I 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.
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#12I'm a 10PM sleeper - the morning is a really under-appreciated hacking time. I've found, generally, that 12AM and later hacking sessions both aren't sustainable and aren't as productive as they seem at first glance. Plus, I'm usually so excited in the morning to get working that I have no trouble getting up (around 5am - 7 hours sleep) to start hacking. Personally, when I was doing the 4AM hacking sessions, I was wor…
I too am a 10PM bed timer, only recently though, it forces me to use the time before bed more productively.
Before I would waste time browsing news.yc, digg, watching videos and reading blogs/news.
Now I try to catch up on blogs whenever I have the chance and place more attention of developing stuff.
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#13It varies a lot for me. When I'm in an exercising phase, it's arond 1 am. Right now, it's 5-6 am.
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#14My sleep schedule drifts forward gradually. Right now, I go to bed around 6pm and wake up around 2am. Tomorrow, it'll probably be an hour later. A couple weeks from now, I'll be going to bed at 6am.
I do find that I'm much more productive when I'm awake during the night. It's probably because there aren't any interruptions and I couldn't run an errand if I wanted to.
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#15Don'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 at work)
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#16I'm a 10PM sleeper - the morning is a really under-appreciated hacking time. I've found, generally, that 12AM and later hacking sessions both aren't sustainable and aren't as productive as they seem at first glance. Plus, I'm usually so excited in the morning to get working that I have no trouble getting up (around 5am - 7 hours sleep) to start hacking. Personally, when I was doing the 4AM hacking sessions, I was wor…
When I tell people that I wake up usually around 3-4 in the morning, they think that it's from my alarm clock. It often is but at least 1/5 of the time it's because, like you said, I'm just pumped about doing something I'm excited about. "Gotta get that proposal together" or "I need to finish the code on the shopping cart module"...
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#17I 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.
I also think I am in that category. I think it also relates to physical activity (or lack thereof).
So I go overboard on exercise and it helps partially correct that.
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#184am on a good night; means I've got good momentum going. 2am if there is nothing special happening.
Same here. I do that all the time. Though sometime its kind of very tiring the next day.
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#20Is 3.30 AM now!