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The purpose of a coffee date is to weed out people who don't drink coffee. You wouldn't want to work with such a freak of nature!

Raphmedia 12y ago
You can learn a lot about someone's coffee habits. How much sugar, how much milk. How much... whiskey.
- JoeAltmaier 12y ago
  Who drinks plain coffee? Latte, espresso, chai - single or double shot - soy or low-fat, the list goes on and on!
  - morcheeba 12y ago
    Our whole team interviewed a guy at a local restaurant over lunch. Normally the interviewee would order something simple because we'd be grilling them pretty hard... but this guy ordered the yak. What did it mean?!!?
  - davedx 12y ago
    I'd say about half the people in the Netherlands drink their coffee "gewoon" ("just")! Add too much milk and it's officially "verkeerd" (wrong). As in, coffee machines in petrol stations have a "koffie verkeerd" button, presumably for foreign truckers from far off lands where they spoil their delicious hot beverage with... (blegh) milk.
    - mcv 12y ago
      Speaking of spoiling delicious beverages with milk, have you heard what the English do to their tea?
      - J_Darnley 12y ago
        If you have tea that strong you are going to want to temper it with some milk.
  - dylanrw 12y ago
    If you drink good coffee it's amazing all by itself.
- pit 12y ago
  - Shall I put rum in the coffee? - Sure.
  - MrDosu 12y ago
    > - Shall I put coffee in the rum? FTFY
- noobermin 12y ago
  So it turns out I love espresso, but I don't drink alcohol. Does that put me in the "freak of nature" category?
  - JohnBooty 12y ago
    No. You're wonderful. But... don't tell anybody we said that.
ticviking 12y ago
Or a mormon?
- JohnBooty 12y ago
  I'd consider that a valid excuse. Barely.
  - ticviking 12y ago
    Living in the Morridor, very barely, willingness to adapt their faiths dietary rules to other traditions to is very strongly correlated with willing to work on a diverse team without preaching. Willingness to "Do coffee", even if they order a soda or hot cocoa, is a great test of this. Similarly how adverse are they to a meetup at a brewpub or somewhere similar.
michaelmior 12y ago
Darn. Never touched coffee myself. People always seem surprised especially when they discover I'm a developer.
- MrDosu 12y ago
  - He said with a wide eyed stare, his nose bleeding accompanied by the unrelenting taps of his foot.
- JohnBooty 12y ago
  We'll just go ahead and assume you don't drink coffee because you're too busy munching on mouthfuls of Adderall tablets like they were Tic-Tacs.
  - Ayaz 12y ago
    Oh. I think I have a sensitivity to caffeine, because drinking coffee causes an onset of a migraine that I don't like when I'm writing code or managing systems.
    - JoeAltmaier 12y ago
      Typically caffeine headaches occur when you stop drinking it.
      - Ayaz 12y ago
        Yes. Only, I have never been a habitual drinker of coffee. When I started drinking regularly for a short period, I stopped once I noticed the pattern. For me, cheese and chocolate, as well, triggers a migraine.
        JoeAltmaier 12y ago
        Chocolate of course has theobromine, similar to caffeine with similar effects. Cheese? Any idea why that might be similar?
fibbery 12y ago
OP is in Sweden. "To have a coffee" is so common that it's a 4 letter verb (att fika) and they are among the top nations for coffee consumption. So while your point still stands, the number of people you exclude from this request is pretty small...

Raphmedia 12y ago

You can learn a lot about someone's coffee habits. How much sugar, how much milk. How much... whiskey.

JoeAltmaier 12y ago
Who drinks plain coffee? Latte, espresso, chai - single or double shot - soy or low-fat, the list goes on and on!
- morcheeba 12y ago
  Our whole team interviewed a guy at a local restaurant over lunch. Normally the interviewee would order something simple because we'd be grilling them pretty hard... but this guy ordered the yak. What did it mean?!!?
- davedx 12y ago
  I'd say about half the people in the Netherlands drink their coffee "gewoon" ("just")! Add too much milk and it's officially "verkeerd" (wrong). As in, coffee machines in petrol stations have a "koffie verkeerd" button, presumably for foreign truckers from far off lands where they spoil their delicious hot beverage with... (blegh) milk.
  - mcv 12y ago
    Speaking of spoiling delicious beverages with milk, have you heard what the English do to their tea?
    - J_Darnley 12y ago
      If you have tea that strong you are going to want to temper it with some milk.
- dylanrw 12y ago
  If you drink good coffee it's amazing all by itself.
pit 12y ago
- Shall I put rum in the coffee? - Sure.
- MrDosu 12y ago
  > - Shall I put coffee in the rum? FTFY
noobermin 12y ago
So it turns out I love espresso, but I don't drink alcohol. Does that put me in the "freak of nature" category?
- JohnBooty 12y ago
  No. You're wonderful. But... don't tell anybody we said that.

ticviking 12y ago

Or a mormon?

JohnBooty 12y ago
I'd consider that a valid excuse. Barely.
- ticviking 12y ago
  Living in the Morridor, very barely, willingness to adapt their faiths dietary rules to other traditions to is very strongly correlated with willing to work on a diverse team without preaching. Willingness to "Do coffee", even if they order a soda or hot cocoa, is a great test of this. Similarly how adverse are they to a meetup at a brewpub or somewhere similar.

michaelmior 12y ago

Darn. Never touched coffee myself. People always seem surprised especially when they discover I'm a developer.

MrDosu 12y ago
- He said with a wide eyed stare, his nose bleeding accompanied by the unrelenting taps of his foot.
JohnBooty 12y ago
We'll just go ahead and assume you don't drink coffee because you're too busy munching on mouthfuls of Adderall tablets like they were Tic-Tacs.
- Ayaz 12y ago
  Oh. I think I have a sensitivity to caffeine, because drinking coffee causes an onset of a migraine that I don't like when I'm writing code or managing systems.
  - JoeAltmaier 12y ago
    Typically caffeine headaches occur when you stop drinking it.
    - Ayaz 12y ago
      Yes. Only, I have never been a habitual drinker of coffee. When I started drinking regularly for a short period, I stopped once I noticed the pattern. For me, cheese and chocolate, as well, triggers a migraine.
      - JoeAltmaier 12y ago
        Chocolate of course has theobromine, similar to caffeine with similar effects. Cheese? Any idea why that might be similar?

fibbery 12y ago

OP is in Sweden. "To have a coffee" is so common that it's a 4 letter verb (att fika) and they are among the top nations for coffee consumption. So while your point still stands, the number of people you exclude from this request is pretty small...