Meaning only the time when your fingers are actually pushing keys to write code.
So is the other 6 or 7 documenting stuff, useless meetings...?
Eric Wendelin
2008-10-13 02:57:04
Documenting stuff, researching documentation, testing, downloading and installing software requirements, managing environment, sometimes useless meetings. Oh, and, context switching to answer a lot of ridiculous questions.
eyelidlessness
2008-10-13 16:24:27
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contact between masses is only an illusion. since there is always alot more vacuum between atoms then there is actual matter, One could argue that nothing ever touches anything.
shoosh
2008-10-12 23:18:18
Hey, he said "pushing keys". It doesn't matter if there's any actual contact between atoms or not. :D
Rob Howard
2008-10-12 23:36:50
Well, technically, "pushing" involves the electromagnetic force, which has infinite range, so you're "pushing" keys (and everything else in the universe) 24 hours a day ;-)
David Zaslavsky
2009-05-03 22:30:41
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My Workrave statistics say about 40.000 keystrokes on average day. You compute the rest.
Milan Babuškov
2008-10-12 23:27:13
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Varies, some days I can crank out code for hours: four, eight, who can say. Others none at all. Why do you want to know?
Jeff
2008-10-12 23:27:33
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If I'm lucky 3-4 hours, though usually maybe about 2. There are sometimes multi-month stretches where no code is written at all where we do analysis work.
Giovanni Galbo
2008-10-12 23:30:10
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Bob Slydell: You see, what we're actually trying to do here is, we're trying to get a feel for how people spend their day at work... so, if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
On a bad week I always think about this scene from Office Space.
hal10001
2008-10-12 23:34:02
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At my last job it was about 1 hr/day but now I'd say about 7 hrs/day. It seems to depend on what kind of documentation you're forced to do or perhaps how many meetings you have to attend.
Eric Wendelin
2008-10-13 02:59:13