yes - tell your friends to take a break. i'm sure there's some research out
there that proves this, but my experience says that you can't normaly think
hard for 3 hours strait, and you need a break. preferably, away from the
computer. my rule is 10 min per hour. make yourself a cup of tea, do
Lots of reasons why 1.5 hours is of little use. One is
risk of RSI. Another is proactive and retroactive inhibition of
memory.
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Carl == Carl Chilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Good points re the memory issues. Add to this the superman syndrome
and this is pressing reason enough to partition your work time slots and
breaks.
Carl
Superman syndrome. Idea from the 80s whereby you have a full size
cardboard cut-out of
On 2005-10-27 at 14:53BST John Sturdy wrote:
Carl == Carl Chilley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes: Superman syndrome. Idea from the 80s whereby you
have a full size cardboard cut-out of Superman standing
behind you, over one of your shoulders.
This is the one I knew as the Rubber plant effect, in
I think you underestimate the impact of the rubber plant. I used to
talk about my problems (debugging ones) to friends who were mildly
tech savvy -- at least analytic -- and those who were english
majors. I found that even if the person didn't say anything/much, I
got better results from the
The rubber plant Dijkstra stood in room 208 of the Computer
Laboratory, a room with about eight PhD students in it,
including Stuart Wray (I think it was his plant, but am not
sure) and myself. While we were fond of invoking The expert
programmer effect and the /idea/ of talking to
On 2005-10-27 at 16:41BST Lindsay Marshall wrote:
The rubber plant Dijkstra stood in room 208 of the Computer
Laboratory, [...]
The really interesting question is what effect did listening to
programmers going on about their problems have on the plant?
I'm sure it enjoyed the warm, damp,
I wish my previous post had stimulated such extensive
discussion! Obviously sitting on chairs and talking to plants and fluffy toys
is far more interesting ;)
Or maybe it just indicates the repressed
social needs of what can be a lonely profession?
Or simply a boys toys thing
where the toys are less macho than the norm?
Or because it is easier to talk in anecdotes
than engage in intellectual debate?
Sigh
Carl
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On 10/27/05 16:19, Carl Chilley wrote:
Sadly I have to confess I never had a cardboard cut-out of anything
At my first place of work, we had a full-sized cardboard Clint Eastwood
as Dirty Harry, complete with .44 Magnum, in our relatively small
computer room. I don't recall any programmer
On Oct 27, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Frank Wales wrote:
Perhaps because I'm an only child, I'm in the odd habit of holding
a conversation with myself when working on a problem, in which I
play both sides of the I don't understand why this doesn't work/
Well, that clearly can't work because of *this*
but my experience says that you can't normaly think hard for 3 hours strait, and you need a break.
yes, true, I worked in bachelors in antisocial mode, in the last 2 years, what happened, got burned out. But the antisocial mode helps when you are stuck analytically in something reallyhard and
On 10/27/05 18:05, Sean Heber wrote:
On Oct 27, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Frank Wales wrote:
Perhaps because I'm an only child, I'm in the odd habit of holding
a conversation with myself when working on a problem, in which I
play both sides of the I don't understand why this doesn't work/
Well, that
Here's a suggestion: have you tried *standing* while you work?
Famous standers include : George Bernard Shaw, Donald Rumsfeld and Radio 1 DJ
Chris Moyles. There has been a lot of discussion about working standing on
various weblogs recently.
L.
Carl Chilley wrote:
*Superman syndrome*. Idea from the 80s whereby you have a full size
cardboard cut-out of Superman standing behind you, over one of your
shoulders. Whenever you get a problem, you explain what it is to
Superman (the cut-out) and, in the vast majority of cases you then see a
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