Anyhow, the best and most respected programmers I've know have always been the ones who refuse to spend long hours on a problem, and then come back to it the next day or after lunch with a ten-second solution.
Amen to that (in other similar fields even). My thesis advisor was easily among the most respected mathematicians in the country, was insistent that getting 9 hours of sleep each night was a job responsbility of being a mathematician. On top of that, it was well known among his grad students that the most sure-fire way to excuse oneself from a mathematical discussion that was getting rather too long, was to need to go and eat.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Re: I should ask my big sister
Date: 2009-05-01 01:05 am (UTC)Amen to that (in other similar fields even). My thesis advisor was easily among the most respected mathematicians in the country, was insistent that getting 9 hours of sleep each night was a job responsbility of being a mathematician. On top of that, it was well known among his grad students that the most sure-fire way to excuse oneself from a mathematical discussion that was getting rather too long, was to need to go and eat.