3 ms·

That honestly seems conservative. The times I've missed an entire night I've been essentially useless or an actual detriment.

• jimbokun 7y ago
  In reality, your "productivity" is likely to be negative, as you will need to spend even more time fixing the mistakes you made trying to program in a sleep deprived state.
• hinkley 7y ago
  One of the first faculties to go is judgement. Those macho people who talk about toughing it out literally don’t know what they are talking about. You can’t self monitor when you’re loopy. And your recall of events is hampered too. The only measure you can count on is to look at the consequences after the fact, and there are a lot of fragile egos that can’t handle counting the cost of all their mistakes. If you won’t see them you can’t account for them in your mental math. I’ve tried to borrow some ideas from protocols for hypoxia. By the time you’re loopy you should not be making any decisions.
• deathanatos 7y ago
  I've seen this. Had a co-worker who was up most of a night dealing with a page. Came into work, wrote some brand new code, and since it was basically all written on that day, and all by him, it was easy to trace back to him / that event. The whole thing was riddled with bugs, and well below his usual quality level. Most of it got rewritten fairly quick, but yeah, if he'd taken the day off and then written it the next day, time would have been saved. I feel like it's hard to really know when you're in that state, too. Your mind is too apt to go "I'm fine."