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I once got really ill and went into a high fever, the whole time in my head I was debugging myself with code, was very strange. Other then that I never dream o
by nul_byte 10y ago
I once got really ill and went into a high fever, the whole time in my head I was debugging myself with code, was very strange.
Other then that I never dream of code, but sometimes when I am half asleep in bed I start thinking about issues and playing out scenarios I could try to fix something, or implement a new feature.
- wolfgang42 10y agoI've had this happen once, and it was not a pleasant experience. (Try setting a breakpoint on your own brain sometime and see how much you like it.) Kenneth Reitz, who wrote Python's requests library, went crazy[1] (his words) and had a similar experience, though his was psychosis-induced rather than fever-induced. > The earth represented an "ideal" logical volume of data (life), and the universe was the collective storage LUN. I was using Amazon's Dynamo algorithm to replicate life, with eventual consistency, throughout the universe by watering plants in the garden. Now, Amazon actually uses Requests to perform all internal API control operations for AWS, effectively making my code partially responsible for the operation of the internet itself. See the theme? [...] I was very keen to have the doctors and my family look up the Dynamo whitepaper, to prove the legitimacy of my quest. 1: https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exc...