Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance · HackerPapers discussions

Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance — mentioned by agentultra

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:20:18 GMT

It definitely does. In what few empirical studies on what makes programmers effective, sleep, is the primary contributing factor to low error rates [0][1]. Stress and overwork are probably close seconds. And some of these studies are cross-sectional across knowledge workers; iow, not just programmers. If you want to make it to your 40s and still be an effective IC you need to learn how to regulate yourself and follow a disciplined approach to work. Cognitive performance from chronic sleep deprivation takes years to show up. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2656292/ [1]…

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Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance — mentioned by schrototo

Fri, 08 May 2020 23:08:37 GMT

Get enough sleep. [1] [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.02544.pdf

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Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance — mentioned by jackcodes

Sun, 08 Mar 2020 02:27:48 GMT

Point taken - this is as valuable an opinion as any other. I'd love for an empoloyer to care about it enough to 'put their money where their mouth' is when it comes to making sure I'm looking out for myself sleep wise, but I wholeheartedly accept this stance. ref: [0] Sleep deprivation: Impact on cognitive performance https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2656292/ [1] Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of SleepDeprivation on Novice Developers’Performance https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.02544.pdf [2] Personal anecdata

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Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance — mentioned by yogthos

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 23:26:12 GMT

Sure, however nobody has been shown that one approach is more costly than the other in practice. The most recent research available is the replication of the large scale GitHub study [1]. The relative effects of language choice on code quality is less than 1%. The main finding is that language choice hardly matters at all. On the other hand, we can easily measure the effects of factors like sleep [2], overwork [3], and happiness [4] on code quality. If static typing was an actual factor, we’d see exactly the same kinds of effects. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying static typing, but there’s…

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Need for Sleep: the Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers' Performance — HN submission

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 12:17:11 GMT

Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018)

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