Crazy keyboard pounder in next cubicle, part 2 3

[pgmr777]

It would not have been a fair fight, we were asleep.
I think I am slowly becoming aware of the underlying reasons for the obsessive typist.
Somewhere long ago in her brain a connection was made between typing and the appearance of working. Typing = working, if you're not typing you're not working..?
Old mainframe programmer mentality? I learned long ago to reuse code and objects as much as possible so I have to type as little as possible. Also find something similar you have already done, copy and modify it. She seems to do everything from scratch.

 

[hjgoldstein]

Our idea of resolving the cold war issue was: declare war on the West and US and surrender right away

Reminds me of the apocryphal (?) story of an Israeli Cabinet meeting in the early 1970s

The argument was that if the country declares war on the USA at 7am, by lunchtime they are beaten and get the benefits of economic/military/humanitarian aid from the largesse of the victorious American government.

The plan was scrapped when the defence minister asked..."What if we win?"

Aspiring to mediocrity since 1957

 

[kwbMitel]

@ hjgoldstein

Based on your timeframe (1970's) I think you've been led astray.

Note the synopsis for the 1959 movie "The Mouse That Roared" starring Peter Sellers

An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.

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[kwbMitel]

@ hjgoldstein - my bad, I forgot that you used the word apocryphal.

Consider my earlier post to be a solid rebuttal to that story.

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[MikeHalloran]

WRT the printing, I'm not in a position to be critical.

I used to write a fair amount of code.
I could not properly review it in context on a screen.
So I would print out an entire project's code on the back of fanfold greenbar, and bind it.
During the binding process, I would look over the code, marking any odd things that came to mind.
Then I'd mentally walk through the code on the paper copy,
and fix or adjust or improve it.
Then I'd make the corrections, shred the bound copy,
and start the process again.

I was going through a box of greenbar most every week.
Another operation that bought printers for resale as part of their systems used me to test potential new printer models.

Unlike you, for most of that time, I was not in a cubicle farm, but alone in a mezzanine office behind a CNC punch press. Whatever noise I made could not be heard above the racket from the punch press. I found the press annoying at first, but eventually I came to think of it as the sound of money coming in, so I made peace with it.

I couldn't make peace with typing screenshots...