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Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#2Sleep.
Specifically, going to bed early enough regularly.
Feels like my day has 24.5 hours, so each day shifts back by 30 minutes
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#3More recent jobs I have been told I am not coding quick enough, and being grilled because something took 2X or 3X that they expected done in X. Not sure if I am slow, have slowed down, or remained the same speed and now expectations are a lot faster, or it is more transparent with time logging in JIRA being a big thing now.
What I do different to other coders I have noticed when doing code reviews is I do a lot less copy/paste and like to think about how to put code together in a better way. I also find it hard to do boring work fast, I get distracted. I also find it hard to focus in a noisy office so that can slow me down too. Some joker comes up and makes some jokes and all the state I have built up in my head is lost.
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#4Sleep. Specifically, going to bed early enough regularly. Feels like my day has 24.5 hours, so each day shifts back by 30 minutes
Yeah. Same here. 24 h 37 m 22.663 s more precisely.
The only explanation I have is that we come from Mars.
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#5More recent jobs I have been told I am not coding quick enough, and being grilled because something took 2X or 3X that they expected done in X. Not sure if I am slow, have slowed down, or remained the same speed and now expectations are a lot faster, or it is more transparent with time logging in JIRA being a big thing now. What I do different to other coders I have noticed when doing code reviews is I do a lot less…
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#6Sleep. Specifically, going to bed early enough regularly. Feels like my day has 24.5 hours, so each day shifts back by 30 minutes
It might help you to know that you're in good company. For many people, the natural circadian rhythm is slightly longer than the standard 24 hours, so without conscious effort the daily cycle actually would shift back by 10-30 minutes vs clock time, e.g. https://www.howsleepworks.com/how_circadian.html
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#7I struggle with feeling like I never know enough. The more I learn the more it feels there is to know. As a result even as I learn more and more, I feel dumber and dumber :D
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#8Sleep. Specifically, going to bed early enough regularly. Feels like my day has 24.5 hours, so each day shifts back by 30 minutes
Yeah. Same here. 24 h 37 m 22.663 s more precisely. The only explanation I have is that we come from Mars.
Not really! This is actually normal and documented, most people's circadian rhythms are on a slightly longer than 24 hour clock: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/284/5423/2177
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#9More recent jobs I have been told I am not coding quick enough, and being grilled because something took 2X or 3X that they expected done in X. Not sure if I am slow, have slowed down, or remained the same speed and now expectations are a lot faster, or it is more transparent with time logging in JIRA being a big thing now. What I do different to other coders I have noticed when doing code reviews is I do a lot less…
One trick I've learned is to write out, (in a structured comment), what I am going to do an how I'm going to do it _before_ actually writing the code.
It seems redundant but it actually forces me to do a quick think-through of what's happening. Plus distractions get a lot easier to handle: I just need to read what I've written down to reload the context.
Paradoxically, I've found that this method of typing out _more stuff_ actually helps me finish much faster.
Re: Ask HN: What do you struggle with?
#10I struggle with feeling like I never know enough. The more I learn the more it feels there is to know. As a result even as I learn more and more, I feel dumber and dumber :D
Dunning-Kruger.