Coding Environment
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Coding Environment
Does the environment you code in effect how you code?
What's weird is that I when I am at work, I can code fairly easily...
But when I get home, I find it difficult. I'm not sure if it's the lighting, the desk, the monitor.... I have no idea.
What about you guys... what works best?
What's weird is that I when I am at work, I can code fairly easily...
But when I get home, I find it difficult. I'm not sure if it's the lighting, the desk, the monitor.... I have no idea.
What about you guys... what works best?
- Chris Corbyn
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I'm the same. I have to admit my motivation does drop as my room gets messier but I'm generally a very tidy person anyway so my version of "mess" isn't really a messTodd_Z wrote:It's much more my mood than my environment. Sometimes I am so productive and can work nonstop for 8 hrs, some days I get nothing done and just stare at the monitor.
Some days I'll sit there trying to to work but realise I've actually just been staring at the screen in a day dream for the past hour. If I'm at work I'll crack on with it because I have to.
I have a laptop (only a laptop!) so I often manage just fine sitting infront of the TV with the laptop on my knee watching footy or something. I tend to churn out code in bursts with a bit of procrastination (and tea/coffee) between each.
My wife yells at me when I start coding, because the first 30 or so seconds of audio aren't heard. She ends up having to repeat herself.astions wrote:When I write (complex) code I get really focused. If someone starts talking to me I either send the audio to /dev/null or if I respond it takes me a bit to get back on track again. I prefer to work at night when there aren't any distractions from cars/light/noise etc.
Not this programmer. I watch more TV and Movies than most people can even imagine - and I do mean that literally. Conservatively, I estimate that I've seen roughly 1/4th of the break-even or better mass-market movies released between the early 80's and today. Thats a huge amount - and plenty of it is crap. Ditto to TV shows.Todd_Z wrote:Crappy TV is the bane of any programmer's existance.
Worse, I can usually quote with strong accuracy, memorable lines from the movies. At work, most people know me as "The movie trivia guy", or simply "Mr.Moviephone".
TV is the background music that keeps me running. Its only when I get frantic that I shut the TV off, and start blasting loud music.
The code output from doing so is usually nightmarishly high-paced, and my back feels the pain of the effort afterward, so I don't do so often.
For me, bad TV in the background is the norm. Of course, "bad" is relative.
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- Chris Corbyn
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- Chris Corbyn
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Nah... There were only a few of us who found it amusing that the thread started so interstingly about the chick but finished up being all about the use of style in <font> tagsastions wrote:Did I miss something here lol?
I'm laughing again nowscottayy wrote:I was teaching this chick HTML. So, as I'm going to bed.. i referred her to http://www.htmlgoodies.com to read a little bit more....
(Sorry scottayy, I'm laughing in a nice way
EDIT | I should mention that the reason I was so interested to find out what the crack was with the chick and going to bed was that the thread title was simply "WOW".
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