that's new, debugging in my sleep
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It was 7:44 AM, my eyes roared as a slit of light hit them, beaming from the only visible thing in that direction, the alarm clock. "Another 16 full minutes of sleep" said a small voice in my head. Turned out that those 16 minutes, would enlighten me, and the proceeding day, to a whole new level. It wasn't 1 minute past, when my eyes started to move, rapidly. In my dream, there were no characters, no people, no houses or trees, but a thing most familiar to me, my code. Franticly scrolling before my eyes, was the code of a project I was working on, a project that I was about to present in a mere 1 hour and 45 minutes. Suddenly the scrolling stopped. A breakpoint was added and after a swift compilation and execution.. i saw it. Thanks to my dream, I corrected a grave mistake that I would not have spotted otherwise. And a whole new to me, debugging in my sleep.
Ericos Georgiades
Done this since I was 18, the more exciting and complex the project the more chances of me waking up around 3am ish to start thinking about the code :rolleyes:, dam I need to get some sleep :zzz::zzz::zzz:
.net is a box of never ending treasures, every day I get found another gem.
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It was 7:44 AM, my eyes roared as a slit of light hit them, beaming from the only visible thing in that direction, the alarm clock. "Another 16 full minutes of sleep" said a small voice in my head. Turned out that those 16 minutes, would enlighten me, and the proceeding day, to a whole new level. It wasn't 1 minute past, when my eyes started to move, rapidly. In my dream, there were no characters, no people, no houses or trees, but a thing most familiar to me, my code. Franticly scrolling before my eyes, was the code of a project I was working on, a project that I was about to present in a mere 1 hour and 45 minutes. Suddenly the scrolling stopped. A breakpoint was added and after a swift compilation and execution.. i saw it. Thanks to my dream, I corrected a grave mistake that I would not have spotted otherwise. And a whole new to me, debugging in my sleep.
Ericos Georgiades
Its better than dreaming that your flying, I constantly sleep with a pen and paper next my bed, as I will wake up in the middle of the night with solutions to problems that I might have, and if I don't write it down immediately I forgot it by morning
He who laughs last is a bit on the slow side
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Done this since I was 18, the more exciting and complex the project the more chances of me waking up around 3am ish to start thinking about the code :rolleyes:, dam I need to get some sleep :zzz::zzz::zzz:
.net is a box of never ending treasures, every day I get found another gem.
I've woken up many times to write code, but this was a first for me to actually dream of debugging, and in the dream i realized my mistake. And when i compiled for real, it reacted the same way as in my dream. I was blown away by the fact that i had a dream of something i wouldn't be able to realize consciously. Alas, the greatest compiler, the human brain.
Ericos Georgiades
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It was 7:44 AM, my eyes roared as a slit of light hit them, beaming from the only visible thing in that direction, the alarm clock. "Another 16 full minutes of sleep" said a small voice in my head. Turned out that those 16 minutes, would enlighten me, and the proceeding day, to a whole new level. It wasn't 1 minute past, when my eyes started to move, rapidly. In my dream, there were no characters, no people, no houses or trees, but a thing most familiar to me, my code. Franticly scrolling before my eyes, was the code of a project I was working on, a project that I was about to present in a mere 1 hour and 45 minutes. Suddenly the scrolling stopped. A breakpoint was added and after a swift compilation and execution.. i saw it. Thanks to my dream, I corrected a grave mistake that I would not have spotted otherwise. And a whole new to me, debugging in my sleep.
Ericos Georgiades
Tell this to your employer, and get yourself a nice bed and pillows at work, so that you can sleep. Apparently, the more you sleep the more productive you are :-D Btw this theory is so true, I have got solutions to so many problems in my dreams and they turn out to be precise. Something to do with sub-conscious mind or the kind, which works out the problem for you (Read it somewhere a while ago..)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero ப்ரம்மா
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Its better than dreaming that your flying, I constantly sleep with a pen and paper next my bed, as I will wake up in the middle of the night with solutions to problems that I might have, and if I don't write it down immediately I forgot it by morning
He who laughs last is a bit on the slow side
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Tell this to your employer, and get yourself a nice bed and pillows at work, so that you can sleep. Apparently, the more you sleep the more productive you are :-D Btw this theory is so true, I have got solutions to so many problems in my dreams and they turn out to be precise. Something to do with sub-conscious mind or the kind, which works out the problem for you (Read it somewhere a while ago..)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero ப்ரம்மா
brahmma wrote:
Read it somewhere a while ago..
read it, or dreamt about it ? :P
Ericos Georgiades
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brahmma wrote:
Read it somewhere a while ago..
read it, or dreamt about it ? :P
Ericos Georgiades
ad3z wrote:
read it, or dreamt about it ?
Nah, actually read it.. :java: Had I dreamt of it, I would be remembering the whole thing better :-D
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero ப்ரம்மா
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saltcode wrote:
how do can i:(( handle procrastination?
Let me sleep on it. :laugh::laugh:
He who laughs last is a bit on the slow side
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NeroToxic wrote:
Let me sleep on it.
:laugh:
.net is a box of never ending treasures, every day I get found another gem.
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Tell this to your employer, and get yourself a nice bed and pillows at work, so that you can sleep. Apparently, the more you sleep the more productive you are :-D Btw this theory is so true, I have got solutions to so many problems in my dreams and they turn out to be precise. Something to do with sub-conscious mind or the kind, which works out the problem for you (Read it somewhere a while ago..)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero ப்ரம்மா
brahmma wrote:
Apparently, the more you sleep the more productive you are
Within limits - if you sleep 23.9 hours a day you won't get much done at work!
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It was 7:44 AM, my eyes roared as a slit of light hit them, beaming from the only visible thing in that direction, the alarm clock. "Another 16 full minutes of sleep" said a small voice in my head. Turned out that those 16 minutes, would enlighten me, and the proceeding day, to a whole new level. It wasn't 1 minute past, when my eyes started to move, rapidly. In my dream, there were no characters, no people, no houses or trees, but a thing most familiar to me, my code. Franticly scrolling before my eyes, was the code of a project I was working on, a project that I was about to present in a mere 1 hour and 45 minutes. Suddenly the scrolling stopped. A breakpoint was added and after a swift compilation and execution.. i saw it. Thanks to my dream, I corrected a grave mistake that I would not have spotted otherwise. And a whole new to me, debugging in my sleep.
Ericos Georgiades
was when the day before the exam I was dreaming about the COBOL code I had to write the following day. I had that nightmare twice, both times I past the exam and after graduation I never wrote a single letter of COBOL anymore...
V. I found a living worth working for, but haven't found work worth living for.
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It was 7:44 AM, my eyes roared as a slit of light hit them, beaming from the only visible thing in that direction, the alarm clock. "Another 16 full minutes of sleep" said a small voice in my head. Turned out that those 16 minutes, would enlighten me, and the proceeding day, to a whole new level. It wasn't 1 minute past, when my eyes started to move, rapidly. In my dream, there were no characters, no people, no houses or trees, but a thing most familiar to me, my code. Franticly scrolling before my eyes, was the code of a project I was working on, a project that I was about to present in a mere 1 hour and 45 minutes. Suddenly the scrolling stopped. A breakpoint was added and after a swift compilation and execution.. i saw it. Thanks to my dream, I corrected a grave mistake that I would not have spotted otherwise. And a whole new to me, debugging in my sleep.
Ericos Georgiades
Hmm, I'm trying to loose that feature from my brain as it sometimes kept me from sleeping well. Also this feature was getting worse and worse during a project. Luckely it's going better the last few weeks as there's not a lot I need to take care of. Gotta love teammates and a separate QA team :D
WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson
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It was 7:44 AM, my eyes roared as a slit of light hit them, beaming from the only visible thing in that direction, the alarm clock. "Another 16 full minutes of sleep" said a small voice in my head. Turned out that those 16 minutes, would enlighten me, and the proceeding day, to a whole new level. It wasn't 1 minute past, when my eyes started to move, rapidly. In my dream, there were no characters, no people, no houses or trees, but a thing most familiar to me, my code. Franticly scrolling before my eyes, was the code of a project I was working on, a project that I was about to present in a mere 1 hour and 45 minutes. Suddenly the scrolling stopped. A breakpoint was added and after a swift compilation and execution.. i saw it. Thanks to my dream, I corrected a grave mistake that I would not have spotted otherwise. And a whole new to me, debugging in my sleep.
Ericos Georgiades
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It was 7:44 AM, my eyes roared as a slit of light hit them, beaming from the only visible thing in that direction, the alarm clock. "Another 16 full minutes of sleep" said a small voice in my head. Turned out that those 16 minutes, would enlighten me, and the proceeding day, to a whole new level. It wasn't 1 minute past, when my eyes started to move, rapidly. In my dream, there were no characters, no people, no houses or trees, but a thing most familiar to me, my code. Franticly scrolling before my eyes, was the code of a project I was working on, a project that I was about to present in a mere 1 hour and 45 minutes. Suddenly the scrolling stopped. A breakpoint was added and after a swift compilation and execution.. i saw it. Thanks to my dream, I corrected a grave mistake that I would not have spotted otherwise. And a whole new to me, debugging in my sleep.
Ericos Georgiades
I suspect many of us have done this, certainly I have.
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I know a few programmers who are more valuable to the company when they are sleeping. :laugh:
Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
can you please hire me? if you don't i'll blow your desk to pieces. (inside joke)
Ericos Georgiades
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You find yourself in the wrong profession, we pride ourselves on punctuality ;P
He who laughs last is a bit on the slow side
Hey, speak for yourself. One of the benefits of contracting is working your own hours. And procrastination can be your friend at times. Nothing like getting pro-active and finishing something early to learn its been canned.
This statement was never false.
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It was 7:44 AM, my eyes roared as a slit of light hit them, beaming from the only visible thing in that direction, the alarm clock. "Another 16 full minutes of sleep" said a small voice in my head. Turned out that those 16 minutes, would enlighten me, and the proceeding day, to a whole new level. It wasn't 1 minute past, when my eyes started to move, rapidly. In my dream, there were no characters, no people, no houses or trees, but a thing most familiar to me, my code. Franticly scrolling before my eyes, was the code of a project I was working on, a project that I was about to present in a mere 1 hour and 45 minutes. Suddenly the scrolling stopped. A breakpoint was added and after a swift compilation and execution.. i saw it. Thanks to my dream, I corrected a grave mistake that I would not have spotted otherwise. And a whole new to me, debugging in my sleep.
Ericos Georgiades
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It was 7:44 AM, my eyes roared as a slit of light hit them, beaming from the only visible thing in that direction, the alarm clock. "Another 16 full minutes of sleep" said a small voice in my head. Turned out that those 16 minutes, would enlighten me, and the proceeding day, to a whole new level. It wasn't 1 minute past, when my eyes started to move, rapidly. In my dream, there were no characters, no people, no houses or trees, but a thing most familiar to me, my code. Franticly scrolling before my eyes, was the code of a project I was working on, a project that I was about to present in a mere 1 hour and 45 minutes. Suddenly the scrolling stopped. A breakpoint was added and after a swift compilation and execution.. i saw it. Thanks to my dream, I corrected a grave mistake that I would not have spotted otherwise. And a whole new to me, debugging in my sleep.
Ericos Georgiades
The one part of software engineering that gets annoying is once I get into a project, my mind is constantly designing, debugging, etc.. I've solved many a problem in my sleep or doing some entirely unrelated activity. Having said that, a few years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with the perfect solution to a problem I was wresting with. The next day, I quickly started implementing this brilliant idea. It soon became apparent that it was actually one of the dumbest ideas ever; not only didn't it solve the problem, it did so in a very complicated way and would have introduced even more problems.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke