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How many hours can you be really productive per day? How? [closed]

I find that I'm having a great deal of trouble staying alert 8 hours per day. I've heard of people who've negotiated work contracts of just 4 hours/day, arguing that they won't be able to do much more ...
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Is there any scholarly research on the detrimental effects of a noisy workplace on productivity? [closed]

I work in an open office with typical office noise (people talking and walking by). It is simply too noisy and restless for me to work in. I've been trying and trying to get some change, to no avail. ...
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What do you do to keep distractions away? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do you stay focused at work? As you can see many thing mentioned here can distract a programmer and it takes time got catch the same rhythm. How can we avoid ...
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Programming by dictation?

ie. you speak out the code, and someone else across the room types it in Anyone tried this? Obviously the person taking the dictation would need to be a coder too, so you didn't have to explain ...