Re:The Diminishing Returns of Multitasking
by thesz on Friday June 17, 2016 @08:24AM
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I think you should see different number of tabs/windows open for different problems.
There are things in you list that need communication with someone (web and apps - I'd wager they are underspecified). I think you do not need communication working on retro assembly.
I am working on IDE supporting two dirty old languages, VHDL and Verilog. I need three things opened: Visual Studio, PDF of standard under question and orthodox file manager [1] in the tests directory. Having internalized a great deal of VHDL, I do not need it's PDF opened too often. So, there are two things for me to work with: run tests in VS, occasionally look at problematic source code with OFM.
I also need a great deal of silence around me, otherwise I cannot concentrate deep enough to make good decisions and implementation of dirty old languages badly needs extremely good decisions.
There are things in you list that need communication with someone (web and apps - I'd wager they are underspecified). I think you do not need communication working on retro assembly.
I am working on IDE supporting two dirty old languages, VHDL and Verilog. I need three things opened: Visual Studio, PDF of standard under question and orthodox file manager [1] in the tests directory. Having internalized a great deal of VHDL, I do not need it's PDF opened too often. So, there are two things for me to work with: run tests in VS, occasionally look at problematic source code with OFM.
I also need a great deal of silence around me, otherwise I cannot concentrate deep enough to make good decisions and implementation of dirty old languages badly needs extremely good decisions.
[1] http://softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml