He's in at 6:30am and usually leaves around 6:30 or 7:00pm and he NEVER takes lunch breaks. The lead programmer on my current project works at least 60 hours every week (and has for years) and more than that about half of the time. We missed obvious architectural improvements that could have saved us days of work. We always ended up making bad mistakes that took a lot of time to clean up. The people I know who think they can do it can't do it either. One poster, jarich, says the following about working continual 60 to 80 hour weeks: In a recent Slashdot discussion entitled "Can People Really Program 80+ Hours a Week," the general consensus among most posters seems to be that programming productivity does in fact become negative after a certain number of hours worked. Although to our knowledge no in-depth research has been done to discover the relationship between productivity and hours worked in software development, substantial anecdotal evidence suggests that the results found in other fields are also valid in this one.
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