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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by stickfigure on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:39AM (#12814067)
A thousand times this. I remember staying up late to finish programming problems when I was young (and stupid). Now I find the most effective way of solving hard programming problems is to spend an afternoon attacking it and then go to sleep at a normal hour. Magically, an elegant solution - usually quite different from work in progress - appears in my brain while I'm showering.

I do my best work while sleeping, I just need to figure out how to bill for it.

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by arethuza on Friday October 28, 2016 @07:51AM (#12814899)
Agreed - for really hard problems I've never found that pounding away directly is effective. I load up on the required information and then intentionally go and do something else (ironically cooking seem to does it for me but overnight and in shower also works) and out of nowhere a solution will appear.
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