Re: moonlight coding

From: Corey Murtagh (emonk_at_slingshot.no.uce)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:28:14 +1200

Phlip wrote:

> myren, lord wrote:
>
>
>>i'm looking to do some moonlight coding- for money. so far the only
>>thing i've really found is rentacoder.com, but most jobs seem to be
>>under $100 for a weeks worth of work or more.
>
> You mean you work during the day?
>
> (If I were hiring) I ain't gonna hire someone who can't devote 97% of their
> daytime energy to coding. The occassional fevered midnight spurt is okay,
> but code written under the influence of sleep deprivation looks bad and is
> full of bugs.

The above generalisation, like all generalisations (yes, including this
one), is not universally true. It may be so for you, your co-workers,
and in fact every programmer you've ever worked with... but it's
certainly not true for everyone.

Personally I usually work much better once the endorphins hit. Some of
the best code I've ever written was done after 40+ hours of up time.
And I do mean best in a bunch of positive ways: elegant, readable,
bug-free and efficient.

I average about 6 hours sleep a night most of the time, and back in the
days of my mis-spent youth I quite often killed a whole weekend at the
keyboard. 

-- 
Corey Murtagh
The Electric Monk
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!"