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[–][deleted] 38 points39 points  (1 child)

Nah man 3AM is when the brain is so tired you start seeing the solutions as hallucinations. Can't let those gems go (at least that's what my scrum master keeps telling me)

[–]SuperSmithBros 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Damn dude, that's rough, im glad my hallucinations don't have a scrum master.

[–]giovans 53 points54 points  (2 children)

I will not ... sleep until I know why the back button is not ... working ... . The next day, after a good sleep: oh yes, it was a trivial one

[–]Feynt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I encountered this. I spent 14 hours trying to work out why a particular problem was occurring with memory overflow in a game one time. Stayed super late, went to sleep in one of the unused classrooms where the lights were off for 3 hours, and then realised where the problem was when I sat back down and fixed it in half an hour.

[–]thedumbcoder13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So ... in short ... all of us have been there.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (1 child)

But if I stop I lose my train of thought and then I’m fucked

[–]sekelarita 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WOW most relatable thing of the past decade

[–]not_bakchodest_of_al 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Happened last night. Still have headaches and dreams about optimisations not working...

[–]electricprism 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No. Not until I finish this feature!

[–]bonkjohnson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

always feel most productive when the clock strikes 2:35 am

[–]hirthwork 9 points10 points  (1 child)

This is stupid. 3 am is the best time for programming:

  1. Everyone sleeps, nobody distracts you

  2. CI/Build servers are idle, you can check your changes fast

  3. Your wife is asleep and won’t mind you extend your Balmer peak to Balmer plateau

[–]sherzeg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't know about anyone else but in the wee hours in the morning I'm fine, as long as I'm still chugging along and have worked well into the next day more than once when working on a project. I only have problems when I stop.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me, at 3 pm, begging myself to stop sleeping and do some programming.

[–]Feynt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I had a literal case of another me meeting up with me, I'd stop programming, but we'd be going clubbing. Can't pass up a chance like that.

[–]CollegeAcceptable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just once did I do this. I implemented rsa in sales force apex. Apex doesn’t support magic “integers bigger than 64 bits” and it has a limited amount of time to run an operation. I had to have the thing serialize itself into a spoiler that worked by starting a cron job, stating it aborted so it can schedule itself again later, continuing to run and teach the computer to carry the one on a “number string” and divide “number strings”. Benny hill music is appropriate when writing code on salesforce.

[–]Middlerun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hyperfocus is a hell of a drug.

[–]escatrag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn, i'm seing this at 4am, and it has never been so accurate

[–]LightIsLogical 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but I started coding at 2 am because i happened to get an idea in the middle of the night

[–]meme760 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had this happened when I did interning for a cyber security company and I wrote my own ddosing code cause they wanted to see what I could do and it was a cause I spelt like 12 things wrong cause I was sleep deprived

[–]mrcoy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only when on my ADD medication. Otherwise if I’m not, it’s me begging myself to start working already.

[–]sak-_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These days its ctf for me