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I work this way too - I think there are a lot of us. It is hard to get into the "zone" for coding, so once I am there I work until I am quite tired.

So usually i work in 20+ hour spurts, and that is when I get my best work done.



i am not sjure about 20+ hour spurts unless you include the most valuable time for coding: doing something away from any computer.. coding in you head. I think pg has written about it not too long ago. For me, this coding in your head continues and gets re-forumlated, stored as pseudocode in my head until i can write down the full the implementation in one step. This way i sometimes come to 48h+ of work (including dreaming of code;-) which is just 10percent pysical hacking at a keyboard. /Toni




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