Comments on: Advice for the Struggling Programmer http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/advice-for-the-struggling-programmer/ programming for the fun of it Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:42:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Patrick http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/advice-for-the-struggling-programmer/#comment-2267 Patrick Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:31:07 +0000 http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/advice-for-the-struggling-programmer/#comment-2267 <p>Sleeping has always been tough for me because I'm considered a night owl and for years I've enjoyed the night... mind you, this all was really aided by a job I took out of high school where I worked the graveyard shift. I suppose it's stuck with me ever since.</p> <p>There are studies galore on the values of adequate sleep and I'm only now beginning to understand it. But I still find myself fighting the urge and think to myself, "I can't go to sleep now! The answer to my problem is just minutes away...", yet I'm exhausted and those minutes then turn into hours, ad infinitum until I just drop. Sure enough, by the first half of the next day following substantial rest, that solution I was looking for usually comes to me spontaneously as if out of mid-air or by magic.</p> <p>Well made point Rob.</p> Sleeping has always been tough for me because I’m considered a night owl and for years I’ve enjoyed the night… mind you, this all was really aided by a job I took out of high school where I worked the graveyard shift. I suppose it’s stuck with me ever since.

There are studies galore on the values of adequate sleep and I’m only now beginning to understand it. But I still find myself fighting the urge and think to myself, “I can’t go to sleep now! The answer to my problem is just minutes away…”, yet I’m exhausted and those minutes then turn into hours, ad infinitum until I just drop. Sure enough, by the first half of the next day following substantial rest, that solution I was looking for usually comes to me spontaneously as if out of mid-air or by magic.

Well made point Rob.

]]> By: wakes http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/advice-for-the-struggling-programmer/#comment-2146 wakes Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:26:41 +0000 http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/advice-for-the-struggling-programmer/#comment-2146 <p>I completely agree. Infact this morning I got woken up part way through a dream where I was actually resolving the problem. I guess all the other times this 'brilliant inspiration' has happened I've just remembered the solution when I woke up, just not the dream..</p> <p>I've always liked the idea of an alarm clock which wakes you gently just as you're leaving your dreaming phase/REM sleep just to see if you can nod back off and do the whole lucid dreaming thing easily.</p> I completely agree. Infact this morning I got woken up part way through a dream where I was actually resolving the problem. I guess all the other times this ‘brilliant inspiration’ has happened I’ve just remembered the solution when I woke up, just not the dream..

I’ve always liked the idea of an alarm clock which wakes you gently just as you’re leaving your dreaming phase/REM sleep just to see if you can nod back off and do the whole lucid dreaming thing easily.

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