middle334

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by middle334 9y ago
I just didn't want to derail things into another "AA is bad because it's religious" discussion. To paraphrase Heinlein: If solemnly rubbing blue mud in my belly button would have gotten me sober, I would have done that.
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by middle334 9y ago
Drank for the first 25 years of my career. High-functioning alcoholic, I guess. You've definitely heard of the products I have a bunch of code in, and the companies I worked for. I don't know how I managed getting blasted every ni
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by middle334 10y ago
There is a big difference between foreign workers who are great and add value, and foreign workers who are brought over, are subsequently exploited, and who are also used to depress the income of the local workforce. Seen it happen. Then th
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by middle334 10y ago
The Vive APIs are open. They're not connected to any Steam DRM (which I believe is optional -- and in any event, Valve doesn't nail developers down to exclusives; you're free to sell your games elsewhere, if you want). My g
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by middle334 11y ago
15+ years sober here, mostly through some recovery programs and a lot of AA. Neither the "disease" model (which has connotations of communicability) nor the AA "allergy" model (there's something wrong with my body)
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by middle334 12y ago
I did some LSD about 35 years ago. More than once. For a few days afterward it utterly knackered my ability to write good code, or do anything that required concentrated, logical thinking. Also, I felt like crap (think "bad mental hang
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by middle334 12y ago
15 years sober here. Before that I drank like crazy while shipping a bunch of software that you've definitely heard of. The only way this dumb monkey could quit was to quit altogether. Hey, if you can control your own drinking, that&#x
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by middle334 12y ago
15 years sober. So, I don't drink. Before that, hoo boy :-) I was at a bar last night with co-workers, and as long as I have a diet coke or something in my hand I'm okay. Weekly AA meetings keep me on the level, too. A old co-work
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by middle334 12y ago
I drank very heavily for ~ 20 years, a high functioning alcoholic and software engineer. Most of you have heard of stuff I've worked on. My other HN account has a pretty high karma, this one is a throwaway. I was maybe three months fro
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by middle334 13y ago
Throwaway account here. I was a "high functioning" alcoholic; 35 years in the software business, and I've worked for companies I know you've heard of, and you've almost certainly used my products. 15 years ago I was