#99801 - tepples - Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:15 am
There is another member of the household. She pays the bills and I don't. When she is not working: - She won't let me use the air conditioner, even in 84degF (29degC) weather. The build-up of sweat on my face distracts me.
- To compensate for the lack of air-conditioning, she runs a loud fan in every room. The noise distracts me.
- To hide the fan noise, she listens to talk radio. The words distract me.
Does anybody else manage to get any coding done despite similar distractions?
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#99804 - darkfader - Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:23 am
I'm too easily agitated by anything. Even when my door is closed and I don't have any music on, I keep hearing things. When I put on loud music, it's better. But that doesn't work when the door in my room is open (which is nice for a breeze).
Perhaps try some headphones that has anti-sound and little coolers in it :)
[edit]Oh right. Almost next to us is a school+yard so it's nothing but screaming during school pauzes.[/edit]
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#99811 - MrD - Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:22 am
| tepples wrote: |
There is another member of the household. She pays the bills and I don't. When she is not working: - She won't let me use the air conditioner, even in 84degF (29degC) weather. The build-up of sweat on my face distracts me.
- To compensate for the lack of air-conditioning, she runs a loud fan in every room. The noise distracts me.
- To hide the fan noise, she listens to talk radio. The words distract me.
Does anybody else manage to get any coding done despite similar distractions? |
Not a chance.
Somebody else in the room, somebody talking outside, I run out of music to listen to, I run out of OJ: coding's over.
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#99823 - knight0fdragon - Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:10 am
sounds like somebody is whipped wha-pa
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#99839 - sgeos - Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:58 am
I code late at night, when it is quiet (and maybe cool). You could try, uhh... architecture design in the summer and coding in fall and winter? (Not sure how hot your fall is though.)
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#99853 - chishm - Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:13 am
| tepples wrote: |
- To compensate for the lack of air-conditioning, she runs a loud fan in every room. The noise distracts me.
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Explain to her that the cooling effects of a fan work by removing hot air from around your body. If no body (double meaning intended) is around to have their heat removed, the fan is doing more harm than good. The motor adds to the heat in the room and the fan is wasting electricity (and therefore money).
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#99983 - sgeos - Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:13 am
| chishm wrote: |
| Explain to her that the cooling effects of a fan work by removing hot air from around your body. If no body (double meaning intended) is around to have their heat removed, the fan is doing more harm than good. The motor adds to the heat in the room and the fan is wasting electricity (and therefore money). |
I don't know the person, but I honestly can't see this explanation
working with anyone who runs a fan in every room. (I might be wrong.)
Is there any air circulation? You might consider pointing one fan out
the window, and another in front of another window pointing into the
room. (Not that this helps if you don't want fans in the first place.)
If somebody else pays the bills, then you are essentially a guest.
It is within their power to tell you to leave so upsetting them is
generally not a good idea. (It all depends on what kind of a
relationship you have with the other person. Some parents would
never kick their children out of the house, etc.)
The heat is the only thing I can give advice on (ice pack, hachimaki).
Are the fans and radio run at night? Is typing or staying up late
at night taboo?
-Brendan
#100000 - StoneCypher - Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:42 am
... you could just put on some headphones.
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#100022 - psycorpse - Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:36 pm
Well those 3 issues don't stop me from coding but I don't get too much time because of these reasons.
1. Wife works the same hours as me and wants me to spend the rest of the night with her.... every night.
2. She is pregnant and very emotional...
#100046 - keldon - Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:44 pm
#100048 - lenney - Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:47 pm
go and pick up "daft punk". there new album is awesome for coding. also, i saw somewhere in japan that they now have air conditioned jackets that you can buy.
#100112 - darkfader - Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:14 am
Also get the Thanko USB seat cooler.
For playing games you can try the Logitech's ChillStream controller.
Say, where does that portable airco leave the heat?
#100118 - Flood_of_SYNs - Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:25 am
My friend has a 9000BTU portable A/C unit in his room, and it has a single duct to the outside.
| Wikipedia wrote: |
| Portable A/C comes in two forms, split and monoblock. Monoblock systems have either one or two 4? or 6? air ducts which are vented to the outside. The single duct monoblock unit is often ineffective because air is pumped out of the room. This air is then replaced by hot air from outside, thus reducing efficiency. One simple method to counteract this undesirable effect is to attach a box to the back of the unit where the air is drawn over the condenser, and add some additional ducting to essentially convert the unit to twin pipe. This hack is reputed to be able to build up a much greater temperature difference than a single pipe unit. |
I will have to tell him about the twin pipe hack for a single pipe system.
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#100589 - Valmond - Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:39 pm
This summer the air conditioning didn't work at work, I
didn't write a single line in 3 weeks (got up to 36? inside, sweating
without moving uh) so I didn't have to spend like 3 weeks debugging... :)
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