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Nine straight hours. Holy crap. I'm sure we've all had marathon sessions from time to time, but maintaining enough composure to keep the livestream going for that long (without breaks?) sounds extremely challenging.

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> Nine straight hours. Holy crap.

Day in the life of a full-time software dev.

Six of those hours (on a good day) would be spent in meetings, answering emails, helping interns, giving code reviews for colleagues, writing documents, reviewing documents, getting lunch/snacks/coffee, waiting in line for the bathroom or elevator, and attempting to recover focus when you return to your desk after any of the above.

Interviewing, writing up interviews, teaching people how to do interviews, doing candidate feedback meetings where you sync up with other people who interviewed...

Then there are days when you really do code.

Those are _good_ days.

Where do you work that enables this? Sounds amazing.

In my 22 or so years of writing software professionally I don't think there's ever been a day where I or anyone I've worked with actually coded for 9 straight hours. This is not typical.

I dabble until I need to get things done then everything in my head comes out in 8+ hour sprints. I have a livestream that's 28 hours long.

Minus someone or in this case everyone looking over your shoulder the entire time while doing something that's pretty much never been done before. I don't care where you work, this is impressive.

> Minus ...

Plus going home and working on your FOSS side project for another three or four hours.

Do you not eat lunch or get up to go for walks?

There have been times when in fact no.

GeoHotz has a ten hour livestream of him coding up SLAM.

Absolute madlad.

Actually, it depends on your age.

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