Omnimaga

General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: ingalls on April 23, 2011, 10:49:41 pm

Title: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: ingalls on April 23, 2011, 10:49:41 pm
How can you beat pulling an all-nighter trying to fix that one last but that continues to evade you....  :banghead:
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: Freyaday on April 23, 2011, 11:04:14 pm
By not waking up till dawn.
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: ingalls on April 23, 2011, 11:22:22 pm
lol :)
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: Munchor on April 24, 2011, 08:05:17 am
How can you beat pulling an all-nighter trying to fix that one last but that continues to evade you....  :banghead:

I hate coding when I'm sleepy, but I like to code during the day and debug during the night :D
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: ingalls on April 24, 2011, 07:05:20 pm
Yes, I prefer bug fixes at night to. I usually so alot of posting on forums at night too. Program in the day and bugfixes and code releases at night!
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: Juju on April 24, 2011, 07:19:14 pm
Yeah, me too I like to code at dawn and/or night. It's fun.
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: ingalls on April 24, 2011, 08:46:53 pm
One of the major things I like about it is the lack of distractions. I find I can code nonstop in durint he night where I have to start and stop during the day.
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: Ashbad on April 24, 2011, 10:26:00 pm
To tell the truth, I code best whenever.  I don't have a programming clock, minus a binary one literally in my room ::).  Thing is, I normally am horrible coding at night, because have no inspiration to make anything.  I get my best inspiration during the summer on a slightly humid day, staring out the window into the small oak 'forest' across the street....

And I daydream.  Once I daydream, I get the best ideas imaginable, and therefore my best games have been made during the summer, such as the never-released SOLDAT that was "sure to win the Axe summer contest of 2010" until I got stuck with code :(

TL;DR -- hard to daydream good ideas during nighttime, since it is not technically daytime and therefore you cannot dream without sleeping ;)
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: Freyaday on April 25, 2011, 12:40:36 am
Ashbad: I can daydream at night. Maybe it has to do with being a catboy-loli-ballerino.
I program/write/draw whenever the idea strikes me, but my longest continuous stretches of those activities occur at night.
I'm sorry if that sentence made sense, it was not meant to.
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 12, 2011, 10:06:51 pm
My motivation to code comes only when I am at work or elsewhere away from a computer. X.x
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: ruler501 on May 12, 2011, 10:44:02 pm
I daydream at night just not as much. I program three time as fast with half the bugs late at night/early in the morning. I think its because of the lack of distractions and the focus I can obtain at that time. when I get near crashing(falling asleep while coding. It has only happened to me once before) though I only code 1/5 speed and with >9000 times more bugs.
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: Deep Toaster on May 15, 2011, 11:58:58 am
My motivation to code comes only when I am at work or elsewhere away from a computer. X.x

Same, it sucks but I guess that means I'm not distracted by forums or IRC.
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: Eeems on May 15, 2011, 12:06:37 pm
I work best between 11 and 2 at night. Everything seems to work smoother for me, no real idea why x.x
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: Binder News on May 15, 2011, 12:32:21 pm
I work best between 11 and 2 at night. Everything seems to work smoother for me, no real idea why x.x
So true. The best time to code, but especially to debug is 11pm to 2am. After that I start getting tired.
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: Deep Toaster on May 15, 2011, 12:40:24 pm
I don't even stay up that late (I'm a heavy sleeper), but I did find that my best time to code is just before bed. Something about sleep? Maybe it's a Ballmer peak (http://xkcd.com/323/) of awareness.
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: ruler501 on May 15, 2011, 12:48:40 pm
I get much more done around 1-3am then any other times even if I'm alone. I wonder why this is.

It oo young to try a real balmer peak :P
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: SirCmpwn on May 15, 2011, 03:25:17 pm
Multithreading in KnightOS was conceived at 2 AM.
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: ruler501 on May 15, 2011, 03:27:28 pm
My dreams are crazier during the day, but they become very realistic at night letting me get them done
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: Iambian on May 15, 2011, 03:36:50 pm
Night is the only time of the day I can get any code done. I can try other parts of the day, but everything happens at night.
Title: Re: Can't beat midnight programming
Post by: ruler501 on May 15, 2011, 03:38:00 pm
It is not the fact that there is no distractions at night becasue I have times liek that in the day quite often. It is something else that lets code in the time period 0f 1-3am be the best fastest written code