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honey the codewitch wrote: I have to be very careful to keep my mood up and not spoil my morning and thus my day, because if I'm not I'll think about it and fret over it even if I'm not actively working on it.
Yup - there are times when there are several projects at work, each with their unique set of problems, and I wake up not wanting to get up because as soon as my brain starts working on one problem in my head, another part of my brain starts to scream for attention on the other problem. Multiply that by 10 problems, and there's a cacophony in my head.
The only solution I found is to write them all down (writing them down actually helps remove them from my head) and then pick one, and only one, to work on until it's done, and literally (vocally) tell the others "I will get to you soon." As bizarre as that sounds, it actually works for me.
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Yes it's a very frustrating situation. My salvation is having a side project that I can work on and actually make some progress on. Most of the time 🤭
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I keep running notes and leave myself comment markers in the code for where I'm having trouble. It helps. Asana is a good app too - you can make tasks and sub tasks and more and more subtasks, leave notes everywhere (so be careful not to lose them), and organize them by tags and into projects. You can view your tasks in many ways. I like it for personal work as well as team work, but I still keep a notepad open on my desktop called current or running notes.
Sometimes just cleaning up and adding comments throughout helps with debugging and is a bit of a break without being an actual break.
Best of luck!
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Reading it closely to make good comments >> wait what??
Reading what is written, not what I think I wrote.
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Well I hope you have a lot of "ah-HA!" moments soon! It sounds like you need some.
Cheers!
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I wake up in the middle of the night trying to solve what seems like intractable problems and can't get back to sleep.
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April 13, Low-Code/No-Code Developer Day 2022?
No doubt a cleverly masked way for LC/NC providers to pitch their wares to we the unsuspecting.
Just think, the worlds greatest fortunes to be made with the click of a mouse button. Excuse me, the click of a trackball button. The way of the future! 
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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twelve days late?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Being in the slow group, it took me a couple of minutes to figure out what you meant. 
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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theoldfool wrote: the click of a mouse button. Excuse me, the click of a trackball button. The way of the future!
Nah ... it's tap or nothing, mouses are so last Tuesday ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Is that steak and kidney pie I see on your screen? 
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Haven't had one of them this year, but it's only early. I have to make them so the snake is on one side and the pygmy is on the other as Herself won't eat the kidneys if she sees them.
I do like a good Snake and Pygmy Pie with a long simmer in the slow cooker so the meat just melts in your mouth before it goes anywhere near the pastry. 
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My Grandma (from Wales) made a great snake and pygmy pie. When she cooked the pygmy's, my uncle would say "Nelly's cooking the pi$$ out of them". Great stuff and she made a mean Eccles (sp?)cake. Wonderful woman.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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The problem with kidneys is sheep only have two each ... 
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I love them too but I call it Snake and Echidna Pie.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Feathers players disheartened (8)
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Downcast ? I like it 
Feathers = Down
Players = Cast
Disheartened = Downcast
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 6-Jan-22 5:30am.
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Is the right answer! You are up tomorrow - care to explain for the others? 
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Done
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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In school I did learn German for three years. That was long ago. When I look something up in Wikipedia, I frequently check what is written in other Wikipedia-languages on the subject, in all the languages I more or less master (the differences are sometimes surprisingly large!). German I consider to be in the "less" group, yet that is one of the alternatives I every now and then check up.
And then I come across e.g. this 'Kategorie:Geschicklichkeitsspiel[^]. Try to read it out loudly, without any practicing in advance: Geschicklichkeitsspiel. There is even a reference to Computergeschicklichkeitsspiele.
I don't want to offend native German speakers, but in such cases I feel that I am spelling my way through the German text, rather reading it word by word!
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Luckily the Dutch version of that word does not exist in Wikipedia!
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Not a big difference here  
Ferdighetsspill
Dataferdighetsspill
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trønderen wrote: Try to read it out loudly, without any practicing in advance
No problem- I promise not to practice. 
It clearly is not a language for those among us who can only communicate with grunts and max. two syllable words. And you can have real fun with the modern gender idiocy. Reich mir mal die Salzstreuerin.
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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Is my language (Dutch) too Germanic to understand your point?
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Sander Rossel wrote: Is my language (Dutch) too Germanic to understand your point?
Most likely. Even though I had a Dutch father-in-law for quite a few years, I never learned his language, but his family seemed to treat German as not that different from the most crazy Dutch dialects ...
In Norway, language counsellors frequently advise us to split up such extreme agglutinations with hyphens, to ease reading, e.g. writing Computer-Geschicklichkeits-Spiel-Kategorie rather than Computergeschicklichkeitsspielkategorie. The more academic people around here are, the more they think that helping the reader in such ways is sort of childish, disrespecting the intellectual capabilities of the reader. Germans, who have lived with such constructions since their day of birth, seem to manage well without the the hyphens. (Although in the actual category description, they have managed to sneak in a hyphen in 'Kategorie:Computer-Geschicklichkeitsspiel'!)
Another memory, not 'true German', but the style is quite is rather 'German inspired': In my student days, we had a prime minister named Gro Harlem Brundtland, who later made it big internationally and became the leader of the UN World Health Organization for a few years. Her speeches really required concentration to follow. A friend of mine taped a couple of them, for the purpose of analyzing the sentence structure, and found a couple cases where Mrs. Brundtland went down into a five levels nesting of bi-sentences within bi-sentences - but never failing to come out correctly before the full stop! (after a final German-style 'pop verb stack' ...) In Norwegian, that is a remarkable feat. In German, I guess it is more at the level of informal cocktail party small talk
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