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eclipse shortcuts

Thursday, August 12th, 2010 | IDE, Java, Quirks | 2 Comments

Kids, after a hard day’s labour I Crtl-Alt-S’ed myself into the team sync perspective to commit my stuff. After doing so this conversation happened in our team room today:

What was the shortcut for getting back to the Java perspective again?
Hmm, dunno, hit Ctrl-Shift-L
What’s that?
That’s the shortcut for the shortcuts.

True Story.

P.S. Technically Ctrl-Alt-S doesn’t mean “switch to the team sync perspective” but “sync with repo” implicating a switch to the team sync perspective.
P.P.S. Don’t tell me to use Ctrl-Shift-F8 – first, it’s not “switch to Java perspective” and second that’s the dumbest non-accessible shortcut ever. I always reassign it to Ctrl-Tab thus being far more convenient IMHO.
P.P.P.S. Yes, I know you can assign a shortcut to the not bound by default Java perspective.
P.P.P.P.S. If you are still reading this you didn’t get the post’s joke. It’s not about the Java perspective at all.

Tags: eclipse, java, shortcuts

New word(s): 9 terms for being sick

Friday, January 1st, 2010 | Language, Quirks, Vocabulary | 1 Comment

What’s a better way to celebrate new year’s eve than attending your bro’s wedding (congratz again, Tim and Thilo), having a hip hop battle where you ruin your wedding suit’s trousers and discussing the vast variety of words for “throwing up” with an English army man. A great night indeed!

I was pretty proud I already knew 7 words – impressing the crowd, embarrassing me performing the appropriate gestures with my new friend from the UK to each way. Jo taught me one more, to honk. My wife then gave me the last one, which I first didn’t take as a way to do it but more as a descriptive term – but people really say something like “to be sick on the floor”.

Okay, enough of an introduction, here is my list of words for being sick:

1. throw up – the well known term
2. vomit – slightly informal
3. puke – colloquial

The “sound” descriptive ones (my favourites!):

4. barf – a big shot straight forward
5. hurl – like a barf, but done in an 120°+ horizontal angle
6. huee – the sound you make just before you ralph! (dont know the spelling though)
7. ralph – the sound you make after a few huees!

New since last night:

8. honk – new word from Jo, I am sorry I forgot the appropriate occasion for this one
9. be sick – new word from Liz

Impressive, right? Don’t take me wrong, I am not specially attached to this topic, it’s just a fun thing to discuss at a late night party with a few drunkards. Dictionaries even provide a few more terms, but that’s kinda like cheating. Consider giving it a try next time you are at a party with a few friends that don’t mind talking about, well, being sick

Tags: fun, party, wedding

Geek joke

Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | Language, Misc, Quirks | 1 Comment

Today somebody posted a nice geek joke in our team chat, it seems to be quite common, but nevertheless it was new to me:

Why do programmers always confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.

If you dont get it, read the Mathematical jokes Wikipedia article for an explanation. But I assume that people who dont get it right away wont find it funny even after reading the explanation. Revenga of the nerds! Merry Christmas

Tags: geek, joke, revenge

Harddrive cleanup: returned from oblivion

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | Language, Misc, Quirks | No Comments

OMG TEH SPAIDER WUZ THIS BIG!!11!!!!

So funny! Cleaning up my hard drive I found this lolcat … scary shit indeed!
For more of them have a look at my favourite lolcatz or visit icanhascheezburger!

Tags: lolcat

New word: placeholder

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | Language, Quirks, Vocabulary | No Comments

I was pretty astonished finding out that this false friend is none.

If you are German, think for yourself whether you would have guessed that “placeholder” is indeed the correct translation of “Platzhalter“.

Tags: false friend

New word: scurvy

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | Language, Quirks, Vocabulary | No Comments

I came across this one watching “The IT Crowd” (hilarious, don’t miss out on it even if you are only remotely connected to an IT job) – Jen is babbling about herself being the employee of the month, when Roy asks Moss about a former employee of the month, Richmond:

Roy: What ever happend to Richmond?
Moss: He got scurvy! (looking aghast)
(laughter…)

Well, I have to admit that I didn’t get the joke, maybe because I am not a native speaker … is scruvy used for kids only? Or is it a word used in a specific situation? Whatever, I just learned a new word … even if it just for my passive vocabulary due to not fully understanding the meaning.

New quirk: plural of smiley

Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | Language, Quirks | No Comments

Is it smilies or smileys? Guess first before reading this post at Leo.