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Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers?
jfruh writes "Among the winners of last night's election: marijuana users. Voters in both Washington and Colorado approved referenda that legalized marijuana for recreational use, though the drug remains illegal under federal law. There's been a long-standing debate among programmers as to whether recreational drugs, including pot and hallucinagens like LSD, can actually help programmers code. Don't forget, there was a substantial overlap between the wave of computer professionals who came of age in the '60s and that era's counterculture." (There's even a good book on that topic.)
I will program something while not being high and see if it makes a difference, later though. So far I am still collecting data points.
Is the pot free as in beer or free as in speech
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*the cat seems to be know something...*
"Dude, did you see where I put that lighter?"
*Must get test routines done for code review tomorrow....*
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"Dude, did you see where I put that lighter?"
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Voters in both Washington and Colorado approved referenda that legalized marijuana for recreational use
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If HL2:EP3 finally comes out, I guess we'll know what to thank.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
You forget how stunningly crap the spec and use cases you've been provided are?
I would expect code produced under the influence to have more bugs, less comments and generally be an unmaintainable mess.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion man.
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What about crack cocaine and Windows ME?
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When I was on the Windows 8 UI development team, we all were taking Meth and PCP daily. And look at the wonderful and innovative design we came up with!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
This is your code:
This is your code on drugs:
Any questions?
Majority of coding work should be preemptive coding for scalability.
PHB: Listen, Bill, I have a small programming task for you. We need an application that pops a dialog up, asks for a number, and appends that number, as plain text, to a file. Could you put this together before lunch?
Bill: Hey, boss, this is a major undertaking. Since we want to ensure scalability of this application I need to make it so it accepts a form definition language, parses it, executes scripts in another language, and then spits it into a variable, programmable set of databases which could be plain text files as you want, or ODBC connections, or The Cloud. Of course we want strong crypto on all that, and biometric authentication at every step. My team of ten will probably do it within a year or two.
PHB: Bill, are you high?
No Mountain Dew and you call yourself a programmer? :)
I doubt your story based on that!
Dude, decaf.