Subj : Re: do serious programmers have a life? To : comp.lang.c++,comp.programming From : Alan Balmer Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 10:31 am On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:48:18 GMT, "Phlip" wrote: >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...) Yes, but programmers have the power to kill more than one person at a time. > >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. -- Al Balmer Balmer Consulting removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net .