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Here's a thought. Whenever my (dialup) connection is down I feel like I'm completely lobotomised. Suddenly I can't check the site, I can't check MSDN, I can't have a chortle at The Register, and I can't check email - yet there are still a zillion things that can be done. I've got a ton of friends who are the same - as soon as their connection is down they feel they may as well pack it all in and head out for a quick 9 holes of golf.
Whenever I get to experience the heady joys of a fast connection I feel super productive, yet I'm fairly sure I simply check email more, browse the forums while avoiding work, and laugh myself silly at Joe Cartoon flash games.
Are others like this? Do I simply need to unplug more often? Doctor - can you help me??
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Yes, we have highly unreliable and intermitently slow internet here, and I know I feel a bit lost when it goes down altogether. Maybe we need to start a support group ?
Christian
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To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion.
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Hi Guys and gals,
Does it bother you that the second largest community in this poll falls under "I only turn up to work for the free coffee and fast connection." category???
Bothers me a lot.
Chiao.
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These "I only turn up to work for the free coffee and fast connection." kind of people are the third larget community not second.
My two cents.
But still it bothers me. 
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Maybe you should lighten up ( and maybe even consider putting your name to your opinion )...
I chose that option ( which I am disappointed is running third instead of first ), because it's funny. I'm sure pretty much everyone who is with me did the same. My true answer would be 75%, because no-one REALLY works 100% of the time, but I sure try.
Christian
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Surely that defeats the purpose of the poll? I always answer truthully (or at least choose the option clsoest to the truth), as I think (or rather I thought) it provided a reasonably accurate sample of the visitors views.
Now I will never be able to trust them again  .
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Well, so do I usually, but in all seriousness, how can we take a poll on how hard you work seriously ? This is the coolest job in the WORLD, why would anyone give 25% or show up for free coffee ?
Christian
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If the project, team and morale are good you'll get 75+% out of me.
If the project turns stale or any other p*ss*ing off factors are introducted I'm afraid its a low 30%.
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> If the project, team and morale are good you'll get 75+% out of me.
> If the project turns stale or any other p*ss*ing off factors are
> introducted I'm afraid its a low 30%.
Yep. This is what was basically said in other threads, too.
Peace!
-=- James.
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I used to only show up for the fast internet, but now I have my own cable modem. I don't drink coffee.
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In contrast with David Wulff, I'm being productive over 75% a day.
My day starts at 8am, wake up around 8.30, drink coffee and answering email. Getting the latest versions of the sources, trying to check out what everyone has been doing the other day, in the meantime still answering email since that comes 24/7 (unfortunately, sometimes). About an hour later, I start typing. Once started, there's no ending  Well, to be honoust, I'm more busy finetuning my code, debugging, etc since I'm always told that your first approach is always wrong, and no piece of code is bugfree and/or efficient enough.
At 12:30pm I'm on a break for half an hour. Mostly we take a walk around the area, sometimes I stay with my machine. We're building a new bulding a couple hundred meters along the road where we are now. Very interesting to see how hard those people work. At 1pm, I return to my machine and continue whatever I was doing. Normally, my day ends at 5pm, but I'm always late (usually somewhere between 6 pm and 7 pm). Through the whole day, I check some work-related websites (such as that nice little site with orange colors, forgot the name) and answer my email.
In the evening, I like to read my email at home, check that funny little site again, go to my girlfriend, come back home, read my email again, check that darn website ( ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) ) go to sleep, and that 5 days a week.
That's about my whole day.. very useless information to deal with
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Alex Marbus
www.marbus.net
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I chose "25% or more (we promise we won't tell your boss)", but it's all right, as I am the boss .
~25% is perfectly serious though. I am merely the guy who suggests things (i.e. orders) the rest and works on my own private projects in my 'free time' - whilst paying myself full-time of course.
My average daily break-up is as follows:
20% playing Delta Force Land Warrior or Counterstrike (online).
I class this as on-the-job research, as I am developing a military game in my 'free time'. It also helps to release stress before starting the day.
10% spent in Outlook answering emails and providing support, etc.
Of this about 2% is spent trying to unsubscribe myself from SPAM sent as a result of that damned 'Punch the Monkey' (now ‘Zap the Monkey’) ad campaign I fell for  . It was just sooooo cute...
35% working on private projects.
Ranging from my game project to learning exercises in C#.
4% toilet breaks, quick naps and eating.
Can I say anymore?
30% working on non-private projects - i.e. 'Work'
This number is quoted frequently whenever government agencies or the taxman are involved. Me? I only work 15 hour weeks, honestly
1% phoning the drug squad and initiating raids on all local competitors
It slows down their productivity and helps provide me my average work’less’ day. Wait, I shouldn’t have told you that.
David Wulff
dwulff@battleaxesoftware.com
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Do you have any work for a graphics programmer ?
Christian
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Unfortunately not, as I am using an existing 3D engine (Genesis 3D for those who may be interested) so I am as far away from "how do I put this pixel in this colour in this location" as possible, and am in the "draw this bitmap at this location" realm (much better for simply minded people like myself who don't care how the damned thing is drawn, I just want it done).
Devloping a game is just a way for me to express my creative side whilst actaully having fun (how many people can say that coding that cool new UI gizmo for ABC-Office v2.43a was 'fun'?). Getting paid for having fun just makes it even better. Being able to pay myself for having fun is the icing on the cake .
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Self-employed with a real small software company here.
> 1% phoning the drug squad and initiating raids on
> all local competitors It slows down their productivity...
Damn, I wish I'd thought of that!
Steve
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Steve Driessens,
Resort Software Pty. Ltd.
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(Note to the challenged ; observe the smiley in the subject and here: )
I do not see how you could hit a true 100% unless you never took a bathroom or food break. Unless, or course, you are taking into consideration the fact that you may have "bursts" of "hyper-productivity", where you may get more done in 2 hours than most others do in a day. That I can understand, as I experience it often. (That is not to say that the rest of the time I am unproductive!  )
Anyway... IMHO, the poll is a bit too restrictive. It does not take factors like type of work (as someone has already posted), current state of a project, morale, etc. into account. I do not believe that there is a hard and fast rule for productivity.
(I love the people that said they only show up for coffee and connectivity!)
-=- James.
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>> Anyway... IMHO, the poll is a bit too restrictive
It is really quite subjective. On any given day, I think I could be any one of the five catagories.
I think however that from my client's perspective, I have many more of the 75 and 100 % days than the other catagories. But yes I also suffer from the coffee drinking and surfing syndrome days too.
Chris Meech
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Yep - the poll is restrictive but I thought it would be fun to see how people voted. I remember talking to some project-manager-type-person who was claiming that if you got 3 solid hours of work out of the average 8hr day you were doing well, and I kept thinking that was ludicrous - until I started looking around and watching how other (and myself ) actually work.
And I was going to make the comment about excellent bladder control but you beat me to it!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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> I remember talking to some project-manager-type-person who was claiming
> that if you got 3 solid hours of work out of the average 8hr day you
> were doing well [...]
I have a project manager that used to work for/with the military, and he claims that the military had some kind of "standards of code production" (or something like that) that read along the lines of: 'a programmer should be producing 23 lines of fully tested code per hour'.
Whatever the hell a "line" is, I have no idea...!
Peace!
-=- James.
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The scary part is that I'm a high school senior with a 3.974 cumulative GPA (one B freshman year in Spanish). That shows how broken the education system here in the U.S. is.
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i'd say it shows how smart you are. remember, if you're at the thin end of the bell curve, there are a whole bunch of people down there in the fat part (and the other thin part) and school might not be a breeze for them.
-c
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Smaller Animals Software, Inc.
http://www.smalleranimals.com
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Please forget my questions. What a freshman. What a cumulative GPA. And what a high school senior.
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freshman is a 9th grader. senior is 12th grade. cumulative GPA is your grade point average from 9th to wherever you are now. it's on a scale from 0 to 4.0, with 4.0 being good.
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Hi All,
I just felt like the poll is mainly directed to the Employed ones, so thought of having this thread for Freelance developers or generally said Self Employed ones to post opinions.
Thank you.
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Even when I was freelancing there were definite times that I had set aside for work, and within these times, periods when I would find myself doing stuff that wasn't strictly work related.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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