Re:Show HN: v0.1 of my book "Why programmers work at night"
by Zenst on Saturday November 17, 2012 @07:58PM
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Main reasons programmer work at night would be some or all of the following:
1) Access to resources - be that free internet, the home computer or faster internet.
2) TZ, its the internet and opearates on all TimeZones and with that people interact across timezones and with that night seems to always cover many cross-over times.
3) Distractions, there are less distractions, less noise and with that easier to focus.
4) Coffee overshoots, with that the late hours make productive time.
5) Whatever reason they want, code knows nothing about daylight.
As for the sample of your book I glanced upon I would wonder if any programmer would want to read it, and any manager who would gain from even a hint of insight into programmers, would not be motivated to pick such a title.
If anything it is more a chapter subject for a larger book on how to deal with modern persona's in a work enviroment.
That would be my approach, but my main reason for coding late at night is covered in all the above though less distractions being the primary. Now if you had a chapter on how to justify too your boss that you will be working weird hours, that would be something a programmer would be interested in.
1) Access to resources - be that free internet, the home computer or faster internet. 2) TZ, its the internet and opearates on all TimeZones and with that people interact across timezones and with that night seems to always cover many cross-over times. 3) Distractions, there are less distractions, less noise and with that easier to focus. 4) Coffee overshoots, with that the late hours make productive time. 5) Whatever reason they want, code knows nothing about daylight.
As for the sample of your book I glanced upon I would wonder if any programmer would want to read it, and any manager who would gain from even a hint of insight into programmers, would not be motivated to pick such a title.
If anything it is more a chapter subject for a larger book on how to deal with modern persona's in a work enviroment.
That would be my approach, but my main reason for coding late at night is covered in all the above though less distractions being the primary. Now if you had a chapter on how to justify too your boss that you will be working weird hours, that would be something a programmer would be interested in.