Answering your own questions
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- Skittlewidth
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Answering your own questions
Thanks to my boss's attempt to make the office smell less like a dirty laundry basket my mind is now clouded with shake 'n' vac and I'm really quite light headed. This is making programming and even lifting one's coffee cup to one's mouth quite a challenge.
Anyway my productivity has slowed and I'm making basic mistakes all over the place, and I very nearly made a post in the Code forums before realising halfway through what the problem was (for the second or third time this week).
Does anyone else find that they get halfway through making a post and then work it all out themselves? It's satisfying but doesn't do your post count any favours... been here on and off for 3 years this month with a pitiful post count of 173! I should open my mouth more or at least get confident enough to help more people out!
Anyway my productivity has slowed and I'm making basic mistakes all over the place, and I very nearly made a post in the Code forums before realising halfway through what the problem was (for the second or third time this week).
Does anyone else find that they get halfway through making a post and then work it all out themselves? It's satisfying but doesn't do your post count any favours... been here on and off for 3 years this month with a pitiful post count of 173! I should open my mouth more or at least get confident enough to help more people out!
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Dead right. I often get right through making my post then submit it. Once I read it back to myself I figure it out 
Sod's law.
I'm the same at work. I'll be stuck on something for ages, just mulling it over in my mind. Then I try to get help from a collegaue and as soon as I verbally explain the problem it just clicks what's gone wrong
Sod's law.
I'm the same at work. I'll be stuck on something for ages, just mulling it over in my mind. Then I try to get help from a collegaue and as soon as I verbally explain the problem it just clicks what's gone wrong
Happens to me all the time,
Me: "Dave, you got a min?"
Dave: "Yeah sure, what's up"
Me: "Fancy a quick code review? It's going pete tong and I can't see why"
Dave: "Ok, let's have a look"
Me: "Right.. user inputs this, that and the other, then click submit and AHA! Found the problem, all ok now"
Dave: "Glad I could be of assistance, be sure to comment in my peer's report for my next pay review."
Me: lol
Dave: lol

Me: "Dave, you got a min?"
Dave: "Yeah sure, what's up"
Me: "Fancy a quick code review? It's going pete tong and I can't see why"
Dave: "Ok, let's have a look"
Me: "Right.. user inputs this, that and the other, then click submit and AHA! Found the problem, all ok now"
Dave: "Glad I could be of assistance, be sure to comment in my peer's report for my next pay review."
Me: lol
Dave: lol
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Yep that's all too familiarJenk wrote:Happens to me all the time,
Me: "Dave, you got a min?"
Dave: "Yeah sure, what's up"
Me: "Fancy a quick code review? It's going pete tong and I can't see why"
Dave: "Ok, let's have a look"
Me: "Right.. user inputs this, that and the other, then click submit and AHA! Found the problem, all ok now"
Dave: "Glad I could be of assistance, be sure to comment in my peer's report for my next pay review."
Me: lol
Dave: lol
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Actually, explaining the problem out loud to the boss can be a particularly good move. My boss has read 23 pages of his new PHP and MySQL book (basically the contents pages) and understands nada, so if I talk out loud about the thing I'm struggling to code he
a) can't tell if I'm just being an idiot
and
b) admires my problem solving skills when I realise what I should have done!
a) can't tell if I'm just being an idiot
and
b) admires my problem solving skills when I realise what I should have done!
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This reminds me by support center personel.
Me: Hello i have a problem regarding implementation of your active X.
Him: What error.
Me: Throws a error code: 12021 without a specific error message
Him: Yes, not i know is a problem between lines 2000 and 2021, i will contact you with patch tomorrow.
Me: But i need you to solve it for me today, not tomorrow.
Him: Yes but is a large error cause by the fact that your system is not compatible with our program, as i said we will contact you tomorrow.
Me: Should i give you system details
Him: No need, thank you. (he hangs up).
Me: Hello i have a problem regarding implementation of your active X.
Him: What error.
Me: Throws a error code: 12021 without a specific error message
Him: Yes, not i know is a problem between lines 2000 and 2021, i will contact you with patch tomorrow.
Me: But i need you to solve it for me today, not tomorrow.
Him: Yes but is a large error cause by the fact that your system is not compatible with our program, as i said we will contact you tomorrow.
Me: Should i give you system details
Him: No need, thank you. (he hangs up).
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Re: Answering your own questions
Me too ... almost like team programming ... me and phpDN.Skittlewidth wrote:Does anyone else find that they get halfway through making a post and then work it all out themselves?