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Code Rage 

The sate of mind unique to programmers who have an inexplicable bug.
The symptoms:
One may spot a programmer experiencing code rage by the rictus of contorted disgust on their pallid, cater-pocked face, bloodshot eyes reflecting the hellish glare of the monitor.
Code ragees are not rational beings, and are liable to display acts of egregious cruelty and barbarism to those over whom they have dominion.
That is to say, insects and risible fantasy characters from Risk.

The cure:
i) The bug is located and neutered. An inflatedly jubilant sense of one's computational prowess in the face of seemingly irrepugnable difficulty finally gives way to nirvana.
ii) In the absence of a solution, eventually a sense of resigned calmness settles uneasily on the over-burdened shoulders of the poor wretch. Time is a great healer, but the programmer will never be quite the same again. There is a crushing realization that in the epic battle between will-power and won't-power, incompetence won the day.
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Code Rage 

An event of coding frantically without distraction in order to meet a deadline or please impatient clients in a short period of time.
Developer 1: "This project is due at the end of the day and it's already noon."

Developer 2: "Code Rage?"

Developer: "Code Rage!"
Code Rage by mronetwo September 26, 2013

rage code 

Furiously programming out of anger due to being ignored, rejected, or dumped by a girl, or for simply having made a dumbass mistake earlier in the day. Usually leads to something amazing.
(friday afternoon)
Friend: Yo waddup, any plans for tonight?
Rage coder: nah, just got rejected by a Joanna. hurts. (opens a beer, turns on computer)
Friend: Aw sorry man, forget her. You wanna hit up some bars then?
Rage coder: no, i'm gonna rage code and make the next Facebook

(monday morning)
Friend: oh shit dude, you alright? you look like you haven't slept/eaten/showered in three days!
Rage coder: yeah i just launched my new site two hours ago. I got half a million views and just got a call from Andreessen Horowitz, looking to invest.
rage code by gunit2 October 20, 2013
The fury which shoots pain from behind your right eyeball through your entire cerebrum, shorting-out all higher functions and leaving one to rely on the "lizard brain" reflexes, like the fight or flight instinct. Not all cerebral-visual anger-pains fall into the category of CodeRage, so diagnosis is made based on the situation which elicits the symptoms. Only the logic-numbing frustration of computer coding malfunctions instigate this particular agony. Treatment involves avoiding light from computer monitors and anger management therapy. In some cases, the patient and his or her computer may need therapy to overcome their differences. In any case, it isn't the codes fault. You probably forgot some tiny punctuation mark, somewhere.
I was having a nerdtastic day, when my CSS ate my Javascript and I punched my monitor from a painspasm of CodeRage.
CodeRage by TwistedNoggin January 10, 2019