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I'm pretty sure Jeff lives in the US, but judging from his activity, I'm not sure. He seems to be alive at 2am(Central) and I also see him at 9am. Sure, this is 7 hours difference for him to sleep, but doesn't he have things to do like eat, look after his hygene and other things?

Clearly, a human would not have such crazy posting habits, and therefore I propose that Jeff is an alien that hates bacon and does not sleep.

On a different note, I don't see Joel often, but it's usually at around 1am.. Clearly Jeff and Joel are the same person! Hence the whole SO operation is a cover up for illegal rep gaming!! No one is safe!

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    sleepingtime.org/codinghorror
    – Nick Dandoulakis
    Commented Apr 22, 2010 at 7:15
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    @Nick D: Sorry Nick, I saw your comment just after I posted my answer.
    – Mehper C. Palavuzlar
    Commented Apr 22, 2010 at 7:17
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    @Nick, @Mehper: i wouldn't trust that site. they seem to think that Arizona is a time zone. they are obviously run by those shady Ozzies.
    – quack quixote
    Commented Apr 22, 2010 at 7:51
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    I've posted at 4-5 in the morning (local time)...
    – perbert
    Commented Apr 22, 2010 at 17:54
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    Wait a minute, bacon and vampire are valid tags?? Meta SO really is a weird place...
    – Chris Frederick
    Commented Jul 17, 2011 at 5:10
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    @Chris you should have seen it before tag synonyms. We also had tags for random people, tags like "always-friday-in-iceland" and other random things. But those days of jokes-gone-too-far are gone, sadly
    – Earlz
    Commented Jul 17, 2011 at 19:03

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According to his Twitter activity, he is more likely to sleep between 4 a.m. and 12 p.m. (or 8 hours)

Here is the link to the source.

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    Kinda Creepy...
    – Kyle Brandt
    Commented Apr 22, 2010 at 15:01
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    @kyle, the site? indeed
    – juan
    Commented Apr 22, 2010 at 20:40
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    That's a neat site
    – Michael Haren
    Commented Apr 23, 2010 at 1:26
  • @Jon_Skeet is a 9-5'er! sleepingtime.org/jonskeet
    – rlb.usa
    Commented Apr 23, 2010 at 18:39
  • @rlb.usa: I'm not surprised. I've learned that, among other things, in the long run it's regular sleep what makes you most productive. (But then, I'm old, and Jon isn't.)
    – sbi
    Commented Apr 24, 2010 at 8:33
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    12 p.m., right?
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Jul 17, 2011 at 3:23
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    Kinda tempted to rollback now. ;) @Anna
    – Jon Seigel
    Commented Jul 17, 2011 at 12:31
  • what's wrong about that? at least he has regular sleeping hours (not many of us do)
    – prusswan
    Commented Jan 25, 2012 at 13:30
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    "The sleeping pattern was determined after analyzing the last 666 tweets of codinghorror. The person is located in Bay Area, CA that follows the Arizona time zone."
    – Qix - MONICA WAS MISTREATED
    Commented Dec 20, 2012 at 2:31
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Some birds sleep with half of their brain at a time while making long migration trips. Perhaps Jeff has mastered this art - during the hours when both hemispheres are available, he programs. When he's working with only one hemisphere, he participates in Meta :)

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    I've never seen someone use more tact and subtlety to call someone else a birdbrain...! ;-P
    – Pollyanna
    Commented Apr 23, 2010 at 2:32
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    @Pollyanna Calling somebody "birdbrained" in this context isn't exactly an insult ;) Context. Context. Context.
    – Sampson
    Commented Apr 23, 2010 at 4:44
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    This goes a long way toward explaining why so many cases come back status-norepro or status-bydesign.
    – Aarobot
    Commented Apr 24, 2010 at 15:33
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No. Of course not. Sleep is just an inefficient replacement for caffeine.

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I understand he has a baby, so he probably can't count on keeping any sort of realistic sleep schedule at all.

here, have a bunny baby!
(source: pollsb.com)

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    Where's the waffle? There should be a waffle. Why don't I see a waffle?
    – Pops
    Commented Apr 23, 2010 at 1:09
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    the baby ate it; check back later
    – Steven A. Lowe
    Commented Apr 23, 2010 at 1:21
  • @steven: hahahaha that's good!
    – studiohack
    Commented Apr 23, 2010 at 2:24
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    @steven - I'm stealing that for future use
    – Antony
    Commented Apr 23, 2010 at 3:51
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    @antony - that could be misinterpreted..
    – Antony
    Commented Apr 23, 2010 at 3:51
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    One baby bunny, two baby bunnies, three ... zzzZZzzz
    – rlb.usa
    Commented Apr 23, 2010 at 18:39
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This question is too esay.

Your answer: NO.

I recommend you not to believe the other answers!

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  • My answer is "no"? You're right! I do not need sleep!
    – Mateen Ulhaq
    Commented Nov 22, 2011 at 6:27

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