Happy_Dude Posted April 17, 2004 Share Posted April 17, 2004 Ever had a problem that had you so baffled that your nice hot cup of joe turned ice cold while you where coding ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted April 17, 2004 Share Posted April 17, 2004 yes. usually these turn out to be the most embarassing errors, like this one (not a coding problem, though): last night i was working on a self-made f16 cartridge (put it together on a breadboard). well. that beast simply didn't want to work. i checked all the connections, checked my schematic i'd drawn, everything was correct. so finally i thought that one of the parts must be defect. so i removed an inverter, looked at it a bit more close and...hmm...7474...huh ?...errr...that's not an inverter, that's a d-flipflop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted April 17, 2004 Share Posted April 17, 2004 Heck, that even happens on the mundane repetitive tasks...me being a hunt'n'peck typist and all. My coffee went flat just typing this, for example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy_Dude Posted April 17, 2004 Author Share Posted April 17, 2004 Heck, that even happens on the mundane repetitive tasks...me being a hunt'n'peck typist and all. My coffee went flat just typing this, for example LMAO. A good laugh and a new cup of coffee and I'm ready to go In about an hour I'll give up again and be back here complaining about my next cold cup yes. usually these turn out to be the most embarassing errors Indeed. My current problem is soooo damn simple on paper. But just try to turn it into 6502 and it becomes rocket science Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric_ruck Posted April 17, 2004 Share Posted April 17, 2004 Doesn't even have to be a problem. I'm updating an app I haven't touched in almost 2 years, putting in some stuff I didn't have time to do back then. Goes like this... Get up Stretch Make Coffee Pour Coffee In Insulated Cup Take To Keyboard Start Coding 90 Minutes Later Remember Cold Coffee or more like 90 Minutes Later Knock Over Forgotten Cup Of Cold Coffee Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 cold , hot , whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susuwatari Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 Try balancing a checkbook. No matter how careful I try, there's always an error of $0.01 somewhere. Once I lost $100 from my balance sheet and I still don't know how I missed that one. Every deposit and checks were accounted for but my bank said I had $100 more than what I thought I should have. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tantone56 Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 ill sit at the computer and type away all day on this website and not know what time it is. So excuse me but I have to go cause my relatives should be coming over for an easter dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 No, I prefer tea. But my tea often gets, uhm... quite strong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 Tea is illegal here in the States...but early programmers used it quite often j/k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 i have an extra large cup it holds twice as much as an average coffee cup and i get through a lot of coffee when i'm programming or working on websites the only problem is that after all that caffeine i get just a little hyper and talk a lot faster and start joining all my sentences together because i don't stop talking and i'll keep going and going until i start drooling and pass out [thud!] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 Yikes! Here...have some tea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikM Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 You know you've been programming the 2600 too long when you see a post about TEA and start thinking "Transfer E to A? There's no E register...?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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