Are the OCD the ones that do not like 'hot water heater' ?
Most homes need to heat the water to make hot water. I bet in some parts of the world you need to heat the cold water so it will not freeze and turn to ice. Then you would have a cold water heater.
Why would I want to? :-) I've been quite successful in many ways, I was a good software engineer, I have a happy home with lovely children and a loving wife. The OCD[ishness] is quite fun in a way.
Yeah ok rainman.
They don't like anything, they concentrate on trivia and need to grow up.
Indeed, the word "hot" is being specific.
...and you tend not to leave your house unlocked or lock yourself out.
(You might have to drive home when you realise you touched the door handle with your right hand but not your left hand too.)
I saw a very amusing article about OCD folk going crazy with the virus. Instead of washing their hands 3 times an hour, it's now 50 times an hour, so no free time, and no skin left.
We never lock the house.
No, I don't think I follow that one! :-)
While I am somewhat pedantic about the use of language etc. (which, in a different context, helped with my Software Engineering career) I am rather more careless/carefree about everyday life. The only place where my OCD[ish] self shows much is in a moderately well organised garage and study.
WTF?
Are you as bad as James May with spanners?
That's because you don't actually have OCD, which is quite a nasty condition. Someone who does have it would find themself doing stuff like that.
Just a bit fussy. I'm the same!
They call anything a condition nowadays. Basically they're just stupid. Same goes for "dyslexia".
I heard somewhere that with OCD its usually an odd number.
Is that difficult to understand? While I think we have locked the house up a couple of times in the twenty years or more that we have lived here I don't think we have ever locked up in the last ten or even fifteen years.
Hmm? My garage isn't that clean! :-)
A touch of OCD helps in software.
My care with language and the handling of logic is a bit pedantic. However what passes for my study looks like a rat midden. You have to know what's important and what isn't.
Gods, I really should clean this mess up. Maybe tomorrow. If it snows.
I'd call that precision. OCD is when you obsess over the unimportant.
There's a crossover when you restructure working code because it looks sloppy. If you want to start a fight with coders as if there is a space between 'if' and the paren, whether the curly bracket goes on the same line as the conditional, and how many spaces should be used for indentation.
Python is the ultimate OCD language. Spaces matter. Even though it may look the same in an editor if one line has a tab that displays as four spaces and the next actually has four spaces it isn't going to run.
Strange folk. As long as it looks neat it's fine. You may notice I always put two spaces between sentences. It makes it clearer, but I never pick people up on not doing it.
Is that just because it doesn't like the tab character? Or does the number of spaces change the meaning of the code?
Way back aroung 55 years ago I took a semester of typing in school using the old manual typewriters. We were told to put two spaces after the period when typing. That has carried over with me all this time. I think on the computers we are only suppose to use one space, but I am not sure.
It was 58 years ago for me but same rule. Not sure what they teach now but I often here is one space. I think the wider space looks better and is easier to follow with the eye.
Paul
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