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Re:What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer by derping69 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @01:05PM (#15059178)
>No amount of control of my environment will put me in the zone when I'm working on boring code.

adderall

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Re:What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer by atemerev on Sunday August 20, 2017 @03:10PM (#15059793)
As an ADD person who has to take it regularly, I can say that it can just easily focus you on replying to anything of interest on Hacker News... so no, doesn't work this way.
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Re:What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer by derping69 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @08:12PM (#15061014)
Yeah I've lived it. You have to get to work right away so when it kicks in otherwise you'll generally keep doing whatever you were doing when it did. It can turn you into a god of productivity if you use it right or a degenerate jacking off for 12 hours straight.
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Re:What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer by dustinls on Sunday August 20, 2017 @05:32PM (#15060351)
Adderall just allows someone with ADD to get their thoughts from their head to the screen without the house of cards collapsing somewhere in between.
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Re:What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer by ikeyany on Sunday August 20, 2017 @02:02PM (#15059459)
I imagine far more people just get high.
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Re:What it feels like to be in the zone as a programmer by ge96 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @03:22PM (#15059835)
Time to sit down for 11 hours and learn 5/6, weeks of diffeq for an exam. Eyes burning. Member disappearing into my body. Digestive system not functioning.

But then it's done. And then you forget all the mass information you absorbed and shat out onto a page.

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