Notifications: uselessness of

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 07:36 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> ke, 2009-02-25 kello 12:05 -0600, Ted Gould kirjoitti:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 19:14 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > > Notifications are always interruptions. When something new pops up on
> > > the screen, it interrupts my thought and my work, and if I'm "in the
> > > zone" (also known as "in hack mode"), that interruption may cost about
> > > fifteen minutes of effective work time.
> > 
> > First off, wow.  For Lars version 2.0 I'd recommend working on that
> > context switch time! :)  Most studies put it at a few orders of
> > magnitude lower.
> 
> All studies I've heard of say the time to get back into the zone, or
> flow, is around fifteen minutes for most people. See Peopleware, for
> example.

Its certainly a minimum of that for me; for really deep things it can be
nearly an hour: When I'm trying to get that sort of work done, I drop
off IRC, close my browser, email client, everything. But I find its also
geared to the depth and nature of the interruption. 'Honey I'm heading
out for coffee' - no issue. 'Quick, look at this clip on youtube' ->
bah, state-drop.

-Rob
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