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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: In Indian scenario, we call the early morning hours as "Brahma Muhurta". Anything you study these hours, the grasping potential of the mind is extremely high during this period.
It's a piece of ancient Indian wisdom with which I have always *dis*agreed, sometimes vehemently so, especially when I was a school-going kid! (Back in school-days, on this point, I disagreed with my parents, teachers, seniors in school and family, friends, advices in books... Everyone!)
My personal experience is that *if* you have had a refreshing sleep the night before, then, this time is *somewhat* more appropriate for *memorizing*, esp. if the thing to be memorized was in a poem-like form (say, a part of oral tradition). But not at all so for conceptually *understanding* something new. (And I've always set a big store on the latter).
The point is very easy to verify. Get up early in the morning and play a music CD (music of any form will do--anything that doesn't put you back to sleep). If you do that, chances are brighter than average that these tunes will remain with you, without any distortion, throughout the rest of the day. And if the latter comes to happen, then, probably the tune will also get committed in your long-term memory very well without distortion. (By long-term, I mean the kind that is reliable for decades--for transmission across generations.)
So, the advice of "braamha muhurt_" must have served well the needs of the times when merely retaining something was of far more importance than also having an understanding of it. That is, in the historic, vedic times, when preservation of knowledge by writing still had no reliable technology to go by, and the best "imprint" available was via the human mental faculties for memory-reproduction itself.
The progress in technology has now freed up for us the time and the mental resources for the conceptually higher-level functions like understanding, thinking, problem-solving, imagining, creating, etc.
The latter mental activities are, if my personal experience is anything to go by, far better done when you have already been awake for several hours, long enough that your mind or consciousness is fully "warmed up" to perform at the peak levels, so to speak. Practically speaking, this means, after 10 AM in the morning, and about 1.5 hours *after* a major meal anytime in the waking hours later on.
Finally, I still suspect if, even for sheer memorizing, the advantage of the early morning hours is really that high. Perhaps it's just that the time is *quiet*, but this can be the case in the early night hours too (say, after 10 PM in mid-size cities). Personally, I have found memorizing just as easy at night--say, memorizing of calculus formulae. Yet, for by-hearting something via listening or by poetic recitation, there does seem to be a unique sort of advantage with the early morning hours.
In any case, I think the time-slot is over-glorified in India.
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I Love the smell of burnin' SDRAM in the Morning !
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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Most of MasterPiece I have created, is in 6-9 time zone... reason behind it is silent enviornment!
"Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow
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Yeah!
Nothing sucks more than a crowded office:
* people are gibbering in their telephones
* your Boss tries to tell you something about his new car
* the guy next to you uses his pencil as a drum stick
Oh, man I hate it...
I think I need vacation 
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Smurfcoder wrote: people are gibbering in their telephones
And that too those loud SMS flirts with thier lousy girl-friends in the work atmosphere disturbing the tranquility of others. 
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I have to agree. I work from home so the afternoon is full of:
•Noise
•Distractions
•More noise
Sometimes I try to wrap some code up at midnight but I find the quality suffers most of the time.
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I'm generally most productive about now too...
In terms of getting things done it's good from now until about 11 - then I slowly notice the sutble bugs less and less, until finally it takes me 30 minutes to realise that my code isn't working because I commented the crucial line out.
Ninja (the Nerd)
Confused? You will be...
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I work in an open plan office, and most of the people around me are not programmers. It's like a call-centre.
I find it nearly impossible to be effective until everyone else has gone home.
I even bought the Bose noise-cancelling headphones, to no avail. (Apparently, they don't cancel the frequencies of female voices so that in an emergency aboard a plane you will still hear the stewardess.)
Apparently, programmers are supposed to work in this environment because we have a problem with information silos. (Whatever that means.)
Bring on Maxwell Smart's cone of silence.
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AmazingMo wrote: I find it nearly impossible to be effective until everyone else has gone home.
True. Sometimes some jerks make the workplace like a fish-market; howling-wailing-barking-yelling-shrieking
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: True. Sometimes some jerks make the workplace like a fish-market; howling-wailing-barking-yelling-shrieking
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Oh. So you work at the same place that I do?
Might meet you down at the canteen one day.
P.
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Bin there done that – enjoy!
Actually that sounds kind of tame – unless they are all trying to get you to modify or create something.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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Yep...the most productive time of the day for me is the last minute before a project is due!!!
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True. There would be real significant source control checkins, installshield preparations, vibrant deployments.
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LOL
I am not more productive – but I have spent a lot of time (before then) getting the pieces in place.
Appearances are seductive – lol.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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Does anyone else feel like they are most productive when you least expect it. For example i am not a morning person at all. I hate talking to anyone and i just want to be in bed, but i find that i get the most work done in the early morning hours.
I think this is because i don't have any distractions and the ones i do have i don't care about because i just want to go back to bed.
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Interesting,
I am productive when I am in the zone (can see the goal clearly), do not interrupt, do not ask questions, and please leave me alone. The time of day does not matter, when I am in the zone.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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These are all in three hours increments. Who stay productive for that long? 
only two letters away from being an asset
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I was going to do 2 hour increments but wasn't sure everyone would have the attention span to check that many boxes.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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When I saw your Subject line I was going to respond, "You can always check more than one box." Then I saw the actual message and decided to just say, "Never mind!"
Liliht
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A friend said his professor said that you can not be productive more than 6 hours – I laughed because I had been productive for considerably more than that. Now I know what his professor was talking about – we get tired as we get older.
My best productive time (for personal goal): 36 hours straight. (No sleep).
My best productive time for employer was 24 + 10 (and a lecture from my doctor).
If you are struggling at 3 hours then you are still young (give it time).
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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To me it depends to the sun a bit I try to sleep in the dark night and not after the sun rise. At the moment I wakeup at around 4.30 AM and as an stand alone programmer, start the job at 5 AM at home.
No option for me to contribute to this poll
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}
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Hamed Mosavi wrote: Missing 'other' option
You have the entire 24-hour slot covered. Which timezone are you in that has more than this cycle of hours?
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If you read my previous comment you can guess what's wrong with that. The problem is not 24 hours of a day, but it's time slices. They divided the day into 3 hour slices.
I want to choose 5-8 AM. So which slice do you recommend?
-- modified at 4:02 Wednesday 15th August, 2007
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}
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Usually it's 9-12, but depends if I've been out the night before
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