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15 hours of coding, and still going strong

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 5:28 am
by infolock
this is how it's been for the past, oh, 3 weeks now for me. 15 hours of coding, 3 hours of sleep, 4 hours of school, and then let's repeat.

thank god for folgers is all i know :D crazy part is, i still feel like i'm not spending enough time in it 8O .

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 6:15 am
by m3mn0n
Wow, me too. But I am not using coffee. Image

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 6:30 am
by qads
i only use coke lol, the best i ever done is 13 hours without breaks (execpt bathroom ones lol), and thats from 6pm to 7am btw :P

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:09 am
by infolock
hehe, i take smoke breaks, and food breaks, but i been going since like 3pm yesturday lol. i got school though in 3 hours, so i'm gonna have to cut it off short here and go do some research for a few papers i gotta turn in lol. adios, have fun

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:17 am
by qads
hmmm...you smoke? lol, so do i, not a gret thing though, wonder if its true that "smokers are more creative" lol. they say that about left handed people too...i am left handed! 8)

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:55 am
by JPlush76
you should try coding in your sleep, then you can power code ;)

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 10:33 am
by JayBird
even worse is when you doing something wrong in a real life situation - like spill and drink - and you find yourself thinking Control-Z (done this a few times myself).

Then you know you have been at your keyboard too long!

Mark

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:05 pm
by McGruff
When I'm at home and coding 12-15 is a normal day. Every couple of months or so I wind up doing 40 hour sessions - no breaks to sleep but I do stop to eat admittedly. When the ideas are flowing you just can't stop - takes too long to get back to where you were.

I started off with php about a year ago just wanting to hack a CMS, and now I'm trying to develop a whole framework - hence the hours.

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:40 pm
by m3mn0n
That is so true.

But where do you draw the line between conviction and addiction? I've been wondering that lately. It seems people who don't ever do more than 2 hours at a time call it an addiction, while the people who can last 8 hours with only 2 min breaks every few hours call it plain old dedication. :?

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 12:56 am
by infolock
i dunno, i just call it being a nightcrawler. Just enjoying solving problems with your code, or getting to see the final working result. then being able to sit back, see that you've written a few hundred or thousand lines of code, and just knowing that it was you that wrote it.

maybe it's just an obession, not so much an addiction :P

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 8:33 am
by qads
it gives a great sense of...uh...pride?...its gives soemthing alright lol

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:52 pm
by McGruff
Sami wrote:That is so true.

But where do you draw the line between conviction and addiction?
I guess it's just the nature of the beast really: creating a program takes a lot of hours and "immersion".

My own aim is to create a pile of code I can pretty much throw together quickly to create almost any kind of website. I don't mind working hard for a time to get there. If I can work on a new job for a month or so then take the next month off to enjoy myself that would be the ideal freelance lifestyle.

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:12 am
by m3mn0n
Very true. That's my ultimate goal when it comes to my learning of classes & OOP. Instead of coding a whole new application for each job I do, instead I select a series of classes out of my library of source code, and presto, the work is done. :wink:

But most of the work I do isn't creating complete sites, rather updating and building on top of already existing code. So though the 'library of classes' would save me time when required, it still doesn't help in regards to the rest of my work. :x