grammar and punctuation.

you must be a very sad man ;P

I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)

hairy_hats

You missed out the capital letter and the full stop, so yes I am. :(( I feel lousy if I don't have enough sleep. I feel good if I have adequate sleep. Why does that make me sad?

Alberto Bar Noy

So true about sleep. A white night with a kid screaming means a cranky dev with no safety fuses or pins in the morning. A good 6 hours makes a happy dev :)

Alberto Bar-Noy --------------- “The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!” (C3PO)

Henry Minute

Happiness is the greatest gift that I posses. It is an ocean tide or a sunset fading on a mountain side. It is a field of grain turning its face to the falling rain. A wise old man told me one time "when you go to measuring my success don't count my money, count my happiness."

Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

GuyThiebaut

But it is Bach - what better earworm could one have? Imagine Poker Face by Lady Gaga going through your mind, go on imagine that... ;) (p p p p poker face p p p p poker face...)

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Alberto Bar Noy

Blast you! I am listening to Power Metal and now you just inserted that crap in my mind... playing all along with the fine chords of Virgin Steele :^) :^) :^) :^)

Alberto Bar-Noy --------------- “The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!” (C3PO)

Mike Hankey

Henry Minute wrote:

Happiness is the greatest gift that I posses. It is an ocean tide or a sunset fading on a mountain side. It is a field of grain turning its face to the falling rain.

Amen! Happines can come in the simplest of things.

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S Houghtelin

Alberto Bar-Noy wrote:

a cranky dev with no safety fuses or pins in the morning

I think that describes most developers regardless of their situation... :sigh:

It was broke, so I fixed it.

Lost User

Doddering, Henry?

All that is necessary for Evil to succeed is for Good Folks to keep voting for their Party. - Cornelius Thirp

S Houghtelin

Happiness is having others appreciate the work you do, like when the owner of the company smiles when you demonstrate your application. Having someone hear one of my songs and say that’s really cool and inspiring. When my daughter hugs me and says I love you Daddy, and when my Wife reaches over and takes my hand and gives it that gentle squeeze for no reason. Happiness is knowing when things go wrong I’ll get through it a better person as I always have.

It was broke, so I fixed it.

Henry Minute

All right! I confess[^]! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

Henry Minute

See my reply to Mike (above, or below if you're one of those weirdos that browse in reverse). :-D

Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

Mike Hankey

Henry Minute wrote:

I confess[^]!

I don't think I would of. :)

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BobJanova

Happiness doesn't really have anything to do with being a software engineer, I think ... like any job, this one is a means to an end (i.e. it pays for a house, food, services and then elective entertainment which is what you do to be happier). Happiness is seeing your team win something important, or, better, being a part of a team that wins something. Happiness is coming home after a hard day and your SO is there with sympathy and a cup of tea. It's a rainbow over the mountains after you just got rained on for half an hour getting to the viewpoint. I think it's always transient, it's the little moments that life gives us that are better than the usual. It's not possible to be happy all the time, because it can't be better than usual all the time, and we get accustomed to what's usual – i.e. our everyday life, even for a poor person, is beyond the wildest dreams of medieval lords, but we aren't all ecstatic the whole time. But life throws something at you almost every day that will provide some happiness. That's a bit deep for a coding forum :~

Kschuler

Happiness is like wetting your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it's warmth.

Lost User

Kschuler wrote:

Happiness is like wetting your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it's warmth.

And its lasts only moments as soon after ridicule and embarassment set in crushing your happiness into but a faded memory that you can no longer even comprehend ;P

Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.

PIEBALDconsult

Ah, a balanced opinion. :thumbsup: