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Re: At what time of day do famous programmers work?

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Post by smudgymcscmudge » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:35 PM UTC

artur_makly wrote: post #35

TIL who the hell these 'famous' folks are!

Who would you consider famous among currently active programmers that aren’t on this list?

I knew about half of the list (mainly the authors of software I use). I could probably name a few who are equally famous, but not many who are more famous.

edit: I went back and counted. I recognized 4 of 7 names.

Re: At what time of day do famous programmers work?

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Post by franciscop » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:35 PM UTC

cptskippy wrote: post #11

glandium wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another issue is that when you travel to a different timezone, you don't necessarily update the timezone of your system.

Aren't most devices configured to adjust automatically these days?

In the blog post it specifies that it uses the Unix timestamp, which doesn't account for timezones.

Re: At what time of day do famous programmers work?

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Post by euph0ria » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:40 PM UTC

I code a lot at evening/nights but I almost always let it rest until the next day after waking up and do a review and then commit.

Re: At what time of day do famous programmers work?

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Post by donatj » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:47 PM UTC

franciscop wrote: post #42

cptskippy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't most devices configured to adjust automatically these days?

In the blog post it specifies that it uses the Unix timestamp, which doesn't account for timezones.

It's Unix timestamp followed by timezone.

Re: At what time of day do famous programmers work?

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Post by zcrackerz » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:47 PM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #39

Author is probably a non-native English speaker, so, gentle correction: "At what time of day do non famous programmers work?"

The original article was written in Russian, so I'm assuming this is an automatic translation.

Re: At what time of day do famous programmers work?

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Post by donatj » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:51 PM UTC

It's interesting to me hearing people in the comments talk about committing after hours of work. I instinctively commit after every maybe 30 loc, especially if I feel it has value. I'll sometimes squash them down if the PR turns out particularly noisy. It would be interesting to compare the average size of commits as well I'd imagine.

Re: At what time of day do famous programmers work?

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Post by mikorym » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

> and timezone information (+0300)

> to filter only the commits by one person get the local time of that commit and aggregate it by hour when the commit was make

So these are all in local time of the computer doing the commit, if I am not mistaken.

Re: At what time of day do famous programmers work?

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Post by aerovistae » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:56 PM UTC

Are the times localized to the timezone they're in?

Re: At what time of day do famous programmers work?

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Post by panpanna » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:57 PM UTC

flr03 wrote: post #25

It's difficult to draw any conclusion since we don't know their work pattern. If you commit at 12 it probably means you were working between 9 and 12, or between 11 and 12 or maybe it's just yesterday's work ? Who knows.

I usually work 9-5 and commit before going home. I might pick it up again at home and commit my changes before I go to sleep, around 11.

According to this study I would be working 5 to 11pm

Re: At what time of day do famous programmers work?

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Post by radlad » Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 1:58 PM UTC

Sharlin wrote: post #26

glandium wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

git stash save my stuff (deprecated) git stash push -m "my stuff"

What GP wanted was to stash a history of commits, not just the current state of the working tree. `git stash` is fundamentally unable to do that.

That's just called a branch. What GP described was committing all their changes into a single WIP commit.