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Cocktails for programmers
- stuaxo 13y agoEach to their own, these all look undrinkable though!
- ronaldx 13y agoChange some ingredients and A/B test them.
- leif 13y agoWith initial recipes like these, you'd quickly reach very low local maxima.
- Blahah 13y agogit history serves as a Tabu list, and different people's tastes will serve as a stochastic breakout. If lots of people have a go it will de-facto be a particle swarm tabu. Even with a single starting point there's a good chance of global optimisation.
- nicholassmith 13y agoIt's on GitHub, fork it and send a pull request. Always send pull requests sober.
- Pxtl 13y agoYeah, when I saw jmp I thought it looked impressive, but just reading the ingredients made me want to Ralph.
- skisly 13y agoNice... tomorrow will get "Python" for start I think the result will be "Memory Leak" and party will be over after "Epic Fail" :)
- tptacek 13y agoMalibu, Crème de Menthe, Jager, Triple Sec, Vodka & Coke, Kahlua. These seem like cocktails for programmers... earlier in their careers, shall we say.
- stephencanon 13y agoAgreed; the "JMP" is especially unfitting (and unappetizing).
- arethuza 13y agoI'm pretty sure I had tired of such things before I was out of my teens. I can also remember turning up at (Secondary) school with a green tongue as I had consumed rather a lot of Crème de Menthe at a party the evening before - ghastly stuff.
- huhtenberg 13y agoStudents with random access to alcohol. You drink what you have ... though it's still a poor excuse to mix vodka with cola.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoVodka + diet coke was pretty much only alcoholic beverage I was drinking when on ketogenic diet. It's quite good, actually...
- Killswitch 13y agoAny reason you chose vodka over rum?
- TeMPOraL 13y agoIt's simpler to get in bars (though they tend to run out of diet coke fast), and... well, I never bothered to check the carbohydrate contents of rum; just decided to go with the simplest option ;).
- venti 13y agoAnother cocktail is the "Tschunk", which is hugely popular with hackers here in Germany. See the recipe here: https://entropia.de/Tschunk https://entropia.de/Tschunk (the main ingredient, a carbonated, caffeinated soda called "Club-Mate" is difficult to source outside of Germany, though).
- tptacek 13y agoApparently not. Our resident native-German-speaker managed to fill our fridge with it in Chicago. Yech.
- phreeza 13y agoInfidel!
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- rplnt 13y agoAvailable in Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia with not that much trouble. Though mostly in bars/pubs and.. hackerspaces :)
- TeMPOraL 13y agoHackerspaces around the world tend to figure out how to get it. It's hard to get in Poland, and yet in Hackerspace Kraków we have a crate ;).
- moron4hire 13y agoYeah, we somehow had a ton of it at Hive76 in Philadelphia. It might still be there, if someone needs some. Nobody drinks it.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoIn ours tastes are divided - half of the people love it, another half hates it. And yet I bought a full crate last Thursday and there were only two bottles left by Friday.
- JonnieCache 13y agoNow I want a bartending robot with it's own drink-mixing DSL.
- gknoy 13y agoIt appears there's a bartending robot in the works: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/partyrobotics/bartendro-a-cocktail-dispensing-robot http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/partyrobotics/bartendro-... Now you just need an R2 to deliver them. ;)
- daGrevis 13y agoI really like Long Island Iced Tea, what about other hackers?
- chatman 13y agoMore useful is Mojito Cocktails https://github.com/yahoo/mojito https://github.com/yahoo/mojito
- wturner 13y agoI suppose 'brainfuck' would be a Absinthe mix of some sort
- rplnt 13y agoAbsinthe + pear juice is great. Also absinthe + energy drink of some sorts. Though somewhat good absinthe is necessary for it as fake/cheap brands are really horrible.
- zedpm 13y agoCan you recommend some good ones, preferably ones that are available in the US? I've heard good things about North Shore's Sirène...
- rplnt 13y agoI can't, sorry. I'm in Europe and drink mostly local ones. But you might check this out for hints http://www.reddit.com/r/absinthe http://www.reddit.com/r/absinthe
- jpea 13y agoSo, PHP is the one where they mix all of the ingredients in your liquor cabinet together and top it with a raw egg, right?
- giaour 13y agoI was thinking that the recipe for PHP would be: 1. Drink entire bottle of tequila 2. Vomit into a dirty glass 3. Drop glass
- Killswitch 13y agoAs a PHP developer who likes tequila. I'm down for this.
- TeMPOraL 13y agodrink(tequila) or die();
- christianmann 13y agoCome on, man. drink($tequila) or die();
- fein 13y agoSo close... drink($tequila) or die("Vomiting...");
- rypskar 13y agoI will more say the PHP version will be nothing fancy, have a beer kick back and relax while others try to impress with new ways of solving an old problem :)
- umsm 13y agoThat wouldn't work as there is SOME logic and reasoning to that. We'd have to come up with something else.
- westicle 13y agoA good cocktail showcases and highlights the component spirit(s) to make a more interesting and (hopefully) tasty drink. Unfortunately when cocktails are based on nasty components, they often end up trying to disguise the spirit with sugary mixers like fruit juice or coke. If you're interested in cocktails and don't mind diving in the deep end, try an authentic Sazerac: http://www.esquire.com/drinks/sazerac-drink-recipe http://www.esquire.com/drinks/sazerac-drink-recipe Remember: the point is to highlight the primary spirit, so start with something good: http://www.anchordistilling.com/spirits/old-potrero-straight-rye-whiskey http://www.anchordistilling.com/spirits/old-potrero-straight...
- vadman 13y ago+1 Felten's book ( http://www.amazon.com/Hows-Your-Drink-Cocktails-Drinking/dp/157284101X http://www.amazon.com/Hows-Your-Drink-Cocktails-Drinking/dp/... ) has a good overview of all the classic cocktails, and in general is an interesting read. I have yet to try the Sazerac, having 3 bottles of rye at home... Shame :( Also, the "original" pre-rye Sazerac was done with Cognac, gotta try that at some point as well.
- dpeck 13y agoOr maybe even some Sazerac Rye in its namesake cocktail :) http://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/brands/sazerac-rye http://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/brands/sazerac-rye
- rhizome 13y agoNB: Old Potrero is cask strength and pretty "hot."
- bookface 13y agoIt's missing the BASIC: 10 tequila 20 GOTO 10
- taternuts 13y agoI feel as if bourbon is a better drink for coding while tequila is a better drink for going out all night and puking before bed
- mixmastamyk 13y agoI'd suggest trying a better tequila.
- mtts 13y agoThere's no such thing. Tequila is nasty poor man's liquor, only made palatable to yuppy palates by insisting you can only enjoy it by inbibing in a taste bud numbing cocktail of salt and lime juice before you drink it. That said, I enjoy a good (=nasty) tequila every now and then. Just like I enjoy a good glass of paint thinner aka Moutai on occasion: give the ol' taste buds a little workout.
- asdasf 13y agoIs that supposed to be a poor attempt at satire or something?
- mixmastamyk 13y agoNo, I'm not talking about Cuervo gold, foo'... Now, get off my lawn!
- joshAg 13y agonext time you feel like tequila get a shot of don julio 1942; it might just change your mind about what tequila can be. And hey, if it doesn't it's still a damn good tequila.
- bfe 13y ago
- teddyh 13y agoThe title “Cocktails for programmers” gives me the same feeling as would the phrase “Leaf blowers for stamp collectors”. Yes, a stamp collector might use a leaf blower, but it would not be relevant to collecting stamps. On the contrary, using a leaf blower while collecting stamps would be… inadvisable.
- lucaspiller 13y agoAgreed. Further reading: http://old.ryanfunduk.com/culture-of-exclusion/ http://old.ryanfunduk.com/culture-of-exclusion/
- philwelch 13y agoI feel more excluded by people who attempt to communicate using meme images and animated gifs than by references to alcohol.
- mixmastamyk 13y agoI'd never push people to drink, but that guy gets boring quickly.
- jlgreco 13y agoI really hate board games. Seriously, I hate them, and I don't understand why so many people in my social circles enjoy them. I can't count the number of times I've been at a party and everything has been going nicely, and then all of a sudden, game time. You think maybe I should write a long-winded self-aggrandizing blog post about this culture of exclusion?
- hamburglar 13y agoI can appreciate not liking the brogrammer phenomenon, and not being interested in conferences that are so party-focused, but this guy really has a huge bug up his ass about other people enjoying themselves. "I'm not interested in 'partying hard', I want to talk with like-minded people about subjects I don't necessarily get to talk about at the office." Well, guess what, you can't force people to sit down and talk nodejs with you if they want to drink instead. Sorry the world isn't the way you really really want it to be. The guy seems to be interpreting a lot of his examples in the worst possible light, too. Example: Q: Is there space set up for hacking? A: We have done this for previous conferences, but to be honest people were having too much social fun to really take advantage of the space. Translation: Y U NO DRINKING!? That's a stupid translation. They set up hacking space before and very few people used it, so they didn't bother this time. You have your cause and effect backwards if you think this means they're trying to force you to drink. Or: "Perks for working for them include dental coverage, and 'weekly happy hour'. Those who don't want to participate in getting sloshed regularly... need not apply?" Jesus, dude, settle down. You've taken a perk of employment and turned it into a statement that if you don't drink you're not welcome? Please let go of your persecution complex. I know it's really fun to be indignant that others encouraging you to have a good time is so totally unfair, but it's really no different than people saying "No seriously, The Wire is fucking fantastic! You have to watch it!" Interacting with humans isn't that hard if you allow yourself and others to actually act like humans.
- cowls 13y agoNice ideas, though I think java is sorely missed here,
- pohl 13y agoRum & Coke: simple, gets the job done, and packed with regret.
- cowls 13y agoI was hoping for coffee based :P
- cgh 13y agoJava's drink is surely the Bloody Mary, the world's most complex cocktail. A blunt and simple central ingredient (cheap vodka/Java the language) surrounded by an ornate spice rack's worth of ingredients and preparation. http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2010/12/theres_got_to_be_a_morning_aft.php http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2010/12/theres_got_to_be_...
- ingas 13y agoHa! Do you really want a java cocktail? OK. Here is your java cocktail: 1. 50 mg of sand. Yes, you will never drink it, but it will gloriously creak on your teeth 2. Water. Put it as much as you can. If you're really into "hard staff" - use sea water. 3. Alcohol. In fact - you don't need this. But if you want - mix something. Anyway you don't have a lot of space to put a good portion of booze.
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- meerita 13y agoI don't see a campari one, :D but here goes my daily cocktail: 1. half glass of Campari bitter. 2. Ice 3. orange 4. a shot of water-soda (never use tonic or white wine, if you like it a bit more alcoholic then use some cava or champagne [sprinkledwine])
- jdminhbg 13y agoCampari and soda is a fantastic drink. Refreshing and not super high in alcohol, yet bitter instead of cloying and sweet. For future reference, since it looks like you are not a native English speaker, the phrase for non-Champagne champagne is "sparkling wine."
- meerita 13y agoThanks for the tip! the correct word in italian is "prosecco" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecco http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecco
- tbrake 13y agoReminds me that webtender is still going strong. The younguns at work were terrified of its layout and design when I showed it to them but it's a solid site.
- CmonDev 13y agoRuby, Python and Perl... So nothing strong at the moment?
- reccles 13y agoI'm surprised there isn't a "java" with some sort of coffee +liqueur. or Lua Kahlua.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoAny ideas for Lisp drink?
- drblast 13y agoWhiskey. Neat.
- BadassFractal 13y agoThe bartender hands you the bottles and the shaker, do it yourself.
- sp332 13y agoUse lots of nested martini shakers for parentheses?
- frozenport 13y agoShirley Temple.
- yawgmoth 13y agoThe C#, it turns out, is the same as a Java but with a finer stock of liqueurs. The recipe for C#.NET however, is proprietary and no one can quite explain why one in a thousand makes you ill, or why the bottom of the glass seems to fall out sometimes.
- ingas 13y agoIn which way C# and .NET is proprietary? WCF, WindowsForms, EntityFramework are proprietary. But nobody in sane mind will use them.
- Pxtl 13y agoI am proficient in all three of those technologies. I was about to object... but yeah, you're pretty much spot-on. I still say that, except for the omgwtfbbq databinding stuff, Winforms was a fine technology for its time. It's just that its time is past and MS doesn't ever update anything, they just abandon-and-replace with something horribly baroque. EF is my definition for "so close, and yet so far". I have no idea what the heck happened with WCF though. Seriously, I can't even find the kernel of good ideas that got corrupted in the process of implementation like I can with those other two.
- CmonDev 13y agoWebAPI and SignalR (backed by Microsoft) replace WCF for most of unreliable stuff. The rest should be using message queues anyways.
- ingas 13y agoWinForms - in fact is OK. It's just old. WCF and EF - "oh noes". My eyes are bleeding with just one look at this. Microsoft can make something simple and brilliant as TPL, but on other side we have such overengineered behemots as WCF and EF.
- CmonDev 13y ago"...explain why one in a thousand makes you ill, or why the bottom of the glass seems to fall out sometimes..." Sounds more like current JavaScript and HTML/CSS. Unless you "drink" it using special kind of "glassware" like JQuery and BootStrap.
- ciderpunx 13y agoHex on the beach. Sorry.
- sdfjkl 13y agoLacks a non-alcoholic option, for programmers who need to do programming.
- windsurfer 13y agoAre you referencing: http://xkcd.com/323/ http://xkcd.com/323/ ?
- kvcrawford 13y agoThis is nonsense. I'll have a Jameson on the rocks, please.
- jredwards 13y agorocks optional
- mtts 13y agoJameson, aka the whisk(e)y for people who don't like whisk(e)y. It's smooth, soft and pleasant, nothing like the nasty, grating stuff they produce in Scotland. A favorite of mine, for sure.
- vadman 13y agoScotland has 100 distilleries in 5 major whiskey-producing regions with their own traditions. There is really no such thing as "scotch", they are all different, so this generalization is wrong.
- dylanrw 13y agoWhile not themed after languages and such, I keep a gist of my favorite cocktails I either want to try or the recipes me and my friends have come to enjoy: https://gist.github.com/dylan/6093669 https://gist.github.com/dylan/6093669 My engineering pals think me using a gist to store recipes is funny... :P
- deletes 13y agoSo according to logic, assembler is pure alcohol?
- aylons 13y agoC is pure vodka, hard, powerful and without any flavor. Assembly is pure ethanol. Still thinking how would VHDL be... thinking about raw sugar cane to make your own alcohol from there.
- rthomas6 13y agoI think VHDL would be like a chemistry lab. You could create ethanol pretty easily. You could also make a lot of other things.
- ArekDymalski 13y agoHmmm... so I the recipe for Befunge would be: 1. Pour a pint of beer 2. Pour a shot glass of vodka 3. Drop the glass into the beer 4. Drink quickly 5. Start flowing in all directions
- edsiper2 13y agoI am turning 33, give me a Memory Leak please! https://github.com/the-teacher/cocktails_for_programmers/blob/master/cocktails_for_programers.md#memory-leak https://github.com/the-teacher/cocktails_for_programmers/blo...
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoHmmm... First we had the 'how to shoot yourself in the foot in X language' jokes. Now we'll have jokes about what cocktails different programming languages would be. Not bad, I might compile them in a page some day.
- ibejoeb 13y agoGotta chime in here because I do this professionally. This is why people don't like cocktails. These are seriously terrible. I wouldn't serve any of these, ever. I don't want to be overly negative here, but no number of pull requests will fix this. Rather than try to salvage these, I will offer take out anyone who's interested and introduce you to a bunch of the top folks in the food and drink biz. There's really not a friendlier group of people, and learning about wine and spirits is a lot of fun.
- ddoolin 13y agoI disagree that "this" is why people don't like cocktails. That's a very broad statement, encompassing thousands of (existing) drinks that are great. I think it's more of a taste preference and has little to do with bad prior experiences. If said people are basing the totality of drinking cocktails based on their first go at it, there may be a bigger problem there.
- ibejoeb 13y agoOver here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374955) you say, "I never quite acquired a taste for more refined liquors." Why not? I'm afraid you haven't had anything good. There's no reason you shouldn't like "more refined" (good) products if you like the bad ones. Also, it's not just the quality of the product. For instance, Jaegermeister is a quality product, but the drink he makes with it is arbitrary. Would you like a tomato, peanut butter, and mustard sandwich? The offer stands. Take me up. I'll buy you a drink.
- jberryman 13y agoOpen-face peanut butter and tomato happens to be an excellent sand which, BTW :) requires a good tomato. Sprinkle with a tiny bit of garlic salt or chili powder.
- ddoolin 13y agoI have a very insensitive palette, which is probably to blame for apathy when it comes to variation. Most coffees, liquors, other drinks, tobacco products, and even foods taste almost exactly the same to me, despite consuming different brands/combinations/recipes of all of them for years, whereas my peers have developed discernible tastes when it comes to such things. Or it could be as you say and I've never really indulged in what could be considered truly superior products. Sometimes I'm not really sure. I will indeed. I'm curious if it's just me.
- mwsherman 13y agoC# would need to be citrus-y (C and sharp). It would go very quickly but might take a while to build.
- pittboy 13y agoAwesome idea. My friends at ActiveState had a release party and went to the bar to celebrate over drinks. One of the guys ordered a round of shots for the group "12 shots please, half Tequila and half Jager" The waitress took him literally and brought 12 shots, all with half Tequila and half Jager. The release included a GUI version of an existing command line tool because a certain customer wrote in saying "F&*k this DOS prompt BS, I want a GUI". We now call this awful shot "The DOS Prompt"
- arvinjoar 13y agoWhy not specify the amounts in centiliters? All the amounts end with 0 anyway.