[Catalyst] Re: plat_forms contest started -- user feedback requested

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> [2007-01-25 18:20]:
> On 25 Jan 2007, at 16:50, Boris Ćeranić wrote:
> >It would be interesting to see how are they going to survive
> >30 hours of work... Are they going to catch some sleep at all,
> >etc...
> 
> 30hrs isn't really that much for a dev burn - I've pulled
> shifts that  long pretty often during heavy hacking without a
> problem. It's when  you get to around the 3 day mark without
> having had more than a  couple hours sleep that it starts to
> get painful.

The really bad thing is not a single 30-hour day, it’s when
you’re doing a long string of 12- to 18-hour days.

Sleep deprivation when well rested is actually documented to
have a bunch of psychotropic effects including mild euphoria.
Anyone who has stayed up long enough to get a weird sense of
humour knows this first hand.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>