programming + linux = speed

[ensane]

This is about as random as it gets really. But does anyone else ever have a problem where they are playing with their linux machine, learning something new, try to break and then fix it, or whatever. Then all of a sudden you look over to the clock and notice that it has been nearly 5 or more hours, it's after 5 in the morning, or you have to work in 2 hours?

I just got done workin on a grueling program for my Perl class, and I find myself wired like on speed after 5 hours of figuring this thing out.

So I have come to the conclusion that there is a possible connection between speed and linux. Or maybe not, just wanted something random to post at 5:15 in the morning while I am wired for no reason.

[XiaoKJ]

but won't you welcome the effect? You just can't find it in windows!

In no time you will be years ahead of those windows morons.



(but you will be having a sleep deficit too :D)

[YeNotGuilty]

nah, but I have stayed up doing a goddamn reformat from when my FIRST win installation crapped the bed....was up til 6, had to be showered, dressed, and out the door by 7:15, nearly killed myself in the shower afterwards because of lack of sleep ^_^

[bwkaz]

Sounds like you may have been in hack mode (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/hack-mode.html) to me. Especially since you were programming at the time. ;)

[drummerboy195]

I've done that before, only I always end up starting at noon, and next thing I know people are asking if I want to go to dinner. It's always a little suprising.

[CoffeeMan]

been there, gentoo is a great hacking distro, I dont ever sleep

[dannybunkins]

holy crap this thread has made me look at the clock i have been on my computer for like 5 hours, and i havn't even started my java homework. crap, i had better started.

[Chess007]

I know the feeling. Except for me it was when I was spending hours and hours writting html. (a little less hard core. lol)

That also happens during research sometimes. I've spend hours and hours googling, or reading this forum.

Sometimes - when i'm about to sleep - lines for a poem will keep going through my head and I 'have to' write them down. If not they will bother me so much that I can't sleep. So, I end up writting and writting until the words stop comming.

[ensane]

Originally posted by bwkaz
Sounds like you may have been in hack mode (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/hack-mode.html) to me. Especially since you were programming at the time. ;)

Ha! I like that.. "hack mode".. Man I am fairly new at programming, I remember when I first thought about it, it scared the crap out of me, now its like "my thing". A friend of mine explained it as, when I am programming i am "In my bliss".

Anyway I wonder what someone like myself would have done 100 years ago, before a computer was even invented? I wonder what all us linux users would have been doing instead of getting cancer and carpeltunnel (spelling?).

Thats an intesting thing to think about, if someone is a computer person now, what would they had been 100 years earlier instead?
Boy I just love throwing out these random topics...