On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:40:00 -0700 (PDT), Deirdre Saoirse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> >Last night, I was so deep in hack mode, I didn't realize it was 8:30. I
> >just thought everyone had gone off somewhere at work. :)
>
> See, this is what I can't do anymore. I used to be able to get into
> this kind of a "zone" and spend literally days hacking on a problem
> (my record is 71 hours). I can't do this any more, for reasons which
> are not entirely clear to me.
I would say it's more likely you can't do it "now" rather than "anymore."
Hack mode is a zen state and not even zen masters can get into it all the
time. :) At times in my 24 years of programming, the state has been harder
to get into than others.
<submerging back into hack mode>
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