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When I could, I would go find some physical work to do such as organizing a network closet or a storeroom. About 15-30 minutes of activity would do the trick and wake me up plus I was still getting some work done. To bad I can't do that with the current job so I have to fall back on lots of coffee.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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It's usually the other way around.
I might fall asleep in front of my monitors, becoming aware of it when I awaken.
As an extremely morning person, this is always an afternoon event.
I get few visitors and so I suppose no one every notices.
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If convenient, I go home and take a nap.
Otherwise, a cup of tea or a Coke.
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Just as an aside -
The surest way to stay awake via nice steaming hot cup of tea or coffee is to spill it on your lap.
(120% effective)
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Also a good excuse to go home... and take a nap.
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I guess you don't have crazy management walking all over the place..if so then find a corner zzz.....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Years ago, when I was only 50, I bought a high back chair to the office so I can lay back and have a snooze after lunch. I like my power nap although the young whipper snappers are starting to call it my nanna nap.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I take a nap at the desk absolutely ignoring what other might think or say. Days when I come by car, I go to car and sleep. Generally it takes 10-15 minutes of nap to get active again.
There is anyways no point in me being sleepy and trying to be awake as I will anyways not be able to accomplish anything. I find it wrong to make body work when it is already signalling it needs rest to recover.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I have a room where I go to sleep when I need too. It's out of the way and so far I have not been noticed.
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Best advice I've heard for that moment you boss catches you napping is to raise your head and say "Amen"
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I have a little tape loop in my head recording sounds. If someone wakes me, I just refer to the loop for the last couple of minutes of sound and answer appropriately. I did this as a student during classes and apparently foiled instructors who were trying to catch me.
What gives me away is apparently some swelling around my eyes.
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I sleep for 8-10 minutes. That's usually enough to cure the zombiefication. If I sleep 20, when I wake it is disappointing to find that I am at work.
Before my thyroid issue got fixed I would get profoundly tired mid-day. Once, I fell asleep at the keyboard and awoke to find my finger on r. I had pages of the letter r in my documentation.
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honestly. I go to my car and take a short 15 minute nap. Or perhaps a short walk.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Is everyone ignoring studies that say a few minutes of sleep makes the rest of the day more productive, rather than trying to prop up one's eyelids and engage brain cells that don't want to cooperate? IBM gave us a few minutes twice a day for a break. I assume that rule is generally followed in most large, benevolent organizations.
So I can sleep while remaining upright with my hands on the keyboard, and it sometimes happens while I actually have code on the screen. Just make sure that you have the screen saver off, otherwise people will see you staring at a black screen and realize what's going on. I am well over 50, but did this even in my 20's, especially after a late night of dancing. Now, it's just a night of wishing I could fall back to sleep after going to the bathroom.
My boss suggested that I should go to my car for a quick nap, although the one time I tried it, some coworkers were taking a walk around the building, noticed me in the car and knocked on the window to make sure I was alright.
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Eat something every 2 hours (i.e. instead of "meals") and you'll be more "even" all day long.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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With bare-OS I mean the step, that Google is currently doing with ChromeOS.
You know, ChromeOS is capable of running Android Apps directly on the desktop, the current version even allows launching of Linux applications and the latest check-ins show signs of a cooperation, that ChromeOS might be capable of running native Windows-Applications in the future!
To look at this with abstract glasses, this means:
They seperated the "OS" layer from the "application" layer. The OS itself does nothing more than make the hardware work, but the apps you start, all run in their shells/vms/whatever, making the OS independant of the target platform of the running app.
If they make this step to the end, we could have Clash of clans running on the right monitor, while we ctrl-C/ctrl-V from google sheets to microsoft excel on the left monitor. In Background the linux version of Android Studio is running and waiting for my attention.
What do you think of such a step... Make an independant OS, that "runs everything"?
For me, personally, if the vulcan runtime is fully supported, and as soon as steam and battle.net work on ChromeOS, windows is history for me...
I don't mind much, whether I run the windows or the linux version of Android Studio, but "running" my App on ChromeOS "natively", as if I would press F5 in Visual Studio to start my windows app... sounds sweeeeeeeeet 
Share your thoughts!
Cheers Mike
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Googles recent thing with Android Apps running on Chrome O/S, also the lack of any new Tablets on the market. Makes me think the Android Tablet is coming to an end... 
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I like that. DOS was that way. And we had a lot of fun with it.
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The days of wine and roses! The computer was mine right down to its very soul. (+)
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And manuals of paper that had That smell...
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ChromeOS not rally goes with a separation-of-concerns ides... It simply contains the new Android Runtime (that replaces Java and Dalvik)...
And even so there are lot of problems of how hardware (missing hardware it is) should be handled...
Even you were able to manage to create an auto-loader, that automatically identifies the requested platform and loads the application inside a container with that platform, you still have the problem of the in-platform dependency...
What I'm saying, is that is nice dream, but while wrapping the OS is possible, it is far from being enough...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Damn - I Just thought you miss-spelled that and meant "bare A . . ."
Never mind. I'm disappointed enough as it is.
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Yeah. Bummer. 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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