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How ethanol can make you a better programmer (Hacking While Drunk)

• stuff4ben 17y ago
  Funny article, but some aspects are true. I've found that there is a careful balance between imbibing alcohol and programming that you must follow. Too little alcohol and there's really no point in doing it. Too much alcohol and it's goodnight me and a WTF was I doing last night realization the next morning. Seriously, sometimes drinking a little helps loosen me up and I've even come up with solutions to programming mental-blocks that stumped me for hours after a beer or two.
  • nopassrecover 17y ago
    It's called the Ballmer peak - see http://xkcd.com/323/ http://xkcd.com/323/
    • stuff4ben 17y ago
      HA! I'd actually seen that one before but I honestly didn't remember it when I wrote my comment above. Subconsciously my mind was telling me what I already knew.
• keefe 17y ago
  For me, it can really help when I am trying to solve a problem, not when I am trying to code it up. I still believe coding is only 10% typing code and I still find typing code tedious. I will drink during tedious work like building product...