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by H8crilA 1308 days ago
If you're working 8 hours and do at least 4 breaks per day - that's a break every 2 hours. If you do a break you might as well skim through emails and do some reviews. And remember that everything* is Pareto distributed, the review request sizes too. It's really not hard at all.

[*] it's an exaggeration, but close to reality.
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screamingninja 1308 days ago
> If you do a break you might as well skim through emails and do some reviews.

That's not exactly a break...

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H8crilA 1308 days ago
Well, after or before the break. The point is you're going to lose context completely anyhow.

And I'd like to stress the distribution of the "complexity of a review", which you can crudely approximate with something like number of lines changed. Most of them will be small.

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pavon 1308 days ago
When I'm on a break, I'm pretty much always mulling my task on the back of my mind, and doing things that don't require concentration, so when I get back from the break I'm still largely in the same frame of mind. Doing code reviews definitely forces a sharper shift of mind and takes longer to switch back from than a break does. Sometimes it is worthwhile, but it does have a cost.
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