> During the Q&A, someone in the audience told him about the Ballmer Peak—the notion, named after the former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, that alcohol can affec

> During the Q&A, someone in the audience told him about the Ballmer Peak—the notion, named after the former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, that alcohol can affect programming ability. Drink a certain amount, and it gets better. Drink too much, and it goes to hell. Some programmers have been rumored to hook themselves up to alcohol-filled IV drips in hopes of hovering at the curve’s apex for an extended time. This is almost certainly someone along the game of telephone taking the xkcd joke literally https://xkcd.com/323/ https://xkcd.com/323/ (the alt text says Apple uses schnapps IV’s - this is obviously not true in the comic context but someone along the way to printing this article “bit the Onion”)