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A very interesting article on how programmers' brains work: http://the-programmers-stone.com/about/
"Most programmers have at some point experienced the horrific evaporation of their state when they get the wrong kind of interruption... Hours of state acquisition have been lost, and the programmer is good for nothing for the rest of the day.
In neurological terms we can understand this perfectly. The [interruption] has forced the programmer into stress modulated focussed attention, and the ability of his or her brain to hold the program that is already there is lost."
I can certainly resonate very strongly with this feeling of being in a certain specific state of mind, that has been building up for quite a while, just to be ruined by a seemingly minor interruption. It's interesting to see this guy try to put a (sort of) theoretical base under it.
"Most programmers have at some point experienced the horrific evaporation of their state when they get the wrong kind of interruption... Hours of state acquisition have been lost, and the programmer is good for nothing for the rest of the day.
In neurological terms we can understand this perfectly. The [interruption] has forced the programmer into stress modulated focussed attention, and the ability of his or her brain to hold the program that is already there is lost."
I can certainly resonate very strongly with this feeling of being in a certain specific state of mind, that has been building up for quite a while, just to be ruined by a seemingly minor interruption. It's interesting to see this guy try to put a (sort of) theoretical base under it.