{"id":28373,"date":"2018-02-10T20:40:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28373"},"modified":"2018-02-10T20:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T18:40:12","slug":"this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-a-programmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/10\/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-a-programmer\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why you shouldn’t interrupt a programmer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Yup.\u00a0 This is exactly why you shouldn’t interrupt a programmer<\/a>.\u00a0 It takes him at least a few minutes to get back to where he was, irrelevant how brief and unimportant the interruption was.\u00a0 And that’s why we invented managers (interrupt them all you want!), asynchronous communication (emails, ticketing systems, etc), and other tools and processes.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Yup.\u00a0 This is exactly why you shouldn’t interrupt a programmer.\u00a0 It takes him at least a few minutes to get back to where he was, irrelevant how brief and unimportant the interruption was.\u00a0 And that’s why we invented managers (interrupt them all you want!), asynchronous communication (emails, ticketing systems, etc), and other tools and processes.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"This is why you shouldn't interrupt a programmer #WebDev #productivity","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[580,1079,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-management","tag-productivity","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27362,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/19\/programmer-interrupted\/","url_meta":{"origin":28373,"position":0},"title":"Programmer Interrupted","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Slashdot runs a thread on \"Are Remote Software Teams More Productive?\". \u00a0The original post links to a few research references that, unsurprisingly, show how expensive interruptions are to programmers, and how unprepared we are, as an industry, to deal with this problem. \u00a0I particularly liked a rather in-depth look at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7965,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/27\/interrupt-pathological-media-simulated-social-interaction\/","url_meta":{"origin":28373,"position":1},"title":"Interrupt Pathological, Media-Simulated Social Interaction","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Excellent experiment! 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