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Poll: How Much Time per Week on Hacking/Programming Related Stuff?

4 points by alanthonyc ↗ HN
What with all the familial and social obligations that crop up this time of year (let alone work), I've been hard pressed to focus time on my side projects. It's Sunday afternoon, my friends are out and about, and I'm planning to spend the rest of the day on my computer. (It's a tradeoff, but no regrets for the choice I'm making.)

So...how much time do you spend each week on the computer and reading about hacky stuff? Include work time if that's what you do for work.

(Also, please excuse my editorializing on the options below, it's just for fun. Anything more than 80 hours a week is in the same bucket, as far as I'm concerned.)

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zck
For me, there's a big difference between "being at the computer" and "doing something worthwhile". Even reading HN is at the detriment of doing something productive. It would be a lot lower if we only counted time getting things done.
alanthonyc
Oh, I know what you mean. But satisfaction of curiosity counts as hackerly, even if nothing immediately productive comes of it. I'm just wondering how much time we spend on this particular interest to the detriment of all other things in our life.
jacquesm
81-112 but plenty of that goes up on maintenance, email, statistics gathering business related stuff. I'm happy if half that goes in to productive (as in new working code) stuff.