Why do programmers work late at night? Three reasons

BySurat Lozowick

Many programmers do work until midnight, but at first glance it seems strange to see three reasons "Why are you going to purposely work late?" Is the startup founder and programmerSwizec TellerMr.Business InsiderI will explain with.

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◆ Schedule as Creator

ByYour Secret Admiral

One of the time schedules often found for programmers wakes up at 4 o'clock in the morning and ends some work before people start to work. And the other is to finish work at 4 o'clock in the morning.

Programmer and essayistPaul GrahamMr. in 2009, in this world mainly "management schedule" and "creator schedule"Two types of scheduleI wrote that there is. The former is a schedule used by people with strong power, it is an old-fashioned one that divides one day every hour, and although it is possible to spend several hours on one job as necessary, basically it is a job It changes every hour. And on the other hand, the creator's schedule divides the day by a minimum of half a day. It is a common schedule method for people who make things such as programmers and writers who can hardly work in one hour. According to Paul, programmers have the possibility to waste a whole day as well as that time if work is interrupted at meetings and so on.

Since the programmer works on the creator's schedule, I can not go to work unless I can not anticipate that work can be done for at least 2 to 3 hours without interruption. Actually Teller talked to a programmer who founded the company that they understood that many of them can not finish their work easily during the day. Work is interrupted constantly due to the occurrence of problems or simple e-mails, and the work ends at midnight when everyone else is sleeping.

◆ sleep of the brain

BySlworking 2

And programmers who did complicated work in the night do simple tasks during the day when they are heady. Why do programmers do complicated tasks that are spiritually exhausted on the night the brain wants to sleep, and if the brain is active and head-to-head during a simple task during the day, tiredness tells programmers It makes it an excellent coder. this isBallmer Peak(A phenomenon in which superhuman programming ability is demonstrated in the range of blood alcohol concentration from 0.129% to 0.138%), and concentrating power increases when the brain is tired.


Teller says that it seems to be the most inefficient work after drinking a lot of tea which is a general refreshing method or after taking energy drink in a short time. If you think that you checked Twitter when it became abnormally active, in the next momentHacker NewsLooking at it, she moves everywhere. This seems to be workable at first glance as energy increases with energy, but actually makes it difficult even to focus more than 2 seconds at once rather than raising mental power.

On the contrary, when you are a little tired you can write your code firmly with your back. If the brain is slightly tired, Teller can write code for hours without thinking Twitter or Facebook.

It seems to be like most programmers, said Teller. The programmer has intelligence for about 80% of the task. Even if you are working on the most sophisticated machine you can imagine, most jobs will simply process the data and it will be fine.

And when capacity is affordable, the brain looks for other things, but if you are tired you can concentrate because it fills with tasks at hand.

◆ Computer screen brightness

ByBellissimac

This is a simple thing, if you are staring at a bright light source at night you will be late for the sleep cycle and you will notice that it's 3 o'clock in the morning. And when I wake up at 11 o'clock in the morning, I have not been tired because it has only been a few hours since I got up evening evening.

If you do this kind of thing repeatedly, I will inevitably misplace in a different time zone from people. And, once you get accustomed to such a state once in an interesting way, it has been since that point.