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Do Developers have a Life?   [Edit]

Survey period: 10 May 2004 to 16 May 2004

Usually it’s thought that a programmer has no social life. Is this reality? (suggested by Mubashir Raza Ali Khan Balouch)

OptionVotes% 
I have an excellent social life36220.62
I have an OK social life62735.71
I have a pretty poor social life45726.03
I have no life. None.31017.65



 
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NormDroid12-May-04 1:15
professionalNormDroid12-May-04 1:15 
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Aaron Eldreth12-May-04 3:18
Aaron Eldreth12-May-04 3:18 
Generalnorm-"DOT_NET"? Pin
devvvy12-May-04 4:50
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NormDroid12-May-04 21:09
professionalNormDroid12-May-04 21:09 
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devvvy13-May-04 2:13
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Colin Angus Mackay13-May-04 1:16
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Aaron Eldreth13-May-04 16:29
Aaron Eldreth13-May-04 16:29 
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Colin Angus Mackay13-May-04 23:51
Colin Angus Mackay13-May-04 23:51 
Aaron Eldreth wrote:
it was an unusual occurance to look up my b-day in my bio.

Not really, you made an age related comment (Saying you were 15 and that maybe you should get married later in life) so I just looked up your bio so I could make a comment of the number of days left until a point "later in your life" that you could get married. Actually, I don't know the age that you can get married in your area, but in Scotland it is 16.

Aaron Eldreth wrote:
What condition do you have?

I have a condition known as Transposition of the Great Vessles. What is means is that the plumbing in the heart is shot. In a normal person blood travels round the body in a figure-8 circuit. Heart to Lungs to Heart to Body to Heart. However when I was born I had two parallel figure O circuits. Heart to Lungs to Heart. Heart to Body to Heart. So you can see how that is "incompatible with life"

Anyway, a newborn is too small to undergo the corrective surgery so what they do is punch a hole in the heart which at least allows oxygen (if not efficiently) to get round the body. Also, my parents were told that on no account was I to cry or become distressed as this would place extra strain on the heart which wasn't capable of handling the extra load. At 6 months the main corrective surgery takes place. I am also taking a drug called an ACE Inhibitor which reduces blood pressure. The reson for this is that the plumbing in the heart normally has a low pressure part (the circuit round the lungs) and a high pressure part (the circuit round the body) but in my case they are the opposite way round.

Anyway, If you have any other questions I'm happy to answer them.


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Aaron Eldreth14-May-04 15:46
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Colin Angus Mackay15-May-04 0:03
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Aaron Eldreth15-May-04 2:29
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Nitron14-May-04 8:40
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Aaron Eldreth14-May-04 15:50
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Colin Angus Mackay15-May-04 0:07
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Aaron Eldreth15-May-04 2:32
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Colin Angus Mackay15-May-04 4:56
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Aaron Eldreth15-May-04 9:27
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Aaron Eldreth15-May-04 10:05
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Nitron15-May-04 3:42
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Aaron Eldreth15-May-04 9:18
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WillemM11-May-04 4:22
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devvvy11-May-04 4:41
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Uwe Keim11-May-04 7:16
sitebuilderUwe Keim11-May-04 7:16 
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devvvy11-May-04 14:28
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