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10 Signs You've Been Coding Too Much

Pachi 🥑 on May 10, 2024

A little humor for this Friday, anyone? Have you ever wondered if those hours in front of the screen are turning you into a coding machine? While ...
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Michael Tharrington

Haha, loving the humor here!! This is a fun one, Pachi. 😀

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Pachi 🥑

Thanks haha It is humor, bur may hit too close to the reality for some haha

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Melroy van den Berg

More programming jokes please

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Dave Lim

20+ years ago, I was working on a system with a complex commission calculation formula. I couldn't code according to the given matrix for 3 days, and I barely sleep.
The third day I was exhausted and decided to go back have some good rest.
In the middle of the night, i jump down from my bed and write the code in my dream and I solve it 🤣🤣

I knew I code too much, and I'm still coding today at age 47 🤪🤪

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abraham

concentration generates "traffic jams" in our neuron network, while relax is likely to free them.
when asked by my boss about my strolling in the middle of the working hours, my invariable answer is that he should pay me more for the strolling hours, since this is my time I find the solutions.
well, at least for the times I come back 😹

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Pachi 🥑

Lol lol you dream of code that really works hahaha

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Dave Lim

LoL... No joke that code really works...
From then I understand I need good and enough rest and sleep to code better..

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Melroy van den Berg • Edited

100%. Coding is a creative and mental process. A good amount of sleep helps you solve complex coding problems better. It's not just skill issue.

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Frank

Its crazy because its often feels like a punishment to take a break, and some how you finally decide to punish yourself and when you get back from your punishment, you realize that you've just solved a bug issiue that had taking away 6hrs in less than a minute. There is always an important next line of code to write.

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Vaibhav Pathak

Why are you talking about my life bro??

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Pachi 🥑

👀👀👀

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J Mac

Loved it!! Should I be worried, though?
My sins:

  1. You Dream in Code 💤
  2. You Speak in Script Syntax 🗣️
  3. You Laugh at Jokes About Binary 👾
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Pachi 🥑

Go for a walk outside right now LOL

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Corbin Taylor

This is a great and funny post. Good job, @pachicodes

Further, can I just say that,

Excel is supposed to be about numbers, not existential crises about the nature of reality

is probably one of my favorite lines I've read this year from a Tech article.

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Pachi 🥑

Owwwwn thanks 💖

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Hendrawan Kuncoro

Your Solution to Every Problem is to Write a Script
hits too close

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Desmond Obinna

This is funny 😁

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Pachi 🥑

Thank you!

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Guilherme Taffarel Bergamin

#3 inspired me to hang a fly swatter on my cubicle

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Pachi 🥑

Hahaha

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junyiwang

Imagine if AI took care of everything and my only job was to catch some Z's!🥹

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Manjunath

Lol! Looks like I’ve experienced most of’em. Especially, dreaming about code had happened more often. I love this humour here though.

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Pachi 🥑

Hope you don't dream of bugs hahaha

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Abdulsalaam Noibi

Omg, This is me some few months ago 😂

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abraham

when I began trying Pascal, I was worried about things I can't do yet.

real life things, I mean, not programming related ones.

quite embarrassing.

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jasonfx13 • Edited

I couldn't find the undo button on something I messed up writing down by hand the other day

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MattTheCuber

That's just bad UX smh

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Pachi 🥑

This is so rude that there is no bottom for that 😂

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Corbin Taylor

"...reconnect with the world beyond your IDE."

Got it. I'll reconnect with my terminal. I was thinking of revamping my .zshrc file anyways :P

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Pachi 🥑

😂😂😂😂 nooooooo

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Mohammed Shoaib

At some point in my life, I've experienced all these situations

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Pachi 🥑

Hope you are better now haha

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Ankesh Kapil

Happened to me in my first job.

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Pachi 🥑

Glad you are cured hahaha

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Timex Peachtree

Almost all of em, have even been thinking how to optimize workouts while working out in treadmills.

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Pachi 🥑

😂😂😂

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Matthew Harris

And here I thought that just meant I cared about my work

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Aniagolu Chiemelie ®

Well, funny enough, I unknowingly do some of the things you stated in this article 😅

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Pachi 🥑

😂😂😂 go for walk

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mobile tricks

Well it can help in some cases

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Graham

All of the above plus going to a party after finishing a month of almost 24/7 coding and leaving because nobody there spoke Fortran (well, it WAS the 70s)

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Pachi 🥑

😂😂😂😂😂

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MattTheCuber

AI generated cover photo lol

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Wyseel

Man, I hate it when the A.I. spells "you've been" wrong.

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Vincenzo

is this post ai generated?

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Pachi 🥑

Nope.
But I did ask IA to give me ideas about funny dev related articles