I have diagnosed ADD. Mild but enough to affect my work: Easily distracted Can't concentrate on one project at a time Addicted to the web Procrastination etc. What strategies do you use to compensate? One clarification I have real ADD. I was diagnosed with it when I was a child and have wrestled with it all my life. I am not ...
I have read that what you keep on your desk is very influential in how you work and your level of productivity. I am trying to optimise the way that I work (I am a terrible procrastinator), and am curious what other programmers' desks look like. What do you have on your desk? Is there anything you deliberately avoid? There is no need...
When starting a programming project, how do you jump start yourself to do a task that you just despise doing? ...
Once I am "in the zone" I am extremely productive and code just flows out of me, often I can get 2 or 3 days coding done in 1 day. But I find that often its hard to get to that place, I find myself procrastinating, getting distracted by other things (SO for example). Is this experience common? How do you force yourself into that state...
I often find myself wasting a lot of time playing short games like Mine Sweeper or Solitaire in between my studying. I am looking for a better habit to replace this one. I have learned a lot by solving problems from programming competitions, an activity which has a certain instant gratification / short feedback-loop quality to it. The l...
From wikipedia: The primary symptoms of OCPD are a preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order, organization, and schedules; being very rigid and inflexible in their beliefs; showing perfectionism that interferes with completing a task; excessive focus on being productive with their time; being very conscientious; having inflexib...
I wrote a game years ago (under Windows 95) in Pascal. Since then over time I'd checked it and it still ran with the newer OSs. It works in XP. It works in Vista. However under Windows 7, even in the XP compatibility mode, it crashes on the spot. I've yet to get a chance to attach a debugger and wade through the decade-old code, but...
This is a little bit of fun. Can you devise the shortest program which compiles but does nothing but immediately crash when executed? Wherefore by "crash" we mean that the program stops with an error condition (a core dump for example). Is there a language that crashes faster (7 chars) than C using a gcc compiler? [I leave this answer f...