I try to end at 2:30...but almost always I end at 3:30
Poll: How late do you stay up?
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#22Don't know how you all pull those 4am nights. I used to be able to, then I got a real job that I go into the office for. But even though we start at 10am, I am in bed by latest at 11pm, wake up at 6:25am every day (yah even weekends), and do all my catching up (blogs, email, etc) twice a day, once in the morning with all my extra time, and once at night sometime after dinner. (Ok and a little bit during lunch hours a…
I bet you're on your lunch break now ;-)
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#23I work a day job and hack work at night, plus i have a young child, so on a normal day i work for an hour or so when I first get home from work, then dinner/fam time till 9, then skype team meetings and solo work till 12. Then bed. Then up at 5:45 am. This has been a bit rigorous but we are getting it done.
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#24I generally stay up until about midnight; despite being a bit of a night owl I still find that I get tired quickly unless I grab some caffeine. One hacker I know, however, doesn't fit this list at all; he has a ~24-36 hour day (the second derivative of the length of his day is limited to about an hour, however). This means he might be sleeping in the middle of the day for everyone else.
I have a 30-36 hour long day, and the only way I was able to rein it in and get to where I could sleep normally (I have a sucky non-programming related job that demands I be conscious from M-F 9-5) was to completely change my diet to a more hunter-gatherer style diet and start exercising after work.
On the plus side, i am now the strongest person at my workplace, which amuses me greatly. (Two guys will work together to pick up a 50" TV, I'll pick it up by myself just to freak them out, lol.)
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#25Not enough options! I stay up till 8am, sometimes 10am. Other days 1pm! I live around the clock :) Best schedule for a hacker.
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#26I'm asleep right now!
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#27Seriously, morning is the new night. Most hackers I know stay up late, so they're in the office. When I need to concentrate without distractions, I just go in in the morning.
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#28I'd need a "none of the above" option. I'm not so much a night-owl as an "I don't sleep on a fixed schedule" guy. Often that means I'm awake all night, but not predictably.
Ditto. Though not "not on a fixed schedule" as much as "random bouts of insomnia."
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#29Coding at night is often better for building large pieces of code because there's no interruption.
Where I work you can watch the SVN commit messages in the dev channel coming by until about 5:00 AM several times a week. I'm on the dev team and do this myself about every other week.
This doesn't mean we're a bad company whipping every last bit of productivity out of people. It just means that sometimes you're on a roll, you're in the zone and you have to keep going. We get that. It's fine. Just don't show up at the office the next day.
Talented developers often are slightly anarchic, neurotic and just a wee bit obsessive. Even the most straight-laced "I only work 9-to-5" developers sometimes make a 4:00 AM commit because "I couldn't sleep and just figured out how we could re-use the token substitution in the webservices interface variables by mapping them to the corresponding domain entity attributes and applying the usual validation rules to them!"
Yeah, we're a model of sanity where I work :)
Generally speaking, as a developer you can start work between 8:00 and 12:00, but if you're just starting here the start time is 8:00 to 10:00 because you need supervision, education and time in pair-programming.
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#30I consider myself to have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome ), though whether it should qualify as a "syndrome" is debatable. I don't need more sleep than the average person, I just need it later in the 24-hour cycle. I wouldn't be surprised if many/most hackers are the same way.
This is an interesting look on it... didn't know it was actually a classified disorder. While my sleep cycle is pretty mixed, for the most part I can't sleep during the normal phases of the 24 period. Further, I don't have an exercise problem... I just do it whenever I feel up to it. My sleep cycle started to change rapidly when I worked the graveyard shift for my first professional job... did that for about 3-4 years, which really messed me up sleep-wise.
The one thing I love about night-hacking is the serious lack of distractions. It assists me greatly in concentrating... at least in my neck of the woods there is less distractions.