What real life bad habits has programming given you?

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by socratees • 18 years ago

9 10 18 years ago

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JFred• 18 years ago

Eating too much. Exercising too little.

crazyirish• 18 years ago

sleeping during the day

dryicerx• 18 years ago

Putting ';' at end of sentences, writing 'goto' instead of 'go to'

innernode• 18 years ago

Hehe, yeah - and () after writing stop or play

tjpick• 18 years ago

All my bad habits are hidden behind a clean, stable public API.

gaius• 18 years ago

"I'll fix it later"

socratees• 18 years ago

thinking 256, 512 etc as special numbers :|

lacker• 18 years ago

I keep telling my girlfriend that cleaning up the apartment before we analyze which parts of the mess bother us most is premature optimization. Somehow she is not convinced :-/

endergen• 18 years ago

Um. Thinking mostly internally in code metaphors and then isomorphing that to a relationship conversation. Yeah, that doesn't usually work out so well for me.

MaysonL• 18 years ago

Attempting to refactor the universe.

What real life bad habits has programming given you?

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