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- eebeelive, on 08/17/2008, -2/+65works for me
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -1/+44in denmark my anc estral home country as well as other european nations people take months lon g summer breaks
this 9 to 5 50 weeks a year is very destructive - BebopBlues, on 08/17/2008, -2/+33After a good sleep I'll come back with a clever comment.
- ap44, on 08/17/2008, -4/+31How do you figure sleeping in is lazy? Or are you just pissed cause you can't?
- ap44, on 08/17/2008, -4/+25***** do I love sleep. I hate how people see sleeping in as a sign of laziness. ***** those people.
- headzoo, on 08/17/2008, -4/+25Penn & Teller ***** episode on sleep:
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFEPRYdzWhQ
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqb8n1fB7iU
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4in5V2YcXQ
Of course their scientist say 8 hours of sleep or more a night is bad for your health. - inactive, on 08/17/2008, -1/+21I guess I'm the exception. The only thing more sleep does for me is want to sleep more. It makes me tired and unmotivated. 8 hours is a good amount.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -2/+20only 2 weeks holiday a year?? I'm pretty sure that's illegal in the EU!
- sweeney24, on 08/17/2008, -3/+21I love sleep!
- CaptainHarlock, on 08/17/2008, -4/+21Nothing like being a slave to man's own invention. Clocks are evil and control us all. Look out Sun, you're next!
- Rotzooi, on 08/17/2008, -0/+16The article (as do many other publications) postulates this is not the case - different people need different schedules, even if they need the same total amount of sleep. 10PM-6AM is great for one person, but terrible for another, who might be better suited to a 2AM-10PM routine.
- Balloondoggies, on 08/17/2008, -3/+182am-10pm? 20 hours sleep is good for some people? are they cats?
- EarlOfLade, on 08/17/2008, -1/+16For the past 10 years I have worked for a large corporation and have slept in every day. I normally wake up by myself around 10-11AM, turn on some news, make some coffee,check Digg and have a relaxing start to the day before I log on to work. No commuting, no stress, working outside by the pool is nice.
I would kill if someone set off an alarm clock at 6AM. - HallenbeckJoe, on 08/17/2008, -0/+14and there's a reason why!
- lisaawesome, on 08/17/2008, -1/+14Over the years I have noticed when I am able to have the night owl schedule I prefer I am overall far more productive and I hit a great production peak around 3am. When I am forced to be up every morning no matter what kind of sleep I did or did not got I will be sluggish all day and I get very little actually done.
- Rotzooi, on 08/17/2008, -8/+20***** yeah, a pair of magicians will teach us everything we need to know about scientific subjects! USA! USA!
- xerigen, on 08/17/2008, -7/+19Haha, and I was just made fun of for waking up at 2:45 PM today. In your face, naysayers! Enjoy the morning weirdos!
- tbhurst, on 08/17/2008, -4/+15I knew it!
- BugMeNot2, on 08/17/2008, -2/+12If you go to sleep at 12 AM and wake up at 8 AM, it's basically the same as going to sleep at 10 PM and waking at 6 AM, right?
- eltardo, on 08/17/2008, -2/+12If you do some diggin online, you'll see numerous sites that suggest 7 to 7.5 is the ideal number of sleep hours, consistency of course being the key. You sleep cycles is a direct reflection with the stress levels in your life I've found. If you're a tense person, you don't generally sleep as soundly as someone that is more at ease. (common sense?)
Sleeping in 10-11-12 hours only makes me feel lazy, and wish i'd woken earlier so I'd accomplished more with my day, but maybe that's just me. - inactive, on 08/17/2008, -3/+12I think that cat makes the point very effectively. No one sleeps in more than cats, and cats rule the frickin' world.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -0/+9I'm the same age as you. XD
*you're - Bamboolemur, on 08/17/2008, -2/+10I have central sleep apnea, a rare form of sleep apnea. This means that while I get 8 or even 10 hours of sleep a day, I get 0 hours of proper, REM, restive sleep. What the hell does that mean?
My memory is horrible, my learning curve is huge, I fall asleep after a few minutes of reading a book and feel horrible permanently. That's why I always try to keep myself active and my mind busy, because as soon as I sit down, the fatigue hits me.
Conclusion: get your ***** 8 hours of quality sleep. DO IT. - spectecjr, on 08/18/2008, -0/+8Here's some stats for you:
http://www.nightowlnet.com/archive07.htm
A recent Chicago Tribune article on a night-owl study indicates that 41% of the population of the US are night-owls. That means that no, getting up at 6am is not an option.
It's genetic.
You might be able to get up and do it, and sure, most people will be able to force themselves, but frankly you're getting a fraction of the productivity out of them. That, and it's really unhealthy.
You're an early bird. Congrats. We night owls are the ones who were meant to stay watch over the camp fire to make sure you weren't eaten by a lion in your sleep. Learn to accomodate genetic differences. - irishjays, on 08/17/2008, -1/+8It's was easy to tell my preferences in college. A's and B's in classes after 12:00 pm, C's and even a couple D's in classes before 10:00 am, and I got an automatic F in Fiction appreciation, a 7:00 am class, due to the English department's 6 missed classes policy, and I LOVE fiction... Kids, if you're a night owl, take night classes.
- Daiken, on 08/17/2008, -2/+8Dugg for the kitty
- skintigh, on 08/17/2008, -0/+6Yeah, I've worked with a lot of people who get up insanely early and think that makes them more hard working or something, and believe that they don't need the sleep the rest of humanity requires and are thus superhuman or nonhuman or something. They make a big deal about how they are starving for lunch at 10AM and how much they have done that day. In reality the rest of us have to constantly correct their mistakes and remind them of things they are forgetting. But I suppose they are "productive" in the sense that they do more in their drowsy state, even if they don't do it right.
I know I've been pretty useless since my company decided in the middle of a week that everyone needs to be in work before 8. But I look good keeping my seat warm. We look productive, all their super early in our cubes... - MalDON, on 08/17/2008, -1/+7It's true.... I don't wake up until 1am and I'm a web developer. I go to bed at 4am every morning.
- MalDON, on 08/17/2008, -0/+5Are they not creative or something? Or are you one of those people who think programmers are just drones and pump out 0's and 1's?
- RAEP, on 08/17/2008, -0/+5When can I start?
- CasualReader, on 08/17/2008, -0/+5There have been a few high school systems that started the school day an hour later than most schools (somewhere around 9 AM I think). They found out that there were better attendance, fewer fights in the hall, better GPAs, and a host of other improvements. Unlike smaller kids, most teens just naturally seem to be night owl types. So why don't most schools try it?
If you get out of school later it cuts into your time to work at part time jobs. The local fast food joints get less out of their cheap high school labor pool. Of course, you could argue that the point of your high school time is not primarily to work for peanuts at part time jobs....
The Real Reason: Getting out of school later means less daylight for sports practice after school. But the primary purpose of high school is to provide entertainment for the local town and to train students for big careers in professional sports (screw all those math and science careers, they pay nothing). No kidding, I heard the "less time for sports practice" argument from school administrators (minus the sarcastic parts of course).
As a retired science teacher it used to drive me crazy. If you think it was hard staying awake during first period science, imagine my position trying to teach you !! I was only half awake too. - Jauladeoro, on 08/27/2008, -1/+6Back in high school I always made the case that I'd have gotten better grades if they had different "shifts" to choose from. Waking up at 5 am to get to get ready to get to class was a challenge every morning and I couldn't think straight until after lunch... Now as an adult with more freedom to choose my schedule I feel better and get more done even though I sleep a few hours more.
- Lazydriver, on 08/17/2008, -1/+6Well, they bring in professors to prove their points.
- boogface, on 08/17/2008, -0/+4I can't stand it when people think that they're special because they wake up early. Typically, they think if they're awake, you should be too. All our schedules should be the same as theirs because they're so special.
- krd1, on 08/17/2008, -2/+6I was laid off for about 4 months back in 2001... My natural pattern seemed to be staying up until about 2AM and sleeping until about 10:30-11. That's great when you're not working, but if I get up at 10 now, I'm not getting to work until almost 11, which basically means it will be dark when I get off work every day of the year. For those of us who like to do things that require sunlight after work (like intramural sports leagues, or just being outside in the sun), that's not a very workable schedule. Right now I get in between 7:45 and 8 and work to 5ish. Works for me, and I can actually do normal things after work.
Really, I don't mind what other people want to do, but if you work in a team environment, it is in your benefit to be at work generally the same hours as your team. People who are never available for meetings or questions because of extreme work hours on either end (the 6AM-2PM guys, or the 10AM-7PM guys; neither is better or worse as far as I'm concerned) just make coordinating difficult. - iFrikkenR, on 08/17/2008, -0/+4Interestingly, over here there's a school that lets its senior students come in an hour later, starting at 10. They found they all do MUCH better than if they'd started at 9. I know back at high school I couldn't be bothered going in that early and didn't really become productive until the middle of the day
- CompWiz, on 08/17/2008, -0/+4http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm
The advice there is better in my experience. - Puirtabeul, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Sounds like someone's a little cranky because he missed his nap...
- headzoo, on 08/17/2008, -1/+4I'm the same way. If I get 8 or more a night, I'll feel tired the whole day, and feel like I need a nap or two.
- holaamigo, on 08/17/2008, -2/+5So basically... consistently getting enough sleep is good for you... brilliant!
- digzilla, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3There's a school of thought that when you wake up -- after a sufficient amount of sleep (for you) -- affects how groggy you are. Timing your waking to a certain part of the sleep cycle is the difference.
- Andrewbot, on 08/17/2008, -1/+4Yeah positive ions!
I love *****! - inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3when i know i have to get up early for an appointment or doctor visit i can't sleep well the night before because i am so much in dread of having to be up
i work from home so i stay up late and sleep late or sometimes go to bed early and get up predawn
but it has to be natural for me not enforced
i always try to make my appointment ts for early afternoon
i'm always awake in the afternoon - akchrs, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3ok that was funny.
- scooterfish, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3don't know why you got dugg down. the video was funny.
- Gizza, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2I'm exactly the same. Back when I was doing contract web dev work from home I'd start working at about 8pm and work through the night and slept as much as I needed. No alarm clock, just sleep til I naturally woke up.
Now I've got a fulltime dev job requiring that I be at work by 8:30 and I hate it every morning. The job is great, but I just about never get anything done at all before lunch because I just can't concentrate. I try going to be early but just cannot fall asleep. I'm basically living off energy drinks each day.
I wish employers would realise this. If I could come into work at 12pm each day and just stay later I reckon I'd get a lot more done. - inactive, on 08/17/2008, -1/+3skyz, did you miss the '5 Reasons why people that can't use punctuation should not be allowed to post on digg' thread?
How can we take your social analysis seriously when you can't even use a comma? - Rotzooi, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Heh. Corr. 10*A*M :)
Nothing against the catpeople though! - dudefaceguyman, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2I could see that. As a hobby I'm a comic artist/writer and the night is much more peaceful so you can focus completely on your work. No noisy cars, people blaring music, annoying kids outside, and best of all zero people knocking on the door every few minutes or calling bugging you for *****.
Daytime is simply full of distractions. -
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