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Stand up while coding

Postby Czarek » Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:23 am

Apparently it's healthy and you get more productive, we'll see.

Inspired by answers here:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/qu ... e-standing

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Re: Stand up while coding

Postby magreenblatt » Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:44 am

Nice creative solution :-)
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Re: Stand up while coding

Postby JRub » Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:55 am

Nice but... is that actually better, for health and productivity ?
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Re: Stand up while coding

Postby Czarek » Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:06 am

JRub wrote:Nice but... is that actually better, for health and productivity ?

Sitting for 12 hours a day is not healthy, that is for sure, we are not adjusted to sitting lifestyle, remember that not so long ago we were jumping on trees ;) Some obvious consequences of too much sitting are problems with your back or circulation (cold feet/hands anyone?).

I remember reading about these standup desks a year ago or so, but there is no such stuff to buy here in Poland, I've found one but it costs 1000$ (uhh!), on stackexcahange (link in 1st post) they say in USA you can buy such desk for 100-200$, I've stumbled across that question today and a bulb lightened in my head, now I got one at no cost.
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Re: Stand up while coding

Postby magreenblatt » Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:20 am

Getting up and walking around every 20mins is also a good approach according to doctors I've talked to.
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Re: Stand up while coding

Postby Czarek » Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:29 am

magreenblatt wrote:Getting up and walking around every 20mins is also a good approach according to doctors I've talked to.

Making breaks is important, I even wrote a program to remind that, there was a topic here on CEF about it, it's called 5 minute break:
http://code.google.com/p/5minutebreak/

But it's sometimes so hard to get up, when you have something to finish and making a break gets you distracted and you end up sitting for many hours, I got this often, you even forgot to eat. After a few hours of standing today I got a really big appetite.
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