How do programmers relax?
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Either coding for fun in a better environment than work (kicked back in an easy chair with classic rock playing in the background) Or Vegas, baby!
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I wonder how you can relax by watching a screen after spending hours watching one! ;P
Rahul Sindhu
The difference is you dont interact with the later, it does all the job for you and you can relax just watching and eventually falling asleep. The best for me
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
gotta be movies, and when not movies i like to go carp fishing and sometimes just a mad drive to know where and back is good. especially if something is really screwing with my head
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Hey, I have two kids and I actually relax programming :-)
Alberto Bencivenni devDept
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Go get some tibits to eat or make myself a sandwich.
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Just to take care of my vegetable garden... :-D
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Play with my pet... until I get mad of all the scratching!
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Hah.. I like the write more code response... Yup.. I guess that would be me as well. After coding for work all day, it is nice to code something that is more along the lines of fun coding, or self benificial. Besides that I like doing physical things that gets me off of the chair like 16 ounce curls at the local pub. Oh, wait bar stool.. hmmm.. I usually stand up or shoot pool... :-D
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
I take a weekend on the farm, no electricity, no tech. just beer, sun and beautiful landscapes.
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Hiking in the Rockys or running on the open praire for hours. :) nothing better than swapping out mental exercise/work for pyshical exercise.
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _______________________________________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Computers are so strange, you just yawn good and proper and they've got something new out! R. A.
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Do Any thing but think .. even try to do stupid things . watch cartoons . any thing doesnt envolve brain work :laugh:
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Programming isn't hard work; anyone who thinks it is should try something else. Stressful, perhaps, but not hard work. So... to de-stress... napping, sitting on the back patio watching the wildlife, reading, all of the above.
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Depends how much you want to spend. You could buy something cheap, ready to fly for 100USD, or you could buy anything up to a twin gas turbine F-18 for 20,000USD. Depends how much your crappy software development job pays. LOL.
ditchit wrote:
You could buy something cheap, ready to fly for 100USD, or you could buy anything up to a twin gas turbine F-18 for 20,000USD
You have to be hooked up to shell out that sum for F-18. ;) I would definitely be looking at the lower range (hence I said crappy) just to try. Thanks.
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Programming isn't hard work; anyone who thinks it is should try something else. Stressful, perhaps, but not hard work. So... to de-stress... napping, sitting on the back patio watching the wildlife, reading, all of the above.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Programming isn't hard work; anyone who thinks it is should try something else. Stressful, perhaps, but not hard work.
Depends. If it's a long day (overtime) and you have some really tough problem to solve... I know it tires me and when I'm done I don't want anything that requires me to analyze and solve problems, so no computer games, no reading. And because my eyes are tired as well, no TV. What I prefer on such days is to take a walk outside.
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
I only program when I'm relaxed. Programming for me is a creative process that needs the right combination of inspiration and energy. To prepare, I wash dishes putting myself into a Zen state, then, after the right amount of green tea and staring at the trees, I begin. I enter a time-less dimension where I sit until the code has finished writing itself and, in these times, I become a mere observer watching my fingers fly across the keyboard. The rest of the time, I fill the void with online Bridge and Poker. One teaches problem solving & communications and the other patience. I recently disconnected the cable because it was not conducive to clear thinking. Keeping current also takes up much spare time. I am only stressed when I as NOT writing code. I call this my "design" phase, where, I have to wait for inspiration to hit. At these times, I will walk along the nearby bike path taking pictures of the local plants. I think I'm what young people call "old". -- Will.
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Consuming large volumes of ethanol while throwing pointy objects at a remote round board on the wall works well. Whacking a white ball with a stick in apparently random directions which sometimes results in multi-colored balls falling into randdom pockets attached to the side of a felt-covered table also relieves stress. But you can't beat kicking the daylights out of large red belt on a padded floor for sheer relaxation. Sometimes they kick back, though; gotta watch your back. On weekends I like to sit on the porch watching the doves fight over the feed I put out for them, while decorating the pigeons who dare to intrude with colorful bits of plastic attached to 5" hardened wire spikes and propelled by compressed air. When I run out of pigeons - they do eventually learn - I like to play with steel, cutting and grinding, welding and grinding some more, to make things that would probably be cheaper to buy. But it is far less satisfying to buy than to make it myself, and that has a regenerative power in itself. When the power is out and I can't play with power tools, putzing around in the yard, tending the flowers and grading the yard with a rake is extraordinarily relaxing, and it wears me out enough to sleep deeply. But then, I'm not a programmer; I'm an engineer who sometimes programs. Maybe that makes a difference.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
large red belt on a padded floor
I'm afraid I'm drawing a blank on this one... :doh: hint?
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Consuming large volumes of ethanol while throwing pointy objects at a remote round board on the wall works well. Whacking a white ball with a stick in apparently random directions which sometimes results in multi-colored balls falling into randdom pockets attached to the side of a felt-covered table also relieves stress. But you can't beat kicking the daylights out of large red belt on a padded floor for sheer relaxation. Sometimes they kick back, though; gotta watch your back. On weekends I like to sit on the porch watching the doves fight over the feed I put out for them, while decorating the pigeons who dare to intrude with colorful bits of plastic attached to 5" hardened wire spikes and propelled by compressed air. When I run out of pigeons - they do eventually learn - I like to play with steel, cutting and grinding, welding and grinding some more, to make things that would probably be cheaper to buy. But it is far less satisfying to buy than to make it myself, and that has a regenerative power in itself. When the power is out and I can't play with power tools, putzing around in the yard, tending the flowers and grading the yard with a rake is extraordinarily relaxing, and it wears me out enough to sleep deeply. But then, I'm not a programmer; I'm an engineer who sometimes programs. Maybe that makes a difference.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Also, doves and pigeons are the same species. :laugh: So really you just like the white ones. :P
“Time and space can be a bitch.” –Gushie, Quantum Leap {o,o}.oO( Looking for a great RSS reader? Try FeedBeast! ) |)””’) Built with home-grown CodeProject components! -”-”-
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
This is the eeeeeeeeeeasy way: Go to the wine store and buy 5 liters of wine. Drink it within 30 minutes. But one word of caution. In case you still look at codes, don't look at VB.NET, you might start to throw up. If you have to look at coding, make sure it is C#.NET - but nothing will make sense. It will all appear to look like Linux when being sober. You will also relax the next day, or better said you will have no choice but to relax.