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If you need to take psychedelics to 'unlock the wonders of your mind' or whatever just to do some simple programming, software may not be the field for you.
by diadem 15y ago
If you need to take psychedelics to 'unlock the wonders of your mind' or whatever just to do some simple programming, software may not be the field for you.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoDo you drink coffee or tea?
- diadem 15y agoYes. Are they psychedelics? No. Weird how that doesn't contradict my original point at all.
- bluedanieru 15y agoSo we're restricting it to psychedelics? Any reason for that?
- bronson 15y agoWow. It sounds like your mind could use some unlocking.
- samlevine 15y agoI don't know about you, but I've never imagined myself talking to god while drinking tea.
- rick888 15y agoneither. I have realized that caffeine dulls my senses (and it makes me care less about things in general). I drink tea once-in-awhile, but generally try to avoid anything with caffeine. I also sleep much better at night.
- carussell 15y agoI don't drink coffee. I have. Sometimes I have tea when it's around. They're both very successful at doing absolutely nothing for me, so much so that up until a couple years ago, I wasn't convinced that everyone is just bullshitting about it. Much like when you'd go to a house party in high school and people who've had very little (or perhaps unknowingly, nothing at all) go on about how drunk they are.
- daralthus 15y agoIndeed, if you want to do just simple programming in your life.
- diadem 15y agoYou misunderstand. I don't mean 'simple' as in base, uncomplicated, or trivial. What I mean is there's no programming problem so complex that it requires the use of a hallucinogenic to understand or solve.
- 5l 15y agoHow do you know? Have you solved every problem there is to solve? And of all the problems you have solved, have you done so in the most elegant and efficient way possible?
- diadem 15y agoIf I haven't solved every problem there is to solve, is my assertion less true? Is your argument "There are problems in software engineering that can only be solved by dropping acid?" The best programmers in the world -- those who work together to solve the most complex and aggressive problems asked of the human mind -- are those who come to work every day, solve problems, and write code, and go home. They don't spend their time justifying "lifehacks" like taking LSD for that extra "edge" over other programmers.
- 5l 15y agoIt can't be justified, that is all. I don't know that there are problems that can only be solved only by taking LSD, but neither can I categorically say that there aren't any at all, as you just did. How do you know? That is what I asked, and you haven't answered me. You're making assertions about the best programmers in the world that you can't possibly back up. How do you know that some of them don't take LSD?
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- watty 15y agoI don't think anyone is saying it's a necessity, just arguing the benefits. I seriously doubt it enhances code quality during the trip but the ideas and ways you visualize the problem may be drastically different. I'm guessing it's kind of like those ah-ha moments in the middle of the night when you solve a difficult problem.
- chunk 15y agoin the words of dylan - "don't criticize what you can't understand"