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I'm not a coder; but I had a friend who would often code high or drunk. And in a very competitive CS program; he was very very good.
by sachitgupta 16y ago
I'm not a coder; but I had a friend who would often code high or drunk. And in a very competitive CS program; he was very very good.
- icegreentea 16y agoAbout the drunk part, that Ballmer peak XKCD comic? I've found it to be more or less true for mental tasks. When I (and some classmates) have been lightly buzzed, we seem to work better (in certain respects). For example, when solving physics problems, we become much better/faster at coming up with solutions (granted, we'll probably end up making more calculation errors). This led me to doing all my assignments first buzzed, and then recopying them out and rechecking the calculations (my writing is horrible, the recopying was required anyways) later when sober. Of course, when finals rolled around, I had to spend 3 solids days practicing physics while sober again. It was weird.