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As a coder I do a lot of my best work with a beer or two.
by nicky0 8y ago
As a coder I do a lot of my best work with a beer or two.
- flyingfences 8y agoGotta hit that Ballmer Peak. https://www.xkcd.com/323/ https://www.xkcd.com/323/
- vishbar 8y agoThere's definitely a different style of development, in my experience. After a few beers or when very sleep-deprived, I find myself avoiding "analysis paralysis" and just getting something written, even if it's not super elegant. There can definitely be a benefit to doing that, though I wouldn't recommend slamming shots at 9am before the workday starts!
- onemoresoop 8y agoI second that on a POC.
- sifoobar 8y agoThere are better, less poisonous and destructive, drugs. Is it really worth sacrificing your health for? It doesn't even taste nice once you cut through the cultural programming to pretend otherwise.
- SafetyThird 8y agoHaving a beer or two is not "sacrificing your health". And if liking the taste of alcoholic drinks counts as being "programmed", then so does every other preference and desire human beings have.
- sifoobar 8y agoBut it is, alcohol is very poisonous; which is why you feel like shit and loose your memory when you overdo it, and why it's so hard to hit just the right amount of poisoning to feel funny without feeling sick. Drinking poison that tastes like shit doesn't really happen without outside pressure. That's not true of every other preference and desire. But keep lying to yourself, not my problem.
- danillonunes 8y agoHaving a beer or two occasionally won’t kill you. But making it a working routine, even with such a small quantity that won’t even make you drunk, will definitely have some impact in your health in the long-term.
- booleandilemma 8y agoIt doesn't even taste nice Citation needed. Maybe you just haven’t tried a good beer yet.
- sifoobar 8y agoOh, I've drunk more quality beer than most. Stop for six months and try again if you don't believe me, once the body has detoxed it's going to start putting up a fight. I can't even smell alcohol these days, even at the levels of normal beer; it smells like gasoline.
- FakeComments 8y agoI actually like the taste of some beers. Your point seems really tied up in your own preferences and discounts other people’s experiences.
- sifoobar 8y agoKeep telling yourself that then, it's not really my problem. Or try quitting for six months and see how the body reacts to alcohol when reintroduced.
- JBReefer 8y agoYou might not like it, but this is what peak HN looks like