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You know when you demo your new feature to a manager, it suddenly stops working, goes into 'Management Mode' as I have heard it referred to. Well, there is another 'Mode' one often sees. Nerd Mode.
This is when a colleague is demonstrating something to you and feels the need to type as quickly as possible, to change windows as fast as he can, imitating every hacker you see in films, and evidently trying to convince you they are some kind of whizz.
And of course when they are working on their own they behave normally.
It is very odd behaviour, displays immense insecurity.
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There is a guy on my team, right now, that is just like that. What I find to be funny AF, is when he is going so fast that he can't actually do anything correctly (typing, navigation), and he is forced to slow down. He gets so flustered. 
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Hahaha! Yeah, they go into a kind of frenzy, making so many mistakes, it really is quite odd!
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Yeah, I recognize this. Especially when I ask colleagues to explain why it doesn't work, what he did to fix the problem so that I can handle similar situations myself next time, and they turn me down: It works now, just go ahead!
I get even more frustrated when I have the fifth request from the same person about the same problem, having four times spent great effort in explaining slowly and clearly what he/she is doing wrong, and they just ignore it: Just make it work for me! I write several pointed lists of why and how, but even half a screenful is too much: Why can't you highlight what I should do so I don't have to read these useless explanations?? .. and this comes not from end users, but from professionals, who ought to know the explanation but simply doesn't care to. Spending time on understanding can negatively affect their code lines per day ratio ...
But then: I have been teaching courses to customers where I have ended up in situations where I've had to say "Just a few seconds, please - you don't have to worry about these details", and then hurried on to set up the correct configuration, or whatever is required to go on. There may be students insisting that they will know all the advanced details from day one, and try to follow me even though I said they shouldn't be concerned (at this stage) about it, getting crossed when I do not explain the things I am doing. But that's what I told them.
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Because it never compiles[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I once read that C is named after Chuck Norris.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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It is a little-known fact that I just made up that Chuck Norris constructed the first nunchucks.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Iron Man has to use C because he has a particular aversion to Rust.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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You mean he's not stainless?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You're probably thinking of Steel Man (who's actually made out of a high-carbon, chrome-molybdenum steel as it happens).
So, no, neither of them can leave without a stain upon their character.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Batman related jokes always remind me of this[^].
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Like I said, really, really bad jokes.
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On the weekends they are showing the old Adam West Batman series and he already had a mobile batcomputer in the batmobile. What attention to detail, because C was not invented yet when he built and programmed that thing.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I think Alfred did all the "heavy lifting".
Robin chipped in with some VB.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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he had a rocket powered car too,
back then they didn't have global warming greenerds either.
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the goat in your machine wrote: back then they didn't have global warming greenerds either.
Back then they still had their ways to deal with them: BANG! POW!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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the goat in your machine wrote: global warming greenerds either.
Or worries about fuel consumption or pollution.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Plus, ya know, black text on a black background...
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With a little black lamp that lights up black to let you know you've done it?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Didn't he do everything with .bat files?
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You're confusing him with me. An easy mistake to make.
(Maybe even one of the classic blunders.)
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my man will not eat pot roast, any mashed potatoes other than the box kind make him complain, and he hates gravy.
He would live off of corn dogs and macaroni and cheese if i let him.
I'm making steak and garlic red mashed potatoes and he can suck it up.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Good for him.
I can stand neither pot roast nor gravy.
Steak is good and you should expect me to make a Devil's Tower with my mashed potatoes before I eat them.
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not liking pot roast is borderline uncivilized. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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At least it's a step up from creamed chipped barf on toast. Or tuna noodle casserole. Blech.
The only way I found I could eat pot roast was when my mother would grind up the leftovers and mix it with mayo for sandwiches.
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