Great article. Spot on. The shower example is Beej.

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Programming is hard work. It’s an intense mental activity. Good programmers think about their work 24/7. They write their most important code in the shower and in their dreams. Because the most important work is done away from a keyboard, software projects cannot be accelerated by spending more time in the office or adding more people to a project.

[Source: www.alexschreyer.net]

So I am dying to write a little about Army Ants but I want to make sure I do it right, so until then I will write a quick blurb about a dream I had last night.

I don’t remember quite what was going on, but I remember the outcome. I think I was chatting with someone … but what we were chatting about is irrelevant. At some part of our conversation, my dream returned an out of bounds enumeration which my brain didn’t have a condition for. This, for one reason or another, lead the subsequent dream function to enter an infinite for loop. My dream hung up for a few seconds before the debugger caught it and I woke up with a very sudden jolt. As metaphorical as that may seem, that’s actually how it played out in my head and what I remembered when I woke up.

I have been working on Army Ants literally all day every day, from wake up to bed. I get to school between 8 am and 10 am and leave around 10 pm or later and typically during that time I will be neglecting all of my classes except for Army Ants. Saturday and Sunday cannot escape the wrath of Army Ants.

I need a vacation.