telegraph.co.uk— Distractions in the workplace have long been a source of complaint between colleagues but according to a new study, they may actually help us solve problems.
Oct 13, 2008View in Crawl 4
Yes, but the article doesn't go into extreme distractions where you can't get back on track. Then it comes and slaps you upside the face when you least expect it.I know I almost, ALMOST had a solution then friends came over and distracted and annoyed me one day. I could taste the solution, but got sidetracked. Well, beer did it.I've been known to code in my sleep. Some really hardcore math I was working on for a week. My girlfriend at the time woke up to see me coding at 5 in the morning. I got up, went back to bed.I didn't remember any of it till I looked at the output before warming up over my morning cup of joe and saw a correct output depending on vectors I was using to test. I opened *that damn file* I was working on for a week and said "woah who the f**k wrote this!?" No comments, nothing but straight-out binary beautiful assembly-level math operations. To this day I actually am still stunned that I wrote it in my sleep. It's like revenge coding, when you just rename and reduce and compact all the code you can do just to piss someone off. Yes it works, it works quickly and efficiently, but god damn it doesn't make any sense unless you stare at it for a few hours.I think it's how bad you want to solve it, in the end.
chickenOct 13, 2008
Really helps when you're programming too.
shadowspawnOct 13, 2008
Yes, but the article doesn't go into extreme distractions where you can't get back on track. Then it comes and slaps you upside the face when you least expect it.I know I almost, ALMOST had a solution then friends came over and distracted and annoyed me one day. I could taste the solution, but got sidetracked. Well, beer did it.I've been known to code in my sleep. Some really hardcore math I was working on for a week. My girlfriend at the time woke up to see me coding at 5 in the morning. I got up, went back to bed.I didn't remember any of it till I looked at the output before warming up over my morning cup of joe and saw a correct output depending on vectors I was using to test. I opened *that damn file* I was working on for a week and said "woah who the f**k wrote this!?" No comments, nothing but straight-out binary beautiful assembly-level math operations. To this day I actually am still stunned that I wrote it in my sleep. It's like revenge coding, when you just rename and reduce and compact all the code you can do just to piss someone off. Yes it works, it works quickly and efficiently, but god damn it doesn't make any sense unless you stare at it for a few hours.I think it's how bad you want to solve it, in the end.
thetronOct 14, 2008
Works for House. He looks at something quite random and gets the eureka moment
slicker76Oct 14, 2008
Ya. Problem solving on how to get rid of the distractions
je12uOct 14, 2008
I wish I had a secretary:c'mon just touch it a little bit...it helps me concentrate
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