You know you've been coding too long when...

**ibeblunt** · Dec 12, 2001 15:44

...you leave a note for your wife, and comment out the apostrophes.

...you explain to your nephew how to ride a bike using if then statements. "If you lean too far the right, you will fall. If you lean too far to the left you will fall. Else, you'll be ok."

Feel free to add on...

**qslack** · Dec 12, 2001 18:58

You know you've been working with cryptography too long when...

...you think round numbers are powers of 2, not powers of 10

**ibeblunt** · Dec 14, 2001 17:44

...when you plan to make your Christmas cards in Flash and send them out via e-mail and get mad when you discover half the people on your Christmas list still don't have e-mail! [Grandma needs to get with it!]

**Herbster** · Dec 14, 2001 18:53

Not as clever as the other contributions but, unfortunately, true:

...When you wake up dreaming about a small, "nested" JavaScript function that, when downloaded to the client and executed, would "unfold" an entire webpage without transmitting any other data - and then you try to remember how it worked over your first cup of coffee...

**hillsy** · Dec 15, 2001 11:51

When trying to watch a movie on TV but all you can think about is how to produce a small document management system based upon an embedded database that can distributed on a CD-ROM and updated via the web

True story from about 2hrs ago. And I still don't have the answer

**thecoofunka** · Dec 15, 2001 12:37

i didnt real get you

**RKuhle** · Dec 15, 2001 15:50

When your eyelids are being held open by tooth picks and Scotch tape.

When you talk to people using print and echo statements (I've actually done something very similar, quite often too!)

**Sparklit** · Dec 16, 2001 01:15

When .... you pass up a date with an atractive girl/guy because you want to figure out how to make your application accessible as a SOAP object....

**Adam P.** · Dec 16, 2001 01:48

When... (and I really did this once)

you're sitting in ceramics class, making an ant, and you make the perfect leg. It took forever and you have to make 5 more. Instead you try to copy+paste. (I actually said to myself "copy - paste"!).

**qslack** · Dec 16, 2001 02:01

Originally posted by swimm5001
you're sitting in ceramics class, making an ant, and you make the perfect leg. It took forever and you have to make 5 more. Instead you try to copy+paste. (I actually said to myself "copy - paste"!).

Or if you write a 5-line Perl script to make the legs for you

**hillsy** · Dec 16, 2001 02:15

Originally posted by qslack

Or if you write a 5-line Perl script to make the legs for you

Then instead of finishing the ant you start working out how to make the script clean your teeth, defrag your hard drive and wash your car at the same time

**paroxysm** · Dec 16, 2001 17:09

... when you postpone the 'release' operation for your carpal tunnel syndrome because there is just one more error to attend to.

**Ian Glass** · Dec 16, 2001 17:13

...When you attempt to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus...

:-p

**Tyhe** · Dec 16, 2001 18:18

... you can actually make out the code used in "the Matrix"

**isotope235** · Dec 16, 2001 19:13

When you can't make a decision without creating a select statement first & all your dreams return error statements - "syntax error in the where clause"

**Maelstrom** · Dec 16, 2001 19:55

When you are watching tv and always trying to figure out how to simulate the effects for web display and never really seeing the ads

**M. Johansson** · Dec 16, 2001 21:32

When you laugh at threads like these.

**DR_LaRRY_PEpPeR** · Dec 16, 2001 23:37

Originally posted by truelight
"DELETE * FROM user"
DAMMIT - forgot the WHERE clause. Now where is that backup?

you won't need that backup because that query won't work in MySQL.

**Aes** · Dec 17, 2001 00:41

**Maelstrom** · Dec 17, 2001 01:37

Originally posted by Aes

ashahahaha

My god I have to print that one

**M. Johansson** · Dec 17, 2001 07:47

Originally posted by DR_LaRRY_PEpPeR

you won't need that backup because that query won't work in MySQL.

Awright, smarty-pants, I've changed it!

**Winged Spider** · Dec 17, 2001 14:39

you are given clean code to work with you give thanks to "HREF", the HTML god.

you remember peoples names by creating a XML document in your head:

Code:

<face name="helga">
<hair>brown</hair>
<nose>broken</nose>
<teeth>missing</teeth>
</face>

your girlfriend comes over to try and see if your still alive. ( sorry, Lil... )

**Technosailor** · Dec 17, 2001 14:54

Originally posted by Tyhe
... you can actually make out the code used in "the Matrix"

...or know EXACTLY what Sandra Bullock is doing in "The Net"...

(I do, I do!)

Sketch

**DR_LaRRY_PEpPeR** · Dec 17, 2001 16:14

Originally posted by truelight
Awright, smarty-pants, I've changed it!

**qslack** · Dec 17, 2001 17:28

Originally posted by Sketch

...or know EXACTLY what Sandra Bullock is doing in "The Net"... (I do, I do!)

All of the movie computers are really fake, it's funny. Like in Hackers, they used stylish Macs to crack into servers, each of which had a 3D interface and was really just made up of a bunch of incomprehensible text flying around in three dimensions.