What real life bad habits has programming given you?
Marco points out this brilliant thread on Stack Overflow. Here’s some choice chunks:
I temporize way too much in conversation. Things that anyone else would say as fact, I will still throw a “probably” or “perhaps” on, because I know there could always be that one edge case where a meteor strikes my neighborhood and I wouldn’t after all be able to make it out that day to Thanksgiving dinner.
Check out the later pages, too.
I throw my important documents into a shoebox instead of sorting them. I figure that I so rarely read from that cache compared to how often I write to it that it’s overall cheaper to have expensive reads and really fast writes.
