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Techies Law

Techies Law is a definition coined by Strictly-Software.com to describe a Murphies Law type scenario related to software development.

The law states that:

If you have spent considerable time trying to resolve a bug in your code, a technical problem or any other such computer related issue and you finally resort to asking for help from a colleague or support team member. You can be rest assured that when you go to show that person the problem in action it has miraculously resolved itself all by itself OR you will immediately spot the cause of the problem.

You are then derided for either being a numpty and / or wasting their precious time for no reason.
I just experienced Techies Law in action. After spending hours trying to debug some code I reluctantly called our lead developer over to help me but as soon as he arrived at my desk I immediately realised what the bug was. He called me a numpty.

I am going to utilise Techies Law by spending a third of the time I usually spend bug fixing before asking for help.

I am going to pray to the God of Geekdom that Techies Law will enact itself and fix my network connection for me by calling someone else over to have a look at the problem.
by MonkeyMagix October 25, 2011
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Techno Freak

A newly arising social class in high school and collage. This social class includes the people that are living Watch Dogs for real. If you need somthng hacked or messed with they are your guy.
Have you seen the new guy he is a real Techno Freak
by TheCartographer September 30, 2014
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he made so many people happy, and he is so cool :

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Hey Freddie, I had to use the tile technique today with this sweet bootie woman. Did you know that hallway has 107 rows of tiles on it
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Baby-teching

Attempting to carry out complex technical (generally computer-related) task whilst holding a baby.
Walter: Randy, have you integrated your custom log file rotation scheme into OS X yet?
Randy: Yes Walter, configuring OS X's internal periodic tasks is so easy I could baby-tech it.
Walter: Baby-teching, at your age? Way to go!
by Mikaoj September 27, 2011
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