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Yeah, this reminds me a lot of the "Impossibly Hungry Judges" problem[0].

[0] http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges

> If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45 a.m.

...this has potential!

Scrape GitHub, find closed issues marked 'bug', do a blame on the offending line or lines, find the timestamp and plot.

Has potential for the exact same selection bias as the judge study, you mean? See if we can discover some impossibly hungry programmers.

It would be a pita to control for time zones, or even culturally different lunch times and eating habits

Git commits do embed a timezone in the commit timestamp. And while lunchtime will vary by person, there may still be a visible effect around common lunchtimes over a large number of people.

Time is an illusion; lunchtime, doubly so.

The hypothesis I would personally register is that bugs increase after 5:30 PM, and that this effect drops off in late evening hours.

Basically, that compelling one's employees to stay late is an anti-pattern, where one loses more than one gains.

I read this as 'pita' as in 'pita bread'. A clever reference to lunch time if that was the intention? Culturally different too as we don't often eat pita for lunch here, but I imagine it's common elsewhere.

Having been through the court system twice, from experience I've seen dockets arranged so that more severe cases are saved for last, and cases with a quick disposition (like probation or fine) are taken care of first.

Edit: This allows the law officials to remove offenders faster from the courtroom.

This is a great article. The original paper was in my head as a truth, and I've revised that since reading this post. Thanks!

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