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Finding the Programming Zone?
SlashDotDashDot asks: "As a developer for 20+ years, I've developed a fairly fine tuned way to find 'The Zone' for optimal programming - a combination of furniture arrangement (PC and chair), lighting
and music. I also have a pretty good sense of what time of day is best for working on a particular set of problems. But this is what works for me. My company is growing and I'm needing to mediate working conditions between my clients and consultants. This has me wondering what others have found important for finding 'The Zone' in their programming lives. How fast can you get there? How long does it last? What do you do that helps keep that state? What are the major interrupters?" We also touched on this issue in a similar article, last year. However, many of you may have ways of attaining "the zone" that don't depend on any of the factors listed above. If you have a method that works for you, please share. It may work for others.
Window please! A real window!
I personally find programming more comforting in my house. I can sit in my own chair and lean back and prop my feet up on my desk and not deal with a chair that keeps my back perfectly straight for 10 hours at a time. I have my computer setup the way I want it with no admin restrictions set forth on me. You dont have to worry when you accidentally click that goatse.cx link that everyone will look at your monitor. Also nothing beats shitting in your own toilet without worrying if your boss is in the stall next to you when you have a case of the runs.
I hate to tell you, but coding isn't like writing a novel.
You're a VB "programmer," I presume?
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Need I say more?
What are the major interrupters?!?
Hello??
You just asked the major interrupter!!!!
I stole this Sig
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it could be a problem if the the windows aren't soundproofed enough and I have to listen to the conversations all the smokers have on their breaks.
Smoker 1: So, we started smoking to be cool and popular, but now all our clothes stink, our lungs are charred and black, and we're the only two dipshits standing out here feeding our addictions while everyone else is inside.
Smoker 2: Yep.
Smoker 1: (takes a puff) Is this what you expected?
Smoker 2: (takes a puff) Nope.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
You're a perl "programmer," I presume?
Heh, I'm trying to convince my boss that /. is a snazzy front end for CPAN :)
(B) + (D) + (B) + (D) = (K) + (&)
I haven't understood the geek fascination with soda. A cooler of water is all I need (I drink tons and actually get a little water high from it).
Excessive soda just makes you look like Cowboy Neal after a few years. Which makes contact with members of the opposite sex difficult.
Or easier, if your building has narrow corridors.
Simon
Coming soon - pyrogyra
Demographic study of the average slashdot reader's weight. Based on the responces to this posing, I'm buying stock in Frito Lay... Not that I am not just as guilty as anyone else on this.
Sorry, I didn't make it past "get up at 5:00am" :)
Damn! You mean all this time i've been spending on designing and coding I could have just turned to the back of the book to the Answers section!?!
That's a very good idea; I had thought of trying something like that, like putting up a bead curtain or some other kind of non-door cue, but objects on the desk sounds simpler.
I hope that sphere has flat spots to make stacking easier, otherwise I'm very impressed. Even more impressive would be if he could stack the cube on the sphere on the point of the pyramid!
--Jim
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