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Re:Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming by chownie on Saturday November 23, 2019 @06:43AM (#21613641)
Being able to enter that state isn't reliable even for people who do it often. I've never been able to do it at work, it happens somewhat often when I'm doing home projects if my environment is suitably quiet.

I've found that I experience a kind of embarrassed reluctance to fully commit all my attention to something while I'm at work surrounded by people, that prevents it for me.

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Re:Things I’ve learned in 20 years of programming by StavrosK on Saturday November 23, 2019 @08:10AM (#21613927)
I get it reasonably often when I'm coding my projects late at night, when there's nobody there to bother me. The downside is that it messes with my sleep, since I'll start at midnight, write some code, think "okay I need to go to bed by 1 because I haven't been sleeping well" and I look and it's 5 am.
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