Poll: How late do you stay up?

Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by smakz on Thursday August 21, 2008 @05:07PM (#283163)

I'm a 10PM sleeper - the morning is a really under-appreciated hacking time. I've found, generally, that 12AM and later hacking sessions both aren't sustainable and aren't as productive as they seem at first glance. Plus, I'm usually so excited in the morning to get working that I have no trouble getting up (around 5am - 7 hours sleep) to start hacking.

Personally, when I was doing the 4AM hacking sessions, I was working on a million problems at once and trying to build rome in a day. Since switching to regular hours, I've learned to appreciate progress, small steps, and sustainable delivery, and have launched 3 side projects somewhat successfully (and higher quality).

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Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by auston on Thursday August 21, 2008 @05:23PM (#283181)

I too am a 10PM bed timer, only recently though, it forces me to use the time before bed more productively.

Before I would waste time browsing news.yc, digg, watching videos and reading blogs/news.

Now I try to catch up on blogs whenever I have the chance and place more attention of developing stuff.

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Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by bobdobbs on Thursday August 21, 2008 @08:51PM (#283347)

Just out of interest; how old were you when you switched to 10PM ?

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Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by auston on Thursday August 21, 2008 @10:51PM (#283417)

I am 21 now. I switched a little over 2 weeks ago.

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Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by gizmo on Friday August 22, 2008 @07:31AM (#283600)

What happened to your social life?

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Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by auston on Friday August 22, 2008 @09:19PM (#284384)

Well, to answer your question, not much.

3 out of 4 days Im home around 530. I skateboarding or play basketball with friends for about an hour, eat dinner around 7.

Ill then get down to writing code til around 10, then troll blogs/yc for 15 minutes, shower and end up hitting the sack around 10:30 - 10:45.

Then there is pillow talk with my gf, which probably the pinnacle of my 'social life'. Then Ive got the weekends to hang with friends and stuff.

Does that satisfy your curiousity?

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Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by gizmo on Friday August 22, 2008 @09:33PM (#284392)

Thanks for the response. I wasn't curious for specifics, I was thinking about the tradeoff between productive and being social in general. That by optimizing your hours for productivity you might lose out on a lot of other stuff.

Glad it works out for you.

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Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by unalone on Friday August 22, 2008 @10:53AM (#283732)

Social life starts way before 10PM. Not everything social is a late-night party.

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Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by gizmo on Friday August 22, 2008 @11:25AM (#283773)

You miss out on parties, but that's not all. Because sleeping just after dinner is unhealthy (it becomes the equivalent of the late night snack) you also have to move dinner forward to something like 5pm or 6pm. Result - you won't be able to eat with friends anymore.

When you go to bed at 10pm you don't just trade a few night hours for morning hours, your entire schedule has to shift. Don't think that's worth it.

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Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by sc on Friday August 22, 2008 @11:58AM (#283811)

No one has to eat the early-bird special because they get a good night's sleep. Listen to your individual body, not the generalized recommendations of others.

A normal 10pm bedtime does not preclude late nights now and then, anyhow.

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Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by icco on Friday August 22, 2008 @12:57PM (#283879)

I switched over when I recently got a new job. I need to be up at 5:30 to get to work on time, and if I don't got to bed by 10, the next day sucks. Friday, and Saturday though I tend to stay up later.

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Re:Poll: How late do you stay up? by ScottWhigham on Thursday August 21, 2008 @05:39PM (#283190)

When I tell people that I wake up usually around 3-4 in the morning, they think that it's from my alarm clock. It often is but at least 1/5 of the time it's because, like you said, I'm just pumped about doing something I'm excited about. "Gotta get that proposal together" or "I need to finish the code on the shopping cart module"...

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