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5 hours straight? I think you mean 8 hours straight. Or 12.
by guynamedloren 16y ago
5 hours straight? I think you mean 8 hours straight. Or 12.
- nostrademons 16y agoI think a lot of hackers may think they're programming for 8-hours straight, but if they actually measured it, it wouldn't be anywhere close. RescueTime did a survey of YCombinator companies once, and nobody hit 10 hours a day of pure, typing-in-editor coding time. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209195 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209195 Now, it's now 1:00 AM, and I'm still coding stuff for work, having been at it since about noon. But that wasn't even close to continuous coding time. There was a break for the massage chair in there, and a break for beer o'clock, and a break for snacks, and a discussion with the Dojo guy and the GMail guy and the Docs girl about JavaScript, and a break for air hockey, and a break for chinese take-out & D&D, and a few Hacker News sessions. I find that the most I can do in a continuous stretch is about 2-3 hours. I can fit a few of those into a day, but I rarely manage more than 7 hours of actual coding time per 24-hour period.
- guynamedloren 16y agoInteresting perspective into the life of a hacker!