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norm Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: [s]underwater[/s] under-snow in Juneau Insane since: Sep 2002	posted 09-26-2002 04:38 Ok, I'm not shy. I'll go first. Hi, my name's Norm and I've been a compulsive coder for....well, I've kinda lost track of time. It's easy to do that sitting in front of the glowing screen. I used to have a Life. But now I can barely bring myself to stop long enough to eat, or to shower. Sometimes I can fall asleep, but then the dreams come; conditionals, classes and methods everywhere. Occasionally there will be people in my dreams, but I usually end up putting them into an array and accessing them with a for-loop. My significant other has left me, and my dog just growls at me now. I don't know what to do. I tried a 12 step group the other day, but when they counted the steps, starting at 1, I knew it wasn't for me. Then I tried to quit cold turkey, managed to stop just long enough to get in a couple of games of Quake, then it was back to the DOM. Please, I've got to know, has anyone out there beaten this yet?......... when I know everything, will my brain stop hurting so much when I code?
warjournal Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Insane since: Aug 2000	posted 09-26-2002 05:29 I've been a coder since I was 12 and got my first computer. It was a TRS-80. All my friends had a C-64, but not me. I would literally disappear into my own little realm during the weekends. I wrote text adventures, mostly. I was creating my own worlds with my own rules. I was a god in my own right. In school, they wouldn't let me take computer classes. Well, they did, but they were independent study. I guess my reputation preceded me for some reason. I used to piss-off the instructor by writing lateral code. You know, code that looked like it wouldn't work, but did anyways. Man, he used to get so mad. Then I got mself a woman and started a family. That pretty much put an end to my hardcore days.
Dracusis Maniac (V) Inmate From: Brisbane, Australia Insane since: Apr 2001	posted 09-26-2002 05:29 Beaten it? You don't beat it. You just conform, then you end up at an asylum.... much like this one really. Welcome to the club
lallous Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Lebanon Insane since: May 2001	posted 09-26-2002 10:30 If you continue like that you'ld probably develop a physical problem or a disease... so unwillingly these last two will force you to change your lifestyle.

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norm
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: [s]underwater[/s] under-snow in Juneau
Insane since: Sep 2002

posted 09-26-2002 04:38

Ok, I'm not shy. I'll go first.

Hi, my name's Norm and I've been a compulsive coder for....well, I've kinda lost track of time. It's easy to do that sitting in front of the glowing screen. I used to have a Life. But now I can barely bring myself to stop long enough to eat, or to shower. Sometimes I can fall asleep, but then the dreams come; conditionals, classes and methods everywhere. Occasionally there will be people in my dreams, but I usually end up putting them into an array and accessing them with a for-loop. My significant other has left me, and my dog just growls at me now. I don't know what to do. I tried a 12 step group the other day, but when they counted the steps, starting at 1, I knew it wasn't for me. Then I tried to quit cold turkey, managed to stop just long enough to get in a couple of games of Quake, then it was back to the DOM.

Please, I've got to know, has anyone out there beaten this yet?.........

when I know everything, will my brain
stop hurting so much when I code?

warjournal
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From:
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted 09-26-2002 05:29

I've been a coder since I was 12 and got my first computer. It was a TRS-80. All my friends had a C-64, but not me.

I would literally disappear into my own little realm during the weekends. I wrote text adventures, mostly. I was creating my own worlds with my own rules. I was a god in my own right. In school, they wouldn't let me take computer classes. Well, they did, but they were independent study. I guess my reputation preceded me for some reason. I used to piss-off the instructor by writing lateral code. You know, code that looked like it wouldn't work, but did anyways. Man, he used to get so mad.

Then I got mself a woman and started a family. That pretty much put an end to my hardcore days.

Dracusis
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Brisbane, Australia
Insane since: Apr 2001

posted 09-26-2002 05:29

Beaten it?

You don't beat it. You just conform, then you end up at an asylum.... much like this one really. Welcome to the club

lallous
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Lebanon
Insane since: May 2001

posted 09-26-2002 10:30

If you continue like that you'ld probably develop a physical problem or a disease...
so unwillingly these last two will force you to change your lifestyle.