Real coders, real code.

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Mike Schinkel — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:56:00 GMT

You found a woman that puts up with that? If so, Bravo! I wish I had. :(

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oleg@tkachenko.com (Oleg Tkachenko) — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:57:00 GMT

Nice one...

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Nick — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:18:00 GMT

nice. I'll have what your on please ;-)

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James Steele — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:59:00 GMT

I thought I was the only one. Thank God there are others!

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Denise Reis — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:22:00 GMT

Oh yes, I knew this already! I pray for the day my husband comes up from the cold, dark, stinky basement and asks for a beer and plops down in front of the TV to watch the Packers play. Heck I'd settle for a white wine spritzer and figure skating at this point! I sit with a smile on my face nodding as I listen to him excitedly rant about .Net and how he got a (whatever you call it) down to .003 seconds from its previous 3.8! I hug him and tell him I'm proud of him and he can do anything because I know that one day, that idea that's clawing and chewing its way out of his brain will make it out! Yep, I love that coder of mine!

Real coders, real code.

Mitch Rupp's .NET Blog — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:35:00 GMT

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Robert Scoble — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:38:00 GMT

I totally grok this. Great post.

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ISerializable — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:46:00 GMT

Real Geeks

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Mun — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:22:00 GMT

Superb! :-)

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Ken Robertson — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:49:00 GMT

I have my girlfriend realizes what she's getting into when we get married...

I'm there with Denise... my girlfriend has to put up with my descriptions of whatever I'm coding. I always figure I'm boring her, but she likes it. It is interesting to explain SQL databases or binary trees to her. :)

Live to Code

Ramblings of a Code Monkey — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 03:36:00 GMT

Matt Warren does a good job of describing how I've been feeling as of late. While I haven't gone so far as to get up in the middle of the night to code, it's definitely been the case lately that...

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Melissa — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:21:00 GMT

LOL! Denise that sounds *exactly* like me.

Night after night I listen to <a href="http://www.milbertus.com/">my husband</a> talk about how such and such works so much faster than his last app, and how cool .NET is, and about the next app he plans to create, and what he's going to use to create it.

I've learned to nod and smile a lot. I cheer him on too, but typically I'm not exactly sure what he's talking about. He'll sit at his computer coding away for hours on end, while the world passes him by. I'm just glad he has something that engages his mind and makes him so happy. :)

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Melissa — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:22:00 GMT

Sorry about the malformed link. I wasn't sure if you had HTML in your comments or not. :)

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carlajsarmiento — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 06:46:00 GMT

Same here Denise & Melisssa. When he was still my boyfiend, I'm jealous with his computer since I can't simply tear him away from coding. I even thought of breaking up with him because he's weird. He would even program something while driving(I heard him murmuring about a certain application), can you imagine that?
But we got married he never thought that I would really listen to him eagerly. One day he was smiling and said,"it's nice that you would listen to me about my job", (the truth is, I don't understand anything that he's talking about). I just look at him straight in the eyes and said: I love you mahal! I'll support you with whatever that would make you happy. Now I know how talented he is.

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Marauderz — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:52:00 GMT

I just hope our wives don't decide to form a Coder's Widows support group or something...

"Pry him off VS.Net now!"

Code and career

Sandspace — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:01:00 GMT

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ardent coder — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:09:00 GMT

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Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:43:00 GMT

I love my wife and family. They mean the world to me. They do. But, friday night when my wife and kids are sleeping, which is always pretty early on a friday, I sneak away to the computer and I code, code, code, and code. Saturday morning comes and I'm always very hard to get out of bed :) I just freakin' love it.

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Denise Reis — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:22:00 GMT

Hmmm... a Coder's Widows Support Group... interesting! VERY interesting!

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David Cumps — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:05:00 GMT

Actually, your girlfriend or wife is the only thing keeping you away from your code mostly.....now imagine not having one. ouch, would be bad for health and sleep :p

Lovely post!

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Matt Warren — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:49:00 GMT

The response to this post has been phenominal. Thanks everyone for the feedback.

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Bob.Yexley.Blog — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:10:00 GMT

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Guy Sofer — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:09:00 GMT

Yes, this is really the case

Our code is our Art and we have the urge to make it feasible. I code for 8 years and I still have the thrill when I find a good idea for a software solution (even if it's likely that someone had already thought about it). Usually I write these ideas in notes next to me every time an idea raises in my mind. My wife find this writing notes behavior funny - but I enjoy it. Recently, I got rid of the writing notes habits because I bought my first PocketPC - so now I write my ideas there

Beautifully said

Brian LeRoux — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:51:00 GMT

It's now 4:50am here in Vancouver. My very patient wife is asleep downstairs while I tap away unaware of anything but an abstract castle in my mind. I'm stuck. I must be tired. I pause for a quick break and peruse my aggregator. Then I read this post and suddenly castle walls just dissolve.

Brilliant writing Matt. Its nice to know I'm not alone.

Good night all. :)

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Russell Kelly — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:32:00 GMT

I am going to have my wife read this! This is just how I feel.

Thursday Night/Friday morning was a perfect example of what you are talking about. I got out of bed at 11:30pm. Worked on my project till about 1:30am and then got up at 5am to work on it for an hour or so before I had to go to work. And sleeping doesn't stop the coding, I code the project in my sleep, and I am sure I am not alone when I say I will dream in code.

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David Cumps — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:52:00 GMT

And when you wake up, the first thing that jumps in your mind is some line of code.

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Omer van Kloeten — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:07:00 GMT

If you haven't read it yet, the Tao of Programming [1] is a good read.

[1] http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

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Matt Warren — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:06:00 GMT

I haven't read that, but I have read the Tao of Piglet. I'm sure they are much the same. :-)

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The Wayward WebLog — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:23:00 GMT

So true...

curry684 — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 23:32:00 GMT

I completely recognize myself in this text. Coding is life. My girl puts up with it too, it's 2:31 AM right now over here and she's sleeping :)

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zzwzBlog — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:41:00 GMT

Nice one...

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Relationship Compatibility — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:39:54 GMT

It's late, do you know where your coder is? Really, it's a very good question. You think your spouse is sleeping next to you at night. They are not. They are awake, bleary, weary and barely lucid, secretly feeding their addiction. Yes, it is sad and depraved