Thread: what's your worst programming injury?

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    what's your worst programming injury?

    last night i fell asleep at the computer and banged my head on the keyboard . . . lol

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    when i was programming and the mob came and packed me up in a full body sized chello-case and dropped me into the East River. That was quite an injury.

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    I cut off the very tip of my left index finger builder a computer desk for my wife (does that count?). Freaking table saw just wanted the wood more than I did I guess.

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    Well, I dereferenced a NULL pointer one time...that kind of hurt. But if you mean physical then it woud have to be paper cuts. Ouchie!

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    My best code is written with the delete key.

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    Once I ran to my comp cause my internet was about to get disconnected in 4 secs.......(I was downloading somethinng for the last 2 1/2 hrs)..........but there was a door in between me and the door.........that stupid doorknob hit my wrist so hard that I had a bruise there for 4-5 weeks.......
    oh i'm sorry! i didn;t realize my fist was rushing to meet ur face!

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    uhh.... one of those screen-sweeper things fell off my monitor and onto my hand. while programming.

    computers in general:
    i was taking apart an old tandy 1000 ex, which tried to squeeze everything together tight. i touched the power supply coil trying to pick it up.
    because i was too poor to afford a case, i put all my computer stuff on a table (actually, it was the old case, lay'd horizontally, close to the floor so i would kick it every so often.) i tried to switch a jumper and touched a few capasitors together with my screwdriver. didn't damage my motherboard (much).
    i've sliced my hand on circuit boards. not badly, though.

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    by the way....I did not get to my computer....and I had to download it all over again...............
    oh i'm sorry! i didn;t realize my fist was rushing to meet ur face!

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    I read this thread...
    "There's always another way"
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    I hurt my foot kicking it.

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    I leant back on my chair to look at my code at a distance (I dunno why ) and I thought there was another chair behind me to hold onto, but there wasn't...CRACK!

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    I kicked my desk and my huge 21" monitor [with boiling cup of coffee atop] fell on my lap.

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    I was soldering a PCB, and knocked the soldering iron off the desk. Caught it without thinking. 10 years ago & you can still see the scar!

    (I know it's not programming, but it still bl**dy hurt!).
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    yeah hardware sucks.

    especially the back of various cards [motherboards, graphics cards]
    you put your hand in and the little metal solder bumps rip the skin off it.

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    IBS from sitting hunched over....

    piles from not going to the lavvie........
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    Beer belly from sitting still 16h a day. Damaged right hand index finger from mouse clicking to much.

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