This time around the question is: Most of us programmers have one or more sticky notes around the frame of the computer's screen. Mine has the OpenGL coordinate system drawn on it (i.e. +y goes up, -z goes yon, +x goes right), and another has the OpenGL 4x4 matrix offsets. What's on yours?
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Anonymous2005-12-28 16:24
Post-its are what old people write instructions on for how to get to the start menu.
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Anonymous2005-12-28 17:05
You really use post-its? I thought only movie programmers/hackers use it...
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Anonymous2005-12-28 17:14
No post-its. If there's a piece of information I need frequent access to then I'll memorize it. If I don't need frequent access to it then there's no point in sticking it to the monitor.
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Anonymous2005-12-28 18:18
Time for another Getting To Know Anonymous thread!
Fixed
No postits here (depending on frequency, size and utility, I use memory, file or Google), although I do have a note under my monitor on something to advertise (I'm trying to find a home for a kitty that lives in the streets, I already have one). I'm not sticking stuff on my precious Philips 107X CRT though.
>>2
You forgot the non-tech people at work, that's where they write their user names and passwords in case they forget.
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Anonymous2005-12-28 19:38
>>3
Sure. With a slightly OCD personality like mine it's good to write stuff down somewhere that discourages getting caught in "write write write edit edit edit write etc" cycles. Also I'm terrible at remembering whether OpenGL matrixes were in row major or column major format, and what the hell those meant anyhow.
I also used to have a vi cheatsheet card right next to the computer. Colour me old-fashioned for still using a perfect-bound notebook instead of a laptop in work meetings...
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Why are you editing matrices by hand? We have functions to do that for us. If we didn't, we'd write them. And by "we" I mean people who aren't idiots.
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Anonymous2005-12-29 8:38
We use Rational at work and when you check in stuff into the respository, you specify a CQ number to tell it which project/patch to check your changes under in. So I have a whole bunch of CQ numbers on post-it notes on my monitor.
Have a few stickies with dummy account and password combinations we use to test the application and database.
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Used to, man. Like four years ago. Now I can edit circles around notepad crapniks any day of the week. Comes in handy with a laptop that has "fun-sized" keys.
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Anonymous2006-01-01 0:58
Now I can edit circles around notepad crapniks any day of the week.
And lose to people who were bright enough to use an IDE.
Oh, let me guess, all those time-saving devices make a shitty programmer? Then go back to punchcards, hardcore dude.
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Anonymous2006-01-01 7:12
Clicking on shit and wading through wizards is "time saving."
After all, "gcc" is so hard to type.
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Anonymous2006-01-01 16:11 (sage)
>>12
Typing "gcc" with all the parameters is pretty fucking annoying.
>>11
Well call it a "disintegrated development environment". Open a couple of xterms side by side, cd to the project root, open vims in both of them, load up some documentation in a browser on screen 3... hack away, type :make in the command mode when done, fix errors, compile again, test. Isn't that what your fancy "F7 is for building" IDE does, too?
>>20 >>21
This is a no brainer, >>20 wins.
Eclipse wastes more time than it saves.
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Anonymous2007-12-20 2:51
WELCOME TO THE PAST, BITCHES.
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Anonymous2007-12-20 4:11
i don't use post-it notes, i wrote a simple program to keep notes for me using ndbm and a wrapper bourne shell script that makes sure the db is encrypted using gpg
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Anonymous2007-12-20 5:12
>>1 Mine has the OpenGL coordinate system drawn on it (i.e. +y goes up, -z goes yon, +x goes right)
LOL WHAT
I don't have any post-its around my monitor. Instead, I keep a Word document open with useful information that I need to refer to often. And another (encrypted) document for passwords that I'm likely to forget.
I do keep a few sheets of A4 in front of my keyboard though, for quick scribbling.
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Anonymous2007-12-20 11:01
I write notes beside my monitor digitally on this ingenious device called a second monitor. Fuck paper.
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Anonymous2007-12-20 11:22
>>31
Spiffy. Can you crumple that ingenious artefact into a ball and trash it when you're done with it? And I presume it is cheaper than the notes, right-o?
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Anonymous2007-12-20 12:51
>>32
You write stuff on post-its just because you like crumpling them later?
i have a postit on my monitor with a giant letter 'K' on it. just in case i forget what comes between 'J' and 'L'. it saved my ass on more than one occasion.
The idea behind variables and functions the next step is to learn the tools Forget Pascal and go for C Otherwise choose something like VB Net or Python straight away is a good alternative Also I am also not a good one So sayeth the Sussman shoved a cudder is ergo he had never touched.
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