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Re: Ask HN: How Many Hours Do You Code in a Day?

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2h. The rest of the time is spent thinking.

Does that imply you aren’t thinking whilst you work ;)

Staring into the screen doesn't solve any problems. Have to break it up somehow to actually think - notepad, conversations, walks, shower, lunch, and so on.

Re: Ask HN: How Many Hours Do You Code in a Day?

#52
Sometimes 0 hours a day for extended periods of time followed by 4ish hours a day of implementation/hacking.

I'd say I spend probably 2-10x more time writing than I do "coding" - where writing is Hammock Driven Development[1] for others to consume

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

Re: Ask HN: How Many Hours Do You Code in a Day?

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WakaTime is the most popular automatic time tracker for devs. We release a report each January about the time devs spend coding using our platform [0] and the average is 48 mins per day. However, there's room for segmenting by things like languages, editors, job description, student vs full time vs contract. Maybe this year we'll segment our yearly report to show daily average segmented by these attributes. [0]: http…

Breaking out by 10% percent will be neat for your reports, bottom 10% up to top 10%
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