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Comment by ZanyProgrammer | Hacker News Reader

It's interesting that in almost every sleep related article I've read on HN, the overwhelming majority of people who respond about their personal life say that they hate getting up 'early'-for various definitions of early. Surely there are programmers who like getting up early?

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I like getting up around 5:30 or so. Puts me outside the heaviest traffic times and gives me a few hours in the morning of uninterrupted time to mind meld with the computer. And then I get to leave 'early' in the afternoon and enjoy my free time and plentiful daylight.

Personally, I prefer to miss rush hour on the other side of it ;)

Perhaps they aren't posting on message boards during the workday.

I love being up early but find maintaining an early schedule extremely difficult.

When I was younger I preferred staying up late and working and it allowed me to get a lot done. As I've gotten older and now have a family, things have flipped and now I much prefer to start my work day early, usually around 6am. This gives me more family time in the afternoon/evenings.

Pretty much useless for me given that my wife rarely it's at home before 7.30 and I'm there before 5..

There a lot of programmers in my company who are in super early and leave by 2-3pm. But I think most of them do it out of necessity because either they have kids or they have long commutes.

If I wake up before 8 for work I feel physically tired. In my current job I'm waking up at 7.30 everyday and I feel that I lost 10-20% of productivity. And it is not strictly correlated with lack of sleep because now I'm sleeping at 10.30-11.30 pm. I can do my best work when I have no mandatory early show in the office and I can arrive whenever I want between 9 to 10, ideally after a nice 30 minutes walk to wake up properly.

I like getting up early since everyone else likes getting in late and leaving late. For example if I arrive at 6 and they at 10 I will get 4 undisturbed hours of work. To get the same amount on the other end I would have to arrive at 3 in the evening.

I'm an early riser, I do the majority of my work in the mornings.

I like getting up early, where early is defined as 6am to 6:30am.

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