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Frankly, I'm having a hard time finding anything sufficiently Christian to say in response to that remark.
Before I was a runner, I was a couch potato with a pack-and-a-half a day smoking habit. I'll let God judge whether or not I made the right choice.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Off topic
You made the right choice.
Quit smoking when I was 24 (after 12 years of smoking) and started running
to cure my bad temper   And to get through national service too...
have all the benefits of my desicion though (am 46)
Havent run much in the last 5 years though, but still
on Topic
solutions come to me in the sleep, or in non-computer related activeties
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I do tend to come up with my best ideas and solutions whilst in bed. Either in that drift-time before I fall asleep or before I'm fully awake.
Michael
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I have woken up in the middle of the night with several "Aha!" moments, when I have figured out a really bad bug/problem while asleep. 
I even remembered the solution in the morning 
I have also been known to describe my work problems to my girlfriend in depth while asleep, only to be told about it in the morning and have no recolection 
If you vote me down, my score will only get lower
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I had that as well, my wife has often asked me coding/developing specific questions about a project I was currently working on, and I was baffled how she knew about this (as she has no idea about my work whatsoever) until she let on that I would sometimes talk in my sleep about problems I had had during the day.....
bum... and I thought I´d got rid of all the bugs 
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A lot of times when that happens I just wake up and just solve the problem instead of waiting till morning.
Solving Problems While You Sleep [^]
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For some of us, that would require driving to work in the middle of the night. Most people don't like the all-nighter and tend to avoid it as much as they can.
Are you the ideal employee or do you get paid for your overtime?
Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
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Driving into work to do your work is very 1970s  In this day and age you don't physically need to be at work to "be at work". There are plenty of intrastructures available that allow you to access your applications and data from anywhere using almost any device.
This is actually what I do so it only makes sense that I would use it as well
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Not all people have that luxury.. 
Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
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You're not alone.
I was once totally suprised that I had solved a problem while sleeping. Infact I dreamt about me conding the solution and when I woke in the morning I could still remember it and it worked.... rather bizzar.
Perhaps I wasn't dreaming about it, but was in some semi-sleep state where it felt like I was dreaming, but it was during my sleepcycle
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And there I was thinking I was the only one that had that "ability". I can dream of my problem, come up with a solution and the next day try it out. For some reason, it always works.
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When I solve a problem in my sleep, I bill that time .
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Xybex wrote:
And there I was thinking I was the only one that had that "ability".
So you used to think you weren't human?
Solving Problems while you Sleep[^]
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Most have interpreted it to mean that you solve problems while asleep/drifting off/dreaming.
However, at first glance my interpretation was less literal along the same lines as:
Where will I find the love of my life? In my dreams.
When will I inherit a million dollars? In my dreams.
Where do I solve the most difficult work related problems? In my dreams.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
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I answered "in my dreams", but I had a nice experience earlyer this week.
I was in my car, going back home when it suddenly occured to me that the reason why my patch was not working was that my pre-processor directive to activate that patch could not possibly be evaluated because I forgot to #include the file where the #define was.
I went back to work, sure enough, the #include was absent and once I put it in, bingo, my patch was activated and a bug got circumvented.
ahhh.
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I usually go to bed with my problems and come out of my bed with solutions.
I really don't know when the problems are solved
WM.
What about weapons of mass-construction?
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I'm awake; but not quit, and I hash over the problem.
And, drift back to sleep (I don't answer to an alarm
clock and have no fixed working hours). That's when
answers come to me.
WedgeSoft
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