Usefulness of a monitor doesn't keep going up as the monitor size increases. 10,000x10,000 characters isn't going to be very easy to use. What's the sweet spot? Maybe 200x200 or so? I'm sort of with you on this though. I don't understand why people still write code for an 80x25 terminal. My terminal starts out 80x25 but if I start writing long lines I just maximize it. Same can apply to using { on a separate line. I just don't find it any more readable. The block is already delineated so it's just extra typing, extra lines used, extra keys to navigate rows, etc... I just don't like it. Though I do put it on separate lines for function and class definitions, so it's probably something like the OCD 23yrold is talking about.

Too many people crushing up the parenthesis to the keyword these days. What is wrong with you people?!

Re-railment time please Let's not make this about religion politics coding conventions

My usual screen layout for web development is this:

• left monitor - full-screen web browser

• right monitor - two terminals and one or two gvims

If everything is written for 80x25 (or 80x{anything}), this works nicely - my terminal is configured so that two 80-character windows fit exactly.

• "u r", "im"

• posting in the wrong language

• answering posts in a wrong language in the same language

• lack of capitalization and punctuation

• People who think a preposition is something you must never end a sentence with, and make it something to obsess about, when really it is not something the English language has a rule against - it is Latin where this notion comes from.

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^ This.

And what's even worse is that not only does a large part of my fellow humans believe in homeopathy and even tries to sell it to me as medicine, they also happily confuse "homeopathic" with "made of plants", and then somehow assume that things made of plants are automatically harmless. Mentioning Heroine usually shuts them up though.

There's an annoying ad on the radio here for a product that's basically "herbal" Viagra. What annoys me about the ad is that they mention twice that "The best thing about Herbal Ignite is you're not taking a drug. It's a 100% natural product."

I even made a complaint about it to the Advertising Standards Authority, but it wasn't upheld.

How about a homeopathic baseball bat? That is, a lump of wood, soaked in water with extremely small quantities of ground baseballs dissolved in it.

Meh. A complaint about Viagra that doesn't hold up.

I like vertically aligned brackets because you can see matching pairs and spot mistakes more easily.

I detest xml with all the white space missing. Either give me something readable or use binary if those extra tabs and carriage returns cause problems.

They're not mutually exclusive.

^ This. My unscientific explanation would be that the exercise incites your body to actually turn stored and consumed calories into consumable fuel, whereas if you don't get much exercise then your body's instinctual reaction to calories will be to store them, making them not available for immediate use.

You always feel better and more energetic after exercising. Of course, somebody actually trying to push their body to its limits will likely not have much energy after a workout, but your average individual going to a gym is just trying to lose weight or not gain any.