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Something I noticed (having worked as both a non-programmer and programmer) that hangovers affect me much worse as a programmer than not. As a non-programmer t
by yomly 8y ago
Something I noticed (having worked as both a non-programmer and programmer) that hangovers affect me much worse as a programmer than not.
As a non-programmer there were always mundane things I could do to keep things ticking over: sending emails, updating reports etc.
As a programmer who solely codes, there's not many places I can hide in my work if I'm off form. If my concentration is impeded, my output will very visibly suffer.
- hinkley 8y agoI work on something else. Docs. Code reviews. Backlog. Automation. Or I read up on what the broke in version 1.5.4 of the library we use for this part of the code. Read up on the new language features coming out later this year. Or review the keyboard shortcuts for my editor. It doesn’t help me so much with this week’s story (I fuckin hate Scrum now) but it helps in the long run.
- alexashka 8y agoWe've automated away the trivial bits somewhat - the remaining bits require far more concentration than most jobs that are soon to be automated away (driving etc)