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Reminds me of Hemingway's "Write drunk, edit sober."

by gautamnarula 5y ago

edoceo 5y ago
Not for code tho. I've never seen booze help make good code
- tsimionescu 5y ago
  There was an old xkcd about this, though I will admit I have never experienced this: https://xkcd.com/323/ https://xkcd.com/323/
  - topkai22 5y ago
    Oh the Ballmer peak definitely exists for POCs, school work and side projects. A couple beers in and then you lose the fear of doing something stupid and start cranking out code. Not sure about producfion code though, the values are different
    - edoceo 5y ago
      I'll admit to banging out v0.0.0 code with a buzz. Mostly it's comments and shit-code as documentation. Sober eyes and test cases before production. So maybe write drunk, edit sober does work
      - disgruntledphd2 5y ago
        Write drunk, test sober?
    - xzel 5y ago
      Sort of a guilty secret but I used to save POC work for right after a company talk or party and a few beers. I could spew out a few hundred lines of code that was a bit messy but was got the job done. I’d go over it and clean it all up the next morning. Almost always an incredibly productive exercise for me but ymmv.
- hutzlibu 5y ago
  Alcohol really does not help me with code either (except maybe a relaxing beer), but Marijuhana works(occasionally). But you really, really need to do the sober clean up part. Otherwise it becomes a mess.
  - denton-scratch 5y ago
    I cannot work while stoned - velocity drops to a crawl, and any complexity becomes overwhelming. And dealing with colleagues becomes much more difficult. I can code with a few drinks in me; in fact the activity of coding seems to reduce the amount I drink (I'm a functioning alcoholic). It's decades since I drank during working hours. In my early career in the City, it was the custom to drink at lunchtime. Those days are passed.
- dhosek 5y ago
  In college, being drunk once helped me figure out an issue with some PostScript code I was writing.
rewgs 5y ago
I find “write sober, review drunk” to be much better advice.
- lukifer 5y ago
  https://theuserisdrunk.com/ https://theuserisdrunk.com/
nojokes 5y ago
Write code drunk, write tests sober?

Reminds me of Hemingway's "Write drunk, edit sober."

edoceo 5y ago

Not for code tho. I've never seen booze help make good code

tsimionescu 5y ago
There was an old xkcd about this, though I will admit I have never experienced this: https://xkcd.com/323/ https://xkcd.com/323/
- topkai22 5y ago
  Oh the Ballmer peak definitely exists for POCs, school work and side projects. A couple beers in and then you lose the fear of doing something stupid and start cranking out code. Not sure about producfion code though, the values are different
  - edoceo 5y ago
    I'll admit to banging out v0.0.0 code with a buzz. Mostly it's comments and shit-code as documentation. Sober eyes and test cases before production. So maybe write drunk, edit sober does work
    - disgruntledphd2 5y ago
      Write drunk, test sober?
  - xzel 5y ago
    Sort of a guilty secret but I used to save POC work for right after a company talk or party and a few beers. I could spew out a few hundred lines of code that was a bit messy but was got the job done. I’d go over it and clean it all up the next morning. Almost always an incredibly productive exercise for me but ymmv.
hutzlibu 5y ago
Alcohol really does not help me with code either (except maybe a relaxing beer), but Marijuhana works(occasionally). But you really, really need to do the sober clean up part. Otherwise it becomes a mess.
- denton-scratch 5y ago
  I cannot work while stoned - velocity drops to a crawl, and any complexity becomes overwhelming. And dealing with colleagues becomes much more difficult. I can code with a few drinks in me; in fact the activity of coding seems to reduce the amount I drink (I'm a functioning alcoholic). It's decades since I drank during working hours. In my early career in the City, it was the custom to drink at lunchtime. Those days are passed.
dhosek 5y ago
In college, being drunk once helped me figure out an issue with some PostScript code I was writing.

rewgs 5y ago

I find “write sober, review drunk” to be much better advice.

lukifer 5y ago
https://theuserisdrunk.com/ https://theuserisdrunk.com/

nojokes 5y ago

Write code drunk, write tests sober?