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How many hours of sleep do developers get?
It can sound silly, but I'm curious about this. When I read stats about commit times and or the post from wark milson (http://warkmilson.com/2015/05/15/three-years-of-logging-my-inbox-count.html#time-spent-checking-email), I feel developers get 5 hours of sleep every night.
If you want to tell about yourself, please do.
(You can also talk about the amount of coffee you drink to balance)
- gamechangr 11y agoI sleep six hours and drink one cup of coffee about 2pm. I have monitored my coffee intake for three years. I average 5.4 a week or ( 1 cup a day most workdays) I should mention that I run 4-5 times a week in the morning.
- mod 11y agoI don't function on 5 hours of sleep. I work at home, and with 5 hours of sleep I'll literally just fall asleep at my desk. I need 7-9 hours, and probably average 8.5. I really wish I only needed 5, though.
- kat 11y agoI need somewhere between 7-8 hours of sleep. I don't drink coffee and I exercise 3 times a week. I find sleep matters more in the long run. I can function on 6 hours, but after a few months I'm burned out and I end up catching whatever cold/flu is going around.
- Rainymood 11y agoSleep is important. Like really important. You can be 'cool' and play 'rockstar programmer' for a couple of nights, but it will have some negative impact on your long term productivity. That being said, I too, have had some epiphanies at 4 am ... I average around 7-8, I wish I could get a steady 8.5+ but my body just won't budge. Guess I'm stuck with 8 hours :)
- staunch 11y agoSleep is the only magic brain regeneration mechanism that exists. Every other option is drastically less effective at improving long-term and consistent productivity.
- sheepmullet 11y ago9.5 hours on average. Skipping out on sleep in order to get more done only works as a very short term strategy (effective for less than 2 weeks IMO, and even then only for grunt-like work).
- pathy 11y agoI try to sleep 8 hours per night, during weekdays it is probably closer to 7 but I don't function well on less than that. I tend to drink about 3-5 cups of coffee per day so not that much. I do avoid coffee after 3pm though.
- lazyfunctor 11y agoI average between 7-8 hours. I drink maybe 2-3 cups of tea in a day. I swim around 3 times a week, squash maybe once or twice a week and kayaking(white water) on some of the weekends.
- bowlich 11y agoMore than when I worked retail. If I looked at when I used to do customer-facing work. I could get by on four hours a night. Show up with blood shot eyes and bumble through the day without any fear of messing up. Since my development career has taken off I can't go less than 9 hours of sleep. It seriously impacts my work performance to not have a full night's rest and I will even stop work and go home for a nap (or hit the gym, seems like a 50/50 which will work to pep up the energy) if I start feeling my internal engines roaring down. I have done some late night commits. I do wake up in the middle of the night with a burning idea. I occassionally stay up to work on a personal project but I can only afford to do that maybe once or twice a month. I do sometimes miss the days of menial service industry work where I could just stay up and binge-watch a show on Netflix, read a novel cover-to-cover, or code through the night on a personal project knowing that being exhausted at work wouldn't ding me on the next review.
- irascible 11y ago6 - 12 hours sleep, and a pot of coffee (8 "cups") per day.