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      Gotta have something to say in stand-up the next morning, otherwise your PM will assign you another task.

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      How many times did I push at 2am so I could go home, get to the freeway entrance, realized I fucked something up, sighed, and turned around to go back and fix it…

      (This was like 1999, we didn’t have access to Perforce from home).

      After a year or so I realized I should just develop the willpower to check it in after sleeping on it.

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    “No, wait, it’s not what you think! There’s a continuous integration system, a commit would’ve triggered a new build! It might have paged the oncall! Babe! The test suite has been flaky lately!

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      That’s actually not that rare when I work later than usual. Some stupid problem my brain is too fried to solve. Eventually I give up, feeling defeat for the whole evening and solve the problem in 10 mins the next morning. Get enough sleep, people.

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        However, much research shows the hand banging against the wall period is required for you to achieve the morning breakthrough.

        The sleeping break is where your neurons form new connections based their activity yesterday. The “thinking hard” and the frustration is a required part of the morning epiphany.

        God I love programming.

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    commit history was how I determined when to do the nightly and big weekend backups for a place I admined at one point. It was so annoying that we had one developer that liked to stay up way late and one that like to get up way the fuck early. Thank god they were all colocated at that point in time. If they had different timezones I would have just had to say eff it and let them have some poorer preformance.

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    Honey, I was reviewing the new interns pull request. She was having a real hard time. We kept pushing and pulling until we eventually found ourselves getting that commit all over the codebase. Needless to say it won’t happen again, it was a one night standing review.