Subj : Re: do serious programmers have a life?
To   : comp.lang.c++,comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 02:48 pm

amanda992004 wrote:

> Excluding the factors of the brain capability, i.e I am not asking
> about this factor, if you are a single, aside from enjoying coding or
> debugging,  how do you make time to eat properly, i.e healthily w/o
> spending big bucks at special healthy food places and also take care of
> life's daily chores w/o feeling like a robot.  Any time for social
> activites with people other than programmers?
>
> Is feeling like a robot a typical description of a programmer's life?

How many hours do you work?

The myth that programmers can or should work more than 8 hours a day is 
tragic, and is responsible for an incredible amount of lost productivity, 
bugs, etc. (But heck, at least we don't cut off the wrong limb like 
overworked doctors do...)

When you work, as you get tired, you cross a point where you are not adding 
value but removing value from a program. Go home.

One pseudoscientific way to refer to this situation, popular these days 
among technocrats, is that programming is "left-brained" and having a life 
is "right brained". That's not accurate - all activities use both physical 
sides of your brain - but it works adequately as a parable. Exercising your 
right brain allows your left to rest and recharge.

Programmers should go home on time and have a life.

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  Phlip
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