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Nat is cargo culting. Great new things are built when passionate people come together to build them. And passionate people sometimes make sacrifices, like worki
by jakelazaroff 4y ago
Nat is cargo culting. Great new things are built when passionate people come together to build them. And passionate people sometimes make sacrifices, like working long hours and sleeping in the office. But killing yourself to meet deadlines is not, in and of itself, how great things are built.
- derangedHorse 4y agoI don't see how sleeping at the office would ever help anything lol. If anything the commute back home would give someone the time to decompress and passively pick at the problem while maintaining their usual schedules. A change to one's regular schedule and putting them under more stress is a recipe to disaster as the code generated from that period is probably going to be qualitatively worse than the code they could have generated after a good night's sleep.
- jakelazaroff 4y agoI mean, it might not. I’m saying that if someone is passionate about a project, they might end up compromising their sleep to work on it. That passion is what makes the project turn out great. But all an outside observer sees is the sleeping in the office, so they mistakenly think that they can replicate success by forcing uninspired people to do so.