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Beware of solutions that will be worse than the problem. Your best bet is to get as much sleep as you need. You'll be thankful for this when you are older. Habitually getting by on less sleep than one needs as an individual (even if it is 12 hrs/night) will lead to a host of diseases later in life, many of which average medical professionals will not connect with poor lifestyle habits (such as bad sleep habits).
People in this profession may not know it, but an important good health habit a person can form is going to bed at 10pm every night (consistently). It's a bit of a challenge (understatement), but it is important to remain close to the objective.
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In my previous post, I gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed you really physically need 12 hrs of sleep.
The other possibility is that you are just lacking motivation or you are depressed, etc. If those are the issues, then various treatments should be investigated.
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Enough sleep improves the power to think straight to your goal 
If I have slept bad one night I can notice that while programming.
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Very true. The "macho" attitude of getting by on less sleep than one physically needs is self destructive.
Getting enough sleep makes one's thoughts and actions more powerful.
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Drink lots of caffeine.
If drinking it doesn't work, try intravenous.
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.
-- Bruce Schneier
By the way, dog_spawn isn't a nickname - it is my name with an underscore instead of a space. -- dog_spawn
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As no one seemed to bother to answer you - I'll try.
If this is a serious problem to you - especially if you are still tired and wak in your wake time - GO SEE A DOCTOR!
There are a whole lot of conditions that can make you tired - from lack of iron to heart defects. So much for encouragement
If you don't feel that sleeping 12 hours is a problem for you - simply do it!
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
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For the uninitiatied EQ can pretty much disable your daytime productivity. Most of my team have been able to break free, as has (I'm told) Erik Thompson.[^] I live in fear of Sony releasing a signficant upgrade though.
David
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EVE online[^] is what keeps me up until silly-o-clock every night.
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Sleep is for the weak!
Kha0s
"There are 10 types of people in the world; Those that understand binary and those that do not."
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... and the unconscious!
--Colin Mackay--
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but perseverance." (H. Jackson Brown)
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Wrong.
"Sleep is for fags." - 'Kerry Mahoney' played by Steve Guttenberg, Police Academy
Software Zen: delete this;
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And for the strong when they haven't slept in a couple of days.
Nelno
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That's what I really miss from my earlier years - being able to get like 3 hours of sleep and be perfectly fine the next day (and not need coffee to do it). Of course, if I had a boring class I might sit in the back of the room and nap for half an hour... 
--Mike--
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If my rhyme was a drug, I'd sell it by the gram.
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I burned out my ability to do that during my sophomore year. I remember at one point I would arrive at school, buy a 16 ounce coffee, drink that during my first class. Sometime during the second class, I'd pop a Vanquish (acetaminophen and caffeine) and a NoDoz (more caffeine) or two dry. After the second class, I had a break. Time for another 16 oz. coffee...
It's a wonder I have a digestive system left. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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I thought it is the other way around: the older you get, the less sleep you need. I used to be able to sleep 10 hours everyday, now it is down to 6.
My articles and software tools
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The thing you do after yawning and before scratching your butt.
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Talk to the hand!
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Asleep = !Awake;
Awake = !Asleep;
When I can talk about 64 bit processors and attract girls with my computer not my car, I'll come out of the closet. Until that time...I'm like "What's the ENTER key?"
-Hockey on being a geek
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Asleep ~= Awake
!Asleep ~= !Awake
Which I think adequately describes me on the train to and from work each day.
I once programmed in a language where there existed a third possibility. You could have true, false or maybe. [Enable Sarcasm] That was fun! [Disable Sarcasm]
--Colin Mackay--
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but perseverance." (H. Jackson Brown)
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Sounds like a more accurate abstraction of life to me. Yes, No, Maybe.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Brian Welsch wrote:
"blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans.
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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I just remembered that it also had a fourth (rarely used) option which was "NoWay". The truth tables were interesting also.
true and false interacted as normal.
NoWay was interesting because, as you know, true = not false, and false = not true. NoWay = not NoWay, false = NoWay, noWay = not true. Not NoWay = NoWay.
In other words NoWay is so false that it would take an infinite amount of time to make it true.
That was a really strange language.
--Colin Mackay--
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but perseverance." (H. Jackson Brown)
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Think of the last time you went to a long, boring meeting (or class or lecture) that you felt you had to go to, but didn't really care about one way or the other.
No single raindrop believes that it is responsible for the flood.
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This question implies that LackOfSleep == QualityProgrammer. While I put in a couple of 40 hour days back during school, and have occasionally pulled all-nighters on the job since then, it comes down to this:
If I'm not getting enough sleep because of how I do my job, I'm not doing it right. I've made some sort of mistake, either in the design or more probably in how I've managed the project (or how I've managed the people managing me).
After over twenty years of making a living at writing software, I've found that losing sleep is counterproductive. If you're not getting enough sleep, you're going to write crappy code and make stupid mistakes while debugging.
On the other hand, if you're one of those for whom coding eight hours a day isn't enough, you may think the boss will be impressed with everything you did. Wrong. In fact, he may think you're in all that extra time because you can't do your normal job in the allotted eight hours. At best he's grateful for the free software he's getting from you. The overtime won't make a bit of difference in how you advance through the ranks or your salary.
In short,  == .
Software Zen: delete this;
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You're so correct. The only problem is that I'm too damn stupid to sleep. There's always this "something" I have to do, and all of a sudden it's 3 am. Argh!
I'm thinking about hooking up high voltage electrodes to my alarm and connect them to various parts of my body.
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Talk to the hand!
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
I'm thinking about hooking up high voltage electrodes to my alarm and connect them to various parts of my body.
You've been talking to my Dad haven't you? He's threatening the same thing...
When I can talk about 64 bit processors and attract girls with my computer not my car, I'll come out of the closet. Until that time...I'm like "What's the ENTER key?"
-Hockey on being a geek
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Sounds like your dad is a smart guy!
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Talk to the hand!
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