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From: Lars Duening <lars@bearnip.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:48:59 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Joel Palmtag wrote on Tuesday, January 08 2002, 15:31:07:
> (some starters, if you've got other's, please respond with those
> as well.) How to take care of Marathon Coding, what kind of foods
> to eat (it's really hard to stay alert if all you've been eating
> are snack foods for 18 hours), what kind of versioning to use.
As far as Marathon Coding is concerned: don't. After a certain
number of hours one's code quality deteriorates far too much to make
it worthwile.
Personally I can get more done when I deliberately take the time to
cook and eat real food, exercise, sleep, goof off with friends -
that kind of things. I may have less time left for coding, but I am
much more productive during that time, and more importantly I'm far
less prone to experience burnout.
Foodwise I (try to) eat normal healthy light food at normal
times. Munchies while programming I usually battle with lots of diet
Code and mint tea :-)
The decision whether to make it part- or fulltime depends on your
circumstances. Important is the will and discipline to stick to your
project for long time, and get a decent amount of work done every
week. If that is then five hours per week or 40 is a minor detail.
--
Lars Duening; lars@bearnip.com
PGP Key: http://www.bearnip.com/lars/pgp-lars.asc
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