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I don't believe that you need 3+ continuous hours to program. I myself routinely take breaks every hour or so; and believe the context switch is amortized at th

I don't believe that you need 3+ continuous hours to program. I myself routinely take breaks every hour or so; and believe the context switch is amortized at that time-frame. Also, the point is not purely about television. I've not watched ANY television at all for the past 4 years. However, random excursions into Wikipedia or reading blogs do cost time. At the end of the day, I still wonder if it is worth reading all that-- I could contribute to some open-source project (reporting bugs) for instance.

joeyo 17y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this depends strongly on the individual in question. Some people are very good at "reclaiming" small chunks of time--15 minutes here and there--that add up over the course of a day. Other people have a much more difficult time even getting started unless they have a large block of time.
- phugoid 17y ago
  To me it also depends on the task at hand. 20 minutes will get me through a chapter from Learning Pything (even if I'm not entirely sober), while 3 hours doesn't feel like enough to work on my ARM7 development board in Assembler (something totally new to me and not easy).