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“The Tetris effect (also known as Tetris syndrome) occurs when people devote so much time and attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images, and dreams” 99% of debugging happens on the toilet. I’ve been doing this for decades, and I still often forget that the best thing to do when I hit a wall is to queue up some good music and take an hour long walk or bike ride. I had to stop coding right before going to bed because of this. Instead of falling asleep, my mind would start spinning incoherently, thinking in terms of programming constructs (loops, arrays, structs, etc.) about random or even undefined stuff, resulting in complete nonsense but mentally exhausting. I dreamt about 68k assembly once. Figured that probably wasn’t healthy. Only once? I might have gone off the deep end. Just be thankful it wasn’t x86 assembly! I said dream, not nightmare. Don’t you mean unreal mode? being chased by segment descriptors only got flat 24bit addresses, got to cal

Have you ever experienced Tetris syndrome with programming? What was your experience? | Lobsters 31 Have you ever experienced Tetris syndrome with programming? What was your experience? ☶ ask programming authored by epilys 4 years ago | 43 comments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect "The Tetris effect (also known as Tetris syndrome) occurs when people devote so much time and attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images, and dreams" 41 EnderShadow8 4 years ago 99% of debugging happens on the toilet. 20 robey 4 years ago I've been doing this fo

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