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Where's Your Coding Happy Place?
jammag writes "Cranking out code — your very best code — requires being in the optimal environment, muses developer Eric Spiegel. He explores the pitfalls and joys of the usual locales, cubicle, home, the beach. He claims he's done his best coding on an airplane. In the end, though, he suggests that the best environment is a matter of the environment inside yourself, your internal mood — and to hell with the cubicle or wherever. You have to be focused on quality, regardless of the idiot clients. It's all inside your mind. Where's your coding happy place?"
Depends on your jurisdiction, I'm guessing, but at least when I served they left me, another programmer, and a chemist on the jury.
You got tapped because you don't know what you are doing. The trick is, when they get to you and ask you about your job and spouse and such, is to proclaim clearly and in your best and most assertive and confident Obama voice, that you are "able to be 100% impartial and will consider only the evidence presented" and, because of your training as a scientist/engineer, are "never swayed by emotional appeal". If you do this, you are the next juror excused no matter whose turn it is to excuse jurors. It works every time for me.
Just callin' it like I see it.