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How Many Hours a Week Can You Program?
An anonymous reader writes "How many hours a week should a full-time programmer program? Trying to program anywhere near 40 wears me out. On a good week, I can do 20. Often, it is around 10 or 15. I'm talking about your programming session at the console, typing — including, of course, stopping and thinking for a minute, but not meetings, reading programming books, notes, specifications, etc., which by comparison feel like lunch breaks. I rarely get called to meetings (which is good) but that means to keep my brain from overheating I spend several hours a week surfing the web (usually reading tech news but also a few stops on Facebook, email, etc.). I should add that I am interrupted a few times per day. Me and another guy maintain an intranet site of a couple dozen web apps for an IT department, so we work on a few different things: phone calls, bug fixes, feature adds, as well as writing new web apps from the ground up, all in a day's work. And I know that wears a person out more than if they had just one project to work on. I wonder if programming is like mental sprinting, not walking, so you can only do it in bursts. Am I normal or stealing?"
"to keep my brain from overheating I spend several hours a week surfing the web (usually reading tech news but also a few stops on Facebook, email, etc). I should add that I am interrupted a few times per day."
You said you usually work about 10-15 hours per week. So that means that on some weeks, you fuck off on the internet for 30 hours a week!?! Sorry you to hear you get "interrupted a few times per day" while Facebooking. You poor, poor thing.
Oh, and by the way, I'm on my daily 10 minute break. Back to actual work for me. Have a nice 8 hour day doing.....whatever it is you do.
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40 hours a week.
What the hell kind of idiot is posting this? When at work you should be working. If you mean actually sitting there and pushing buttons to create code that then is compiled and will remain as part of the code? 15 hours. If you mean all the required steps to create an actually half useful piece of code? FORTY HOURS A FRIGEN WEEK.
So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."
Fuck that old job and fuck that employer... it wasn't worth it.
More like fuck you.
Why do you think that you have the right to waste the employers time and money watching youtube videos, updating facebook and surfing the web. They are paying you to work, not to have fun. Sounds like you're just an asshole slacker.