Code writing brain waves...

Man, im exactly the same!!

Definitely. (Although I usually start at about midnight though, so ''late'' is like 2-3am.)

I find that if I resist the urge to surf and just start coding straight away, I often forget that I was going to do other stuff and end up just programming all the way. Sometimes this happens even when when the other stuff is not on the computer, like I will hire a video and then have to return it without watching it because I got sidetracked coding for days... in short, rather than saying I can continue late, I would say I just can''t stop.

But of course, if I start out by playing a game, then my brain turns to mush and that''s it. There are days when I program only, and days when I don''t at all.

A similar thing happens at work. Of course I don''t surf the net, well... except for now... but sometimes there are periods of a couple of hours where for some reason everything goes well, runs properly, I even seem to type faster, and I accomplish what would normally take the whole day. I presume some of us are familiar with that too, ''In your zone'' I think is the term?

I don''t like to let on to the boss about that every time though, in case he adjusts progress expectations to match those turbo days - anyone else?

Yep.

And I find it''s specifically coding, as well. I do two things on my machine at the moment, coding and mapping (for Half-Life). At midnight, if I''m coding, I''ll usually continue - more often than not, because I''m so involved in the coding that I don''t notice the time. But if I''m mapping, I''ll usually stop then, if not before.

I''d guess it''s because mapping involves pausing every few minutes to recompile the map, while recompiling my code takes only a few seconds. So mapping has interruptions in which I can check the time, where coding really doesn''t.

It also explains why my addiction to Spider Solitaire has ruined my productivity.

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If I start, I have trouble stopping a lot of times.....But I for one can start late at night, sometimes at 1 or 2 in the morning, and go until 5 or 6.

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I seem to have trouble coding any time of the day, refreshed or not. I think it''s partly due to me not planning out anything that I should do.

If I didn''t have to be at work at 8:30 a.m. I would probably code late into the night. As it is now I get really frustrated with coding when I come across snags that I can''t solve in a few minutes so I drop out and do something else. I also find that I am more likely to want to start coding a fresh, new project than one weeks in development.