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M-F 8 hours a day at work, 7-7.5 of which are programming. Pair programming exclusively; if my pair isn't there, I'm not doing anything more complex than fixing a broken test, writing a new one, or maybe CSS/layout changes.

This leaves me pretty tired on the weekdays, so I read HN but generally stay away from coding for myself (maybe 30 minutes to an hour). Weekends I don't do much more. Somewhere between one and four hours total between both days.

I'd like to code more in my free time (currently I lurk the internet or play games), but coming from a full day of pairing, after having only ever paired while writing production code, I find attempting to sit by myself and produce quite a bit harder.

edit: Oh, and I'm not at a startup.



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