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Torrey
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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 14:43
You know you're addicted to coding when...

°Triple espresso's start tasting bland

°You have nightmares about COBOL and ADA.

°You have good dreams about multiple inheritance, factories, and compilers that support partial template specialization.

°Instead of using MS Word, you type your essay for school in HTML using NotePad.

°School? What's that?

°You can multiply a 32 bit binary number by a 6 digit hexadecimal number in your head.

°You laugh at movies that show programmers at work.

°You walk outside and wonder why the sun doesn't make a lens-flare in your eye....

°You get withdrawal symptoms if you're away from a computer for more than 3 hours

°(Lines_of_Code) / (Hours_of_Sleep) < (Number_of_Energy_Drinks_Consumed)

°Every time you look at your clock, you see a power of 2 (6:40, 1:28, 2:56, 5:12, 10:24)

°You're pressing CTRL+S every 5 minutes, in every application..

°You end each line you type with ";", even plain english ones;

°You code your own support software for the digital camera you just bought

°When your significant other mentions having kids you lecture her on the disadvantages of multiple inheritance.

°MSVC opens on startup.

°Whenever somebody asks you to do something, you try to think of a way to write a program that would help you.

°You have 2 bookshelves filled with programming books in your room... because the 5 shelves in the living room are full.

°You know the following sequence by heart: 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 65536 131072

°You read The Tao of Programming...and relate.

°You need an intercom for downstairs to tell your parents / girlfriend / wife / whatever to get you more JOLT.

°When you take a break from programming, and program.

°When you can say with a great level of confidance that you have written more lines of code than english.

°You wake up in the middle of the night with the solution to your coding problem.

°Your 4 year old son has seen you login and out of Windows and Linux so much that he can do it himself.

°You are the only one who knows what the difference is between a coder and a programmer.

°You have more groceries inside your keyboard than in your fridge.

°You have a toothbrush next to your monitor.

°You watch a tv sitcom and think "I could write an algorithm that writes the scripts for these things"

°You sit stuck at traffic lights and work out a more efficient algorithm for them, based on road orientation, sensor placement, time of year, time of day, weather and local sporting events, in your head.

°The people you respect most you have never physically seen or spoken to, but you always bow to their knowledge.

°Your family informs you than you should go and make some more friends ...so you start coding AI routines.

°You consider 'drinking caffeine' and 'sleeping' to be synonyms.

°You can write 'Pong' in any language for any OS (or even NO OS) in under 4 minutes.

°You get drunk\high\otherwise intoxicated just for a different coding experience.

°You think of sex as an algorithm.

°Sunshine genuinely hurts your eyes.

°You actually feel like crap from getting 8 hours of sleep, that just so unnatural

°You can't help but squeeze math and research topics in while sweet-talking to a girl.

°You have a "hacker's manicure" (i.e. huge calluses on all your fingers)

°When you die you want "Hello world" carved into your headstone

°You keep old computers around and boot them up every once in awhile for the nostalgia.

°You would like to have an Aibo to see if you can run Linux on it.

°Your mother phoned you to see if you were still alive, and you responded "ping".

°You look at your old code and cringe

°You got a D in Computer Programming class because you where coding a plasma effect instead of a "Hello World!" program

°You read books on quantum physics and time-travel to relax.

°When someone asks you your favorite color, you give the RGB code in binary.

°No one else can ever use your computer, as it is tweaked so much only you know how to use it.

°The first time you use another person's computer it takes you less than 30 seconds to completely disable all useless programs from running at boot and uninstalling all the ad-ware the fools had on the system.
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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 14:59
°You got a D in Computer Programming class because you where coding a plasma effect instead of a "Hello World!" program

true,true


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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 14:59
Quote: "°You got a D in Computer Programming class because you where coding a plasma effect instead of a "Hello World!" program"


teehee

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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 15:15
°Your mother phoned you to see if you were still alive, and you responded "ping".

I'm tempted to try this next time my mom calls.
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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 15:21
Er, that'd be pong. These fake nerds


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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 15:23
°When you finish your sentences with a semicolon instead of a period
Torrey
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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 16:37
Quote: "Er, that'd be pong. These fake nerds"


You're right about that one!

Have you ever manually replied to a ping? The ones on undernet have a lot of random words that come through.
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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 18:43
"You write C++ style comments in your homework"


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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 18:56 Edited at: 29th Oct 2004 18:56
Quote: "You laugh at movies that show programmers at work.

You're pressing CTRL+S every 5 minutes, in every application..

You know the following sequence by heart: 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 65536 131072"


Hehe, so true

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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 19:07 Edited at: 29th Oct 2004 19:08
...you think that when on the news you see the word Hacker you worry they are coming after you


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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 20:03
Quite a few of those...the powers of 2 for example

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Posted: 29th Oct 2004 21:01 Edited at: 29th Oct 2004 21:02
You know your not a programer when you waist your time making a list like that. lol j/k

these are pretty funny
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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 00:04
Quote: "you think that when on the news you see the word Hacker you worry they are coming after you
"


same for me, cept for the word pirate instead of hacker... err not that i pirate anything but i hate hackers, they are only good when they give me no cd patches so i dont have to go switchin and scuffin cds.

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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 00:08
Quote: "You're pressing CTRL+S every 5 minutes, in every application.."


How true

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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 00:27
Quote: "You watch a tv sitcom and think "I could write an algorithm that writes the scripts for these things""




Quote: "°You read books on quantum physics and time-travel to relax."

heh..i've actually done this one

i've done about %50 of these ..scary

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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 00:36
I can't relate to any of these, really!

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Quote: "You keep old computers around and boot them up every once in awhile for the nostalgia."


I love the way they smell... so many childhood memories

Quote: "You can't help but squeeze math and research topics in while sweet-talking to a girl."


It works for me...

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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 00:47
Quote: "°You're pressing CTRL+S every 5 minutes, in every application.."

Thats an obsession.

AKA teh great Pet Rat.
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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 00:52
°You're wearing tripple glasses to see your screen.

Quote: "°Sunshine genuinely hurts your eyes."


Think everyone has that problem here



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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 00:53 Edited at: 30th Oct 2004 00:55
Its so sad, i do most of that...

Well, at least i've found my place in life


EDIT: Whats this "sunlight" you're talking about? You mean this planet actually recieves light from its sun? I always assumed the earth didn't rotate, because I do not think I have seen this "sun"


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I say the sun once... I was playing halo, and when I died my caracter looked up and there it was!

Quote: "°You got a D in Computer Programming class because you where coding a plasma effect instead of a "Hello World!" program"
I did somthing like that, except I was making an algorithim to randomly swear at the user instead of that Plasma thing.

It's amazing how much TV has raised us. (Bart Simpson)
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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 02:04
most of that is true for me.. yet i havnt been programming long

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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 05:57
Quote: "EDIT: Whats this "sunlight" you're talking about? You mean this planet actually recieves light from its sun? I always assumed the earth didn't rotate, because I do not think I have seen this "sun""


The earth doesn't rotate, it just has its UVs scrolled.

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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 06:10 Edited at: 30th Oct 2004 06:10
Quote: "The earth doesn't rotate, it just has its UVs scrolled."

No, it rotates on it's Y axis.

Some of that is true for me.
What does ctrl-s do?
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Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"


Quote: "We shouldn't sacrifice the truth to preserve "balance"."
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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 06:13
Quote: "The earth doesn't rotate, it just has its UVs scrolled."

That would mean a very bumpy ride for all of us. I'm glad the earth is flat as a pizza.

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...and if the Earth had it's UVs scrolled, none of the terrain or people would rotate, they'd just look very weird.

For example:
You spray-paint a building.
Your spray-paint immeditly moves to the next building.

Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"


Quote: "We shouldn't sacrifice the truth to preserve "balance"."
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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 06:20
°And in when you write graffiti on walls you spray:
TEXT 320,240,"F*** You" + "!"

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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 17:55
What?


Create? Play? YOU Decide
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Posted: 30th Oct 2004 21:20
Quote: "You have more groceries inside your keyboard than in your fridge"


How true! I'm getting bits of tuna sandwich in there as I'm writing this!

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° When you're on the computer over half of the day

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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 01:30 Edited at: 31st Oct 2004 01:34
@Mouse

Quote: "Er, that'd be pong. These fake nerds "

thats exactly what I thought and was gonna say...
ROFL

Quote: "And in when you write graffiti on walls you spray:
TEXT 320,240,"F*** You" + "!""

noooo, I spray: TEXT 320,240,"F*** You!"




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Quote: "°No one else can ever use your computer, as it is tweaked so much only you know how to use it.

°The first time you use another person's computer it takes you less than 30 seconds to completely disable all useless programs from running at boot and uninstalling all the ad-ware the fools had on the system. "




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°You're getting into bed, you wonder should I read about Java or carry on reading "Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy".

°You dismiss both ideas, and think "Lets just get into bed so I can immagine I'm a 1337 coder."

..Sad thing is last night that actually happened
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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 03:36
Oh the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is my most favorite book ever.

God I'm sad.

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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 04:49 Edited at: 31st Oct 2004 23:16
LOL!!! About 12 of those applied to me...

*You wake up each morning to find keyboard imprints on your face.
*You can't get to sleep at night if your code isn't working correctly.
*During math class you program games on your TI-89.
*You can beat anyone at thumb wrestling because you have more finger strength.
*Your idea of a productive weekend is getting your AI routines to work.
*You fear your life is stuck in a non-terminating Do/Loop.
*You complain about not having enough time to meet your deadlines so you have planned a light-speed trip to a neutron star.
*You have nightmares about forgetting to put a Sync in your Main Loop.
*You get an F for accidently writing your term paper in binary.
*You've lost 20 pounds on your coffee and hotpockets diet.
*You correct anyone who says a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes, knowing it is in fact 1,024. [Edit: Sorry about that]
*When you get the money, you plan on genetically altering your hands so they each have six fingers.
*When faced with a tough decision you first write an If/Then/Else/Endif statement.
*After testing a new video game you go home and program a better version on your computer.
*You know the true definition of a Matrix.
*You read programming manuals when you get bored.
*Your goal in life is to program a Virtual World where you can reign supreme.
*You've programmed viruses that can delete someone’s hard drive but can't find anyone that will let you test it on their computer.
*After finishing a game you actually read the credits.
*You spend 45 minutes writing a "You know your addicted to programing if..." list.
*[Edit: When you begin to write things within brackets]

...lol... I just thought these up, I hope you like them...


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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 04:52
a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, not 1028.

I mean.... not.. that i.... new that already.... i figured... maybe... CRUD! IM A NERD!

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*when your explaining something to someone after you say if this you end it with else or endif xD

o_o; Ive done that too!


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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 07:41
Quote: " a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, not 1028."

i was about to say that

oh god oh god oh god I fit too many of those...well most or elements of some

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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 07:46 Edited at: 31st Oct 2004 07:46
Quote: "°You have 2 bookshelves filled with programming books in your room... because the 5 shelves in the living room are full."


I wish I had a bookshelf. These books are all over the place. Living room, kitchen, bathroom, both bedrooms, closets, etc.

Quote: "°You think of sex as an algorithm."


I tried to think of it that way as a kid and attempted programming the algorithm in qbasic for 5 days straight and then came to realize it wouldn't compile.

Quote: "°Sunshine genuinely hurts your eyes."


Not only does it hurt my eyes, but since I've worked the night shift for so long, I hate driving in the daytime because of all the cars.
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Quote: "Not only does it hurt my eyes, but since I've worked the night shift for so long, I hate driving in the daytime because of all the cars."


I can see perfectly for about 25m in the dark (without my glasses because I get lense flair...in the dark )

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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 07:50 Edited at: 31st Oct 2004 07:56
When you tell your friends that you not only speak fluent English, but C++ and BASIC as well.

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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 08:17
er why does the sun not make a lens-flare in your eye???

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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 09:50
One time I had a dream that I coded a MMORPG in DarkBasic, but when I saved, I realized it was a dream and got pissed off.

Quote: "I've seen the word programming and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody please explain?"


Quote: "We shouldn't sacrifice the truth to preserve "balance"."
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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 09:04
Quote: "er why does the sun not make a lens-flare in your eye???"


I briefly discussed that in the unpublished Sun Flare Tutorial I wrote for TGC:

Lens flares occur inside the lens of a camera when the anti-reflective material fails and instead creates a secondary reflection that comes out in the picture. This only occurs when the picture is taken facing into a bright light, like you might see at a sporting event. Sun flares are the same thing except they occur when the camera is facing towards the sun.

Due to the fact that sun flares can only be created from inside a camera lens, you will never see one with the naked eye. Instead, you can only witness such effects in films and photographs.


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Posted: 31st Oct 2004 09:20
One time I had a dream that I coded a MMORPG in DarkBasic, but when I saved, I realized it was a dream and got pissed off.

the default IDE sucks
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your kids will know you are a programer when you are 50 and have bionic legs and eyes.

This is my counting program

do: print "87" : loop
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Quote: "When you tell your friends that you not only speak fluent English, but C++ and BASIC as well."
I say "I speak fluent english, french, and progamming languages(I also made up a langauge with only two words: "Urg!" and "Oog!" )"!

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you know your addicted to coding when a form of writing is c++

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when you correct your programing teachers code.

This is my counting program

do: print "87" : loop
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This thread reminded me of this page: http://www.gameai.com/youmight.html

It even has one of mine:
Quote: "If the words "open source" get you more excited than the words "free porn"...you might be a Game Developer. (04/03/02)

Courtesy of videogameaholic..."


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