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No. It is senile dementia.
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I have done this many times and am glad to see someone else post the same scenario. I've been utterly amazed looking back that I was able to be "in the zone" as you say, and whip out something so complex.
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For sure. This is a joy. For me, it is usually the things that took months that I did by myself, products of immersion.
The other side of this is when someone asks me about something that I did 8 years ago with the expectation that I understand it like I wrote it yesterday. Suddenly I feel like a newbie in my own world, but then it comes flowing back.
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Yep, been there. Months later - years later as well. And yes, you wonder what kind of zone you were in, and whether you can be there again. To me, that was one of the greatest feelings (I’m retired now).
Cheers!
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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I've made it a habit to explain every non-trivial part of my code in detail, using very_long_expressive_names, and multiline comments to explain how I arrived at the algorithm or formula. I do that for my future self, most of all, but occasionally my coworkers benefit from it, too. For that reason, most of the time, it is my future me who thanks my past self for spending that extra time when I have to look at that code months or years later!
With a sufficient level of explanation, that work looks a lot less like magic, so I typically end up with 'what the hell was I thinking?' more often than 'boy, what a brilliant idea' 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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I have been able to maintain the thing after picking it up 7 months later, so I'm able to understand it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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the zone is a real thing. I've also produced some amazing things in a short amount of time when in the zone. I still have some of that code running 20 years later
But the opposite happens once in awhile, and I'm like WTF did I write? it works, but it shouldn't.
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No it's not fun for me, especially since most of the code I revisit was done more than 7 years ago, was in C++ or assembler and if I don't remember everything based on the comments, then it was badly commented.
Considering the uncountable number of hacks that went into game engines of that period, astonishment is quite frequent but it's also like going back and judging yourself from experience (you've since figured out more elegant algorithms or hacks)
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Citrus fruits – Lime sorry I hurt your peelings.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's pretty good, but I bet MichelTangelo could do better. I'm outta here before this turns Ugli.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You have a certain zest for this.
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Go Mango
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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You have to be thick-skinned to handle this. To get to the core of it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Why I darrion reply to this post, even against my core values, pits me against common sense. Still, it's not time to gripe about rancid puns.
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Ahhh! Puns with a peel. I seed what you did there!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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That is citron-ly the worst lemon I have ever seen. Or it this just sour grape-fruits?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The National Ripped CD to PC (windows media player)
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4'33" By John Cage (performed by The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster live at the Barbican).
YouTube[^]
Don't forget to turn it up to Eleven!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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that's rather cool music! (I know that the composer denies it, though.)
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I first heard that years ago on Radio 3 while driving to work; a quite fascinating piece.
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Blimey! You could give us a warning next time, that almost burst my eardrums!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Not available in my country. Bah! 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Unless you depend on the images, you can obtain the sound track by turning off the sound of your PC for four minutes and thirty three seconds.
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Same here 
I was wondering if I would be the only one
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I got the same message, so I just vpn'ed (I use NORDVPN) to the UK and was able to view the performance.
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