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I have two kids, and my coding time is suffering. How the heck did you code while up with your kid at 3am? What was the kid doing??
by roryisok 10y ago
I have two kids, and my coding time is suffering. How the heck did you code while up with your kid at 3am? What was the kid doing??
- xrd 10y agoThe kid was sleeping on my chest. I call it the one handed editor for this reason: http://blog.teddyhyde.com/2013/04/03/teddy-hyde-the-no-compromise-extensible-one-handed-jekyll-blog-editor-for-android http://blog.teddyhyde.com/2013/04/03/teddy-hyde-the-no-compr...
- devdad 10y agoI was home three days a week with our youngest while starting a consultancy, and I got pretty much all my coding done with him sleeping on my chest, me crouched over him in the couch typing away on my MBP :) Clients had no idea how delicately I was hitting the keys when writing their code. Deadlines could be missed if he didn't sleep as expected. As soon as he woke up it was back to being a full time dad. I like to believe that I'm way more productive now since I've become a father - being a parent that's also part of the workforce requires both discipline and creativity.
- xrd 10y agoI'm still somewhat amazed I was able to do this but necessity is the mother of innovation. Perhaps a corollary is that mothers birth infants that really remind you of the necessity to code.
- smustin 10y agoI didn't code while taking care of my kid. My kid has childcare during the day! People love to assume that women are all just staying home watching their kids all day...
- CaveTech 10y agoWho are you even replying to? No one assumed anything about you and jump in anyways with a negative spin.
- eloff 10y agoMost people probably assumed the posters are male. More programmer dads out there than programmer moms. You seem to be a little defensive?
- roryisok 10y agoThe only assumption I made is that childcare is not available at 3am