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Geek Culture / Sleep Coding

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Rye
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Location: United Kingdom, Blackrod
Posted: 31st May 2003 13:04
I went to bed last night and wrote down a bit of code before getting tired. I put my folder on my bedside cabinet and went to sleep.

I woke up the next day with the folder on my bed and an extra 3 functions had been written.

Can anyone explain this Phenomenon???

I then realised after reading what i had written that there were new ideas implemented into the functions, that i must have thought up in my sleep.
He who keeps his work in disorder gives home to chaos. Let him be struck with stone and iron to forge away his flaws
Rob K
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Posted: 31st May 2003 14:25
Aha! - Lee flew down to your house read your mind and wrote down some code then flew off into the night!

[It might explain why he posted "yesterday's" diary entry at 3.12 AM this morning]

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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 31st May 2003 16:21
It was the code fairies.

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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 31st May 2003 16:22
... or maybe you banged your head and got amnesia, or maybe you were too tired to remember.

cuRant PRogekt: a three-de map editer
Why the hell'd you ask me for crying out loud!?!
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indi
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Posted: 31st May 2003 17:28
did you remember to leave a dirty old floppy under your 386

hehe for the code fairy

Solidz Snake
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Posted: 31st May 2003 17:56
Wake up Neo, and follow the white rabbit..

...

hey, u're not Neo!

lol!

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Puzzler
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Posted: 31st May 2003 18:18
I once went to sleep one night and found half my code gone the next morning- maybe ther's some kinda transfer going on... :s

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hexGEAR
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Posted: 31st May 2003 18:24
haven't you guys heard if you need new ideas or have problems with your code, save it on a floppy and put it under you pillow at night and the "code fairies" as announced b4 will patch it up for you [currently trying to proove lee is the code fairy ]

to live is to suffer, to survive, well, thats to find meaning in the sufferening.....
Puzzler
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Posted: 31st May 2003 18:32
I wish that worked with French homework...

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hexGEAR
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Posted: 31st May 2003 18:35 Edited at: 31st May 2003 18:35
i wish that worked with any homework

to live is to suffer, to survive, well, thats to find meaning in the sufferening.....
Rob K
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Posted: 31st May 2003 18:36
"did you remember to leave a dirty old floppy under your 386 "

Umm... do they accept CDRs?

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Solidz Snake
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Posted: 31st May 2003 19:21
lol

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Ian T
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Posted: 1st Jun 2003 07:15
Don't use them! Those functions are the Dark Prophecies... evil doom... to all...





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Xander
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Location: In college...yeah!
Posted: 4th Jun 2003 18:18
yeah, my code won't fit on floppies anymore either....

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Van B
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Posted: 4th Jun 2003 18:37
Ermmm... actually that was me - payment for services rendered .

Now I gotta hide, I've been a cheeky bugger all damn day!!!


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Mattman
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Posted: 16th Jun 2003 21:35 Edited at: 16th Jun 2003 21:37
Lets get the code fairies and force 'em to expand our 30-day trials!!! Or upgrade DBC into DBP with their magic usb adaptor thingies that stop the "Insert disk" Thingy in DBP!

---Mattman
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Mortie
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Posted: 16th Jun 2003 22:15
You don't want to try that - the code fairies can get pretty vicious when they're angry. They've got nasty little teeth and one helluva way with the recycling bin

Contrariwise, what is the world without the life? You fail to see the reverse of your arguments, and you are defeated.
BatVink
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 00:45
I can't believe none of you have worked it out yet!!!!

Ryan obviously wrote a recursive function that called itself in the night.

Thanks in advance.
All the Best,
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Solidz Snake
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 03:45
maybe it was Ronaldo..

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8truths
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Posted: 17th Jun 2003 05:22
Watch the movie Memento . . . Just make sure you kill whoever it is around you that is the cheap character actor with the smirk and the mustache.

Ian T
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Posted: 18th Jun 2003 03:58
Grrrrup.

--Mouse

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