Ask HN: When are you most alert? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: When are you most alert?

#21

Post by mkramlich » Wed, Sep 02, 2009, 5:33 PM UTC

When a gun is pointed at me by a man with very good aim.

Re: Ask HN: When are you most alert?

#22

Post by branden » Wed, Sep 02, 2009, 5:53 PM UTC

Hah, my schedule is just outside the bounds of the BBC poll. I must be a freak. My ideal day is 12 PM to 4 AM.

Re: Ask HN: When are you most alert?

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Post by joe » Wed, Sep 02, 2009, 6:37 PM UTC

Around 30 minutes after I eat dinner, which I usually do around 8:00 PM, up to or through midnight, thereabouts.

Re: Ask HN: When are you most alert?

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Post by electromagnetic » Wed, Sep 02, 2009, 7:40 PM UTC

Shamiq wrote: post #9

ngs wrote: post #8

I'm a night person, but if I force myself to get up early and go for a run then immediately after I am at my most alert, no matter it is 12 hours away from what is usually my most productive time of the day. I guess cave people didn't have a choice when it was time to run from a sabre-toothed tiger.

At least not the cave people that survived.

Even though most animals won't eat carrion, I don't think snoring helps when playing dead. I'm a heavy sleeper and when something jars me awake, I could do a mile run in my boxers, so I really believe exercise has a serious effect on your alertness . . . although that could be the effect of adrenaline and dopamine released during exercise.

Re: Ask HN: When are you most alert?

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Post by ams6110 » Wed, Sep 02, 2009, 11:51 PM UTC

ngs wrote: post #8

I'm a night person, but if I force myself to get up early and go for a run then immediately after I am at my most alert, no matter it is 12 hours away from what is usually my most productive time of the day. I guess cave people didn't have a choice when it was time to run from a sabre-toothed tiger.

Strangely, I'm always sleepy after exercise. If I go for a run, I'll feel like taking a nap when I'm done.

Re: Ask HN: When are you most alert?

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Post by huhtenberg » Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 12:26 AM UTC

dylanz wrote: post #17

Not in the mrnging

  Woke early one morning,
  The earth lay cool and still,
  When suddenly a tiny bird,
  Perched on my window sill,

  It sang a song so lovely,
  So carefree and so gay,
  That slowly all my troubles,
  Began to slip away,

  It sang of far off places,
  Of laughter and of fun,
  It seemed his very song,
  Brought out the morning sun,

  I pulled back the covers,
  And crept slowly out of bed,
  And gently shut the window,
  And crushed his freaking head,

  Because I'm not a morning person.

I have this printed and stapled to the wall in the office :)