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Yeah, this reminds me a lot of the "Impossibly Hungry Judges" problem[0]. [0] http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-h

by mabbo 7y ago

Yeah, this reminds me a lot of the "Impossibly Hungry Judges" problem[0]. [0] http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges

gnat 7y ago
This is a great article. The original paper was in my head as a truth, and I've revised that since reading this post. Thanks!
samatman 7y ago
> If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45 a.m. ...this has potential! Scrape GitHub, find closed issues marked 'bug', do a blame on the offending line or lines, find the timestamp and plot.
- fwip 7y ago
  Has potential for the exact same selection bias as the judge study, you mean? See if we can discover some impossibly hungry programmers.
- tmpz22 7y ago
  It would be a pita to control for time zones, or even culturally different lunch times and eating habits
  - JoshTriplett 7y ago
    Git commits do embed a timezone in the commit timestamp. And while lunchtime will vary by person, there may still be a visible effect around common lunchtimes over a large number of people.
  - samatman 7y ago
    Time is an illusion; lunchtime, doubly so. The hypothesis I would personally register is that bugs increase after 5:30 PM, and that this effect drops off in late evening hours. Basically, that compelling one's employees to stay late is an anti-pattern, where one loses more than one gains.
  - chris1993 7y ago
    I read this as 'pita' as in 'pita bread'. A clever reference to lunch time if that was the intention? Culturally different too as we don't often eat pita for lunch here, but I imagine it's common elsewhere.
Fjolsvith 7y ago
Having been through the court system twice, from experience I've seen dockets arranged so that more severe cases are saved for last, and cases with a quick disposition (like probation or fine) are taken care of first. Edit: This allows the law officials to remove offenders faster from the courtroom.

by mabbo 7y ago

Yeah, this reminds me a lot of the "Impossibly Hungry Judges" problem[0]. [0] http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges

gnat 7y ago

This is a great article. The original paper was in my head as a truth, and I've revised that since reading this post. Thanks!

samatman 7y ago

> If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45 a.m. ...this has potential! Scrape GitHub, find closed issues marked 'bug', do a blame on the offending line or lines, find the timestamp and plot.

fwip 7y ago
Has potential for the exact same selection bias as the judge study, you mean? See if we can discover some impossibly hungry programmers.
tmpz22 7y ago
It would be a pita to control for time zones, or even culturally different lunch times and eating habits
- JoshTriplett 7y ago
  Git commits do embed a timezone in the commit timestamp. And while lunchtime will vary by person, there may still be a visible effect around common lunchtimes over a large number of people.
- samatman 7y ago
  Time is an illusion; lunchtime, doubly so. The hypothesis I would personally register is that bugs increase after 5:30 PM, and that this effect drops off in late evening hours. Basically, that compelling one's employees to stay late is an anti-pattern, where one loses more than one gains.
- chris1993 7y ago
  I read this as 'pita' as in 'pita bread'. A clever reference to lunch time if that was the intention? Culturally different too as we don't often eat pita for lunch here, but I imagine it's common elsewhere.

Fjolsvith 7y ago

Having been through the court system twice, from experience I've seen dockets arranged so that more severe cases are saved for last, and cases with a quick disposition (like probation or fine) are taken care of first. Edit: This allows the law officials to remove offenders faster from the courtroom.