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..going crazy. It's the moment when you sip your morning in the coffee, wondering whether yesterday was real, or just a dream. For every day of the week.
All those people bragging about needing no sleep; if you are deprived of it, you're no longer functional.
Find a touchstone.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: sip your morning in the coffee
Or, it's the moment when you switch words around and speak incoherently. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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While being sober.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Sober-ish...
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
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With some people that's all you can hope for.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Thank you, I can use the understanding.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Sleep drunk.
For days.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Be careful. No one knew I drank until I showed up sober one day.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I don't drink; enough meds to prevent me from becoming a drunk.
Still, doesn't seem to be much difference. (Confused and happy)
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It's not incoherently!!
..is it?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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ZurdoDev wrote:
Or, it's the moment when you switch words around and speak incoherently.
Or, it's the moment when you switch words around and speak coherently?
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Thanks for the tip; not a title I would ever pick, since it sounds a bit new-agey self-help stuff. Since chakra's aren't mentioned in the intro, I'll give it a try 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Is spyware Julian Assange's laptop?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I thought that was beardware these days. 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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just another over the top greeny that can't read,
thought he was going through an Eco Door,
got lost in the territory of a republic most notably known for it's banana's.
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Virus that brought up? There's scan-t reason to start a add to his image by starting a tiff in the lounge.
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And I always thought it was the tuxedo James Bond wore!
My wife believes in aliens, dreams and is highly superstitious. Proof positive that opposites attract.
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Until recently, I was working a 4-day week, each day being 10 hours long to make up the standard 40-hour week. I completed all my projects on time and no loss of productivity ensued. Actually, since I invariably made dentist, doctors, etc. appointments always on my days off there was less unscheduled time off.
I am now working a 34-hour week which counts a full-time or part-time depending upon who you ask.
However, the days are 7, 7, 7, 7 and 6 hours (on Friday) and I was thinking of seeing if I can change this to four 8.5-hour days - unlikely to happen as it is the government and they have pretty fixed rules.
This makes me wonder how many organisations could switch to four day weeks without any loss of productivity, and perhaps an increase?
Even those who work from home may benefit from an extra day they are not required to answer the telephone.
How would you feel about such a change to your schedule?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I remember when 4 day weeks (7.5/8 hour days) were touted by governments (Euro & Aus) as being good for the workers, although their real intent was to boost employment.
Many companies that tried it found the employees got just as much work done in the 4 days as they used to perform in 5 days, few different reasons:
- employees had a day to get their other stuff done, so not distracted (or taking sickies)
- employees worried the other guy that fills in may replace them worked that little bit harder.
... (commonly considered more likely previously they stretched the same [target] amount of work to 5 days.)
- blah blah whole bunch more "expert" analysis
downsides
- for "customer service" staff no choice, employers needed people to fill those days
- the boost to employment ended up to be bugger all, so govt stopped talking about it
.... ('yes it's good for the voters, but not for us so who gives a sh*t')
yes it's proven to be a damn good idea ...
but mostly because [higher skilled positions] the boss wants you on hand all the time, to ask stupid questions, or be there for 'emergencies' (customers asking hard questions) they generally don't like to offer it.
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10 hours a day is not good, especially by the time you've added two journeys and lunch to it (if you're lucky enough to get a lunch break).
I used to do it 7 days a week and quite frankly, it was a living hell:
Wake up
Quick splash
Catch train
Program bloody computers for 10 hours
Catch train
Pray off-license would still be open by the time the train arrived so you could have half-an-hour of beer-time
Go to sleep
Repeat ad nauseum until burn-out
Monumentally unproductive!
Now, granted, it would feel a little different if there was three day weekend coming rather than no weekend at all, but to be honest the last two or three hours of the shift would rarely produce anything useful. I'd be tired, my head would screaming through eyestrain and I'd pretty much lost the will to live by then.
Assuming your actually working flat out, 7 hours is about the max for a genuinely productive day's coding.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I ended up arranging mine to work every other day, working Sunday and Monday together with Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday off. My commute was short and the lunch hour was included in the ten hours and consisted of a sandwich or something at my desk.
I kept it up for five years without any real issues.
Seven days a week is nuts even for 7 hour days.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I'd find every other day a bit weird, I think, but maybe I could adapt to it.
Did you find that you were never really switching off at the "weekend", though? It's good to have those two straight days ...
And, yes, 7 days is many miles beyond stupid, I just had a PHB who thought otherwise at the time (needless to say, he was more than happy to bugger off hours before the rest of us and we never saw him at the weekend).
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Of course you burned out. 10 hour days 7 days a week is 70 hours + commute time.
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