Working on these at NeXT was an absolute pleasure. The key response allowed for longer sustained typing and fewer mistakes. I miss this keyboard as it sat at the right ergonomic angle.
Did you actually read the article? It says the performance of the 8-core AMD FX-8350 has similar performance as the 4-core Intel Core i5-3570K. In most of the tests, AMD actually performed worse.
So where's the disconnect? If words are too hard for you, just go look at the graphs.
Wake up. Two years ago Intel went on a media blitz dismissing parallelism and GPGPUs. Behind the scenes, they spending billions catching up in an attempt to cut AMD off at the knees because they know AMD has a huge lead with their new architecture. Software from all walks of life are moving to parallelism and OpenCL. OpenCL 1.2 latest updates in the API is a huge leap and AMD with Apple are leading the charge. Intel is busting itself and come next year Xeon Phi will be crammed down everyone's throat via marketing as the creators of HSA computing. They blew it. AMD is 24 months ahead in this technology and Intel knows it.
2013 is setting up nicely for AMD. It's a flat year for Intel.
2014 will be brutal for Intel as it's CPU design architecture runs out of abilities to squeeze every last cycle of performance for Single Precision Computation. AMD Vishera absolutely scales far ahead of anything Intel produces and any application that is designed to take advantage of it proves it out in real-world performance and their accompanying benchmarks.
I think he's saying that CPUs bought several years ago are good enough for most people and the need to upgrade hardware every few years is not as pressing as it once was. One way to force this is to bloat software like OS so that you needed new processors.
This leaves MS in a difficult place as most consumer tend to buy new machines to get new Windows versions instead of upgrading. There are rumors that MS is switching to a yearly release to entice consumers to upgrade. It is nearly the same model that Apple uses.
A key difference is that while Apple might make some profit on OS upgrades, they make a lot more on hardware. Thus MS is trying to get into the hardware business as well.
If only that were true. The merging CPU/GPGPU and then HSA approach to ubiquitous computing is going to need OS Level tools and frameworks to make that huge leap and make it uniformly on a platform so that Application layer development isn't spinning its wheels reinventing custom threading models and distributed design architectures because there doesn't exist a set of Core APIs to aide. Apple is way ahead in this regard. AMD is also way ahead in this regard. Ironic that both MSFT and Intel are behind when the present industry is still standardized primarily on them. Bring on the embedded picture and it becomes clear how come Intel is ignorning MSFT and working with Apple, the LLVM/Clang Community to get it's Xeon Phi Co-Processor crammed into the tree because they realize the cliff in CPU technology they are about to approach, whereas ARM and AMD with their new joint ventures has a brand new multi-solution rail system, highway, canal and air travel to get to where they are headed. AMD is getting a lot of negative press making its stock the steal of the decade while quietly revamping the entire corporation to go where the industry will be, not where it presently stands. They're taking a cue from Apple. The upcoming Mac Pros will look great with Tahiti GPGPUs purring right along.
I'm not a psychiatrist, but I know other people with similar eating disorders and he may well have Pica. Dismissing his ideas because of that is not unlike picking on the socially awkard kid who is also a genius.
If RMS were "normal" he wouldn't have had the insight and persistence that earned him universal recognition as the father of the Free software movement and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. If the price he pays for the genius is a little socially inappropriate behavior when he's stressed and it doesn't hurt anyone, then what's really the problem here? Sounds more like a convenient red herring than anything else.
Then Einstein must have been a moron or an idiot for not indulging in deplorable hygiene habits. After all, his genius certainly should have afforded him blowing himself in public with how abnormal his insights on Physics have been. Your argument portrays you as an enabler of his repulsive traits because you think the guy is brilliant and his social value far exceeds his personal social habits. Here is a clue: He's not. He's a guy with a Bachelor's degree in Physics. Helping to write a James Gosling free version of Emacs should never have won him such high praise. James Gosling for inventing Emacs, Java and much more should sit far higher on the shelves of genius in the world of modern Computer Science. Stallman is an activist who amazingly barks loudly about free source, but quietly recognizes without the tens and tens of billions of dollars, euros, etc., poured into Open Source projects the entire movement goes no where.
Linux is nothing without billions from IBM, Oracle and many others. Torvalds knows it. These corporations gladly throw the money into areas they know would cost far more to duplicate, in-house, and the areas of distinction are spent more on R&D and Patenting as any sensible person would do. There is a reason so many corporations are busting their hump with LLVM/Clang and the exponentially growing list of projects embracing it--Open Source can be Open and still Open in Licensing that doesn't bind everyone to the GPL. The GPL has many excellent qualities about it--sans Richard Stallman.d
The Billionaire Boy's club or Millionaire Boy's Club are two artificial carrots we Americans all think are attainable, when we stop using our intelligence and reasoning skills. Success is built on whether or not you truly enjoy the vocation(s) time affords you throughout your llife. If you want to paint so be it. If you want to write so be it. If you want to be the next Tesla so be it. When you're dead the Club isn't going with you. If you are secure in your choices for life that is the greatest success of all.
My former boss, twice over, Steven P. Jobs was too busy trying to applying where he saw the interaction of technology and society headed then where it has been. He immersed himself in it. It fulfilled him in all the areas in which he found interesting. He died without regret. His family is now in-charge with applying their dreams and hopefully dying without regret. The means upon which to do so and how grand varies, but regret cares not for wealth.
And more importantly have to go and compete against. When those 1960s NBA players met the ABA the NBA quickly discovered it was outclassed with this broader pool of talent. They merged the leagues for fear of becomeing obsolete. Zuckerberg's Facebook isn't that impressive. He just hasn't failed, yet. It will happen sooner rather than later. Portal Communities always do. Broader talent comes along in more critical areas incorporating features considered once impressive and now routine leaving Facebook a waste land.
No, scapegoat did not start with the Greeks. Scapegoat comes from the book of Leviticus where a goat was designated to be cast out into the desert as part of atonement for sins. The Greeks actually used a cripple, a beggar or a criminal for the practice you are thinking of, not a goat.
It goes back centuries before the Hebrew Myths and well during the days of Ancient Babylonia and Egyptian Dynasties.
If you cannot manage to off-load a large portion of your game programming to the GPGPU then you have a serious lack of technology talent to do so. You better catch up or your games will get smoked by the competition.
Lean towards the right fiscally? In short, you lean towards massive deficits, high defense spending and play ignorant to both when a Democrat is in office, right? The GOP is responsible for the lion's share of deficit and produced far fewer jobs in this nation's history. It's a vile, ignorant, POS party, full of self-entitled white trash who raped the nation of its wealth because ``leaning towards the right, fiscally'' folks continue voting in this slime.
Steve Wozniak is an ecclectic guy who couldn't successfully turn a lemonade stand into a successful business. Nice man, but his 15 minutes were decades ago.
There is a reason people laugh and mock people who call themselves Software Engineers outside of the IT World. They are fluff titles. Even at its best, Computers Engineering is just a subset of Electrical Engineering focused on the designs of hardware from the CPU/GPU/DSP, etc., and their interaction with Software.
Whether it is Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Biomechanical [Applied ME with Biology], Civil, Structural, Materials Science Engineering disciplines are grounded in mutable laws of engineering extended from the laws of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, through all applicable languages of Mathematics Disciplines.
Bill Joy has long wished for Software Engineering to become factual by taking cues from Mechanical Engineering [though since he never has been a Mechanical Engineer I doubt he realizes how impractical that wish will ever be], due to the innate Art behind Computer Programming, Computer Architecture, Computer Software Design, etc.
In order for Software Engineering to be a recognized Engineering Discipline via ABET one would expect them to take Thermodynamics/Thermodynamic Systems, Dynamic Systems, Materials Science Engineering, Finite Element Analysis and more where one applies the various electives to writing Software applications to apply said disciplines--the exact reality all Engineering disciplines due for zero credit or recognition.
You want an Engineering Degree, then get one. You want a Computer Science degree and it's several specialties than get one. Stop pretending they are equivalent. None of my former CS majors ever compared our CS degree curriculum to my Mechanical Engineering curriculum. Mechanical Engineering is a very broad and deep curriculum now with several areas including Tribology, MEMS, Robotics [Applied Kinematics with EE/ME control systems], along with their many other tracks in Machine Design, Fracture Mechanics, Dynamic Systems, Heat Transfer Disciplines, etc].
Stop calling yourselves Software Engineers. You aren't designing solutions that adhere to Computer Science Laws. You are designing to Best Practices, Design Patterns, all centered around Semantics/Linguistics/Discrete mathematics, applied logic and other Art disciplines. Embrace the Art. Stop pawning yourselves off as Engineers.
The Engineer in Training Exam provided by every state in the United States is a comprehensive exam [8 hours] over your past 5 years that allows one to reduce the time it takes [under a Principle Engineer (Often mistaken as Professional Engineer)] to then qualify and apply to become a P.E., from 12 years under a P.E., licensed and bonded down to 4 years.
The lack of understanding the IT World has for the parent worlds of Engineering is staggering.
LSD with THC indeed induces great moments of creative linking on the subjects you discuss, but also allows one to spend hours spacing out on a flower one is inexperienced on how to use them in conjunction. The high lasts about 8 hours with much higher amplitudes on the ride, as opposed to a typical period of 20 hours with much subtler highs. College is a great experience to experience. Nothing comes close to this type of experience, and one can screw for hours, though I found it annoying after a few hours. It's an `experience' and one you chalk up for your bucket list. Your brain 5th circuit as Leary liked to describe is expanded as in you think more outside the box, but you're not growing a third eye. That's for years of continuous meditation. Then again I better hope they don't ban that as well. For sure, sitting down and writing, reading, or anything after about 4 hours other than sex and watching TV is like lifting a thousand pounds on the motivational sectors of the brain--a complete waste of time. Even then movie marathons are even more interesting than sex. Anyone who says they're high continously on LSD have never had it. They're amphetamine junkies and people you don't want to associate in your personal life, ever.
Caffeine in teas, organic coffee and light amounts of alcohol are just a few vices we all should protect others from determining what is or is not best for us. Depending on your peer group you have incredibly stimulating conversations on LSD or you watch Looney Tunes for hours with buddies who aren't ever going to be stimulating on drugs. If you get the former, record the session and later on determine what is or is not intriguing for future research. If it is the latter, hold those recordings to show in reunions with them to put smiles on their faces.
I don't think the idea is you code while high. I think the idea is that getting high last night affects the way your brain works today. Either because of simple stress relief or something more complicated. LSD in particular is known to have serious and long lasting effects on brain function, and not all of them negative. For example, a single dose of LSD can increase the chances of an alcoholic staying sober by a significant margin, significant enough that if it weren't for the stigma associated with it it would probably be part of standard rehab.
LSD has zero negative effects on brain chemistry. Your claim to have serious and long lasting effects on brain chemistry is propaganda. Then again LSD is non-addictive and the internal systems process it out after first ingestion thus making it exceedingly difficult to experience synaptic blocking equivalent to the prior night's consumption. Most research today stems around Epilepsy. Prescription pharmaceuticals are the real killers and permanent brain chemistry threats to consistent long-term brain function.
The down side is the majority of the hippies that did a lot of drugs died young. From my own experience, its a bad idea to try to accomplish anything high. Coming from a guy who has done drugs, you'd be much better suited for your position sober. I would not employ you if I knew you were on drugs either. Get your lives together.
The majority of them? What an ignorant statement. Yes! The majority of Hippies were the washouts from overdoses of Barbituates. Oh wait! Those were musicians who compromise not even a fart in the world for the total masses who experienced the 60s while partaking in recreational drugs.
You're completely wrong with LLVM domination provides a gateway for Vendors to break stuff. The very manifesto of LLVM/Clang is being tested right now with Intel wanting to dump their Cilk Plus Extension into the source and getting major backlash from the core developers who refuse to put it in as it breaks with the intended foundations of LLVM/Clang. These are just a couple of the more kind remarks from Google and Apple where others are more sardonic regards to maintenance and impacting on the modularity and extendability of code maintenance this would impose and like with OpenCL Intel is discovering it has to play according to the rules everyone else in the Open Source Community play in LLVM/Clang or go home:
Chandler Caruth writes: ``
Before we go too far, and certainly before we dive in with patches,
there is an important discussion which needs to take place: should
Clang grow support for Cilk Plus.
Clang has strongly resisted the urge to grow support for arbitrary
vendor extensions to the C/C++ programming languages for several
reasons:
- It aims to be a strictly standards enforcing compiler, something
complicated by extensions
- To minimize maintenance burden, and ensure rapid development of Clang itself
- To avoid fragmentation, or supporting competing but different (or even opposed) extensions
The current guidelines are that it is healthy for Clang to support an
extension when there is a paper in front of the C++ committee which
proposes making that extension part of standard C++, there is an
active committee member backing that proposed extension, and there are
indications of consensus on the direction if not the particulars of
the extension as it will be standardized. Furthermore, if the
extension is still undergoing significant discussion or is not yet
reasonably clear that it will be a part of the upcoming standard, we
really want an active, trusted member of the Clang community to be
backing the implementation so that we have confidence in it getting
updated to match the progress of the proposal to the committee.
The goal here is to balance the desire to foster implementation
experience with extensions to the language prior to standardization
while minimizing the cost on the project and community and maximizing
the quality bar of the primary Clang code base and released
binaries[1][2].''
Douglas Gregor extended the comments: ``
This last comment is a stretch to the point of being ridiculous. GNU "extensions" tend to be smallish features that one would encounter when compiling code written with GCC in mind, or with GCC as the primary compiler. Cilk Plus has also been proposed for GCC, but it has not been released as part of GCC, and it's not clear that it will be released as part of GCC. It feels a bit like an arms dealer playing both sides of a conflict ''
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Working on these at NeXT was an absolute pleasure. The key response allowed for longer sustained typing and fewer mistakes. I miss this keyboard as it sat at the right ergonomic angle.
Radium (88 Ra) is a solid and shouldn't be affected by ventilation. Do you mean Radon (86 Rn)?
I suggest you learn more about Chemistry and how solids with large radioactive materials still decay.
Did you actually read the article? It says the performance of the 8-core AMD FX-8350 has similar performance as the 4-core Intel Core i5-3570K. In most of the tests, AMD actually performed worse.
So where's the disconnect? If words are too hard for you, just go look at the graphs.
Wake up. Two years ago Intel went on a media blitz dismissing parallelism and GPGPUs. Behind the scenes, they spending billions catching up in an attempt to cut AMD off at the knees because they know AMD has a huge lead with their new architecture. Software from all walks of life are moving to parallelism and OpenCL. OpenCL 1.2 latest updates in the API is a huge leap and AMD with Apple are leading the charge. Intel is busting itself and come next year Xeon Phi will be crammed down everyone's throat via marketing as the creators of HSA computing. They blew it. AMD is 24 months ahead in this technology and Intel knows it.
2013 is setting up nicely for AMD. It's a flat year for Intel.
2014 will be brutal for Intel as it's CPU design architecture runs out of abilities to squeeze every last cycle of performance for Single Precision Computation. AMD Vishera absolutely scales far ahead of anything Intel produces and any application that is designed to take advantage of it proves it out in real-world performance and their accompanying benchmarks.
I think he's saying that CPUs bought several years ago are good enough for most people and the need to upgrade hardware every few years is not as pressing as it once was. One way to force this is to bloat software like OS so that you needed new processors.
This leaves MS in a difficult place as most consumer tend to buy new machines to get new Windows versions instead of upgrading. There are rumors that MS is switching to a yearly release to entice consumers to upgrade. It is nearly the same model that Apple uses.
A key difference is that while Apple might make some profit on OS upgrades, they make a lot more on hardware. Thus MS is trying to get into the hardware business as well.
If only that were true. The merging CPU/GPGPU and then HSA approach to ubiquitous computing is going to need OS Level tools and frameworks to make that huge leap and make it uniformly on a platform so that Application layer development isn't spinning its wheels reinventing custom threading models and distributed design architectures because there doesn't exist a set of Core APIs to aide. Apple is way ahead in this regard. AMD is also way ahead in this regard. Ironic that both MSFT and Intel are behind when the present industry is still standardized primarily on them. Bring on the embedded picture and it becomes clear how come Intel is ignorning MSFT and working with Apple, the LLVM/Clang Community to get it's Xeon Phi Co-Processor crammed into the tree because they realize the cliff in CPU technology they are about to approach, whereas ARM and AMD with their new joint ventures has a brand new multi-solution rail system, highway, canal and air travel to get to where they are headed. AMD is getting a lot of negative press making its stock the steal of the decade while quietly revamping the entire corporation to go where the industry will be, not where it presently stands. They're taking a cue from Apple. The upcoming Mac Pros will look great with Tahiti GPGPUs purring right along.
I'm not a psychiatrist, but I know other people with similar eating disorders and he may well have Pica. Dismissing his ideas because of that is not unlike picking on the socially awkard kid who is also a genius.
If RMS were "normal" he wouldn't have had the insight and persistence that earned him universal recognition as the father of the Free software movement and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. If the price he pays for the genius is a little socially inappropriate behavior when he's stressed and it doesn't hurt anyone, then what's really the problem here? Sounds more like a convenient red herring than anything else.
Then Einstein must have been a moron or an idiot for not indulging in deplorable hygiene habits. After all, his genius certainly should have afforded him blowing himself in public with how abnormal his insights on Physics have been. Your argument portrays you as an enabler of his repulsive traits because you think the guy is brilliant and his social value far exceeds his personal social habits. Here is a clue: He's not. He's a guy with a Bachelor's degree in Physics. Helping to write a James Gosling free version of Emacs should never have won him such high praise. James Gosling for inventing Emacs, Java and much more should sit far higher on the shelves of genius in the world of modern Computer Science. Stallman is an activist who amazingly barks loudly about free source, but quietly recognizes without the tens and tens of billions of dollars, euros, etc., poured into Open Source projects the entire movement goes no where.
Linux is nothing without billions from IBM, Oracle and many others. Torvalds knows it. These corporations gladly throw the money into areas they know would cost far more to duplicate, in-house, and the areas of distinction are spent more on R&D and Patenting as any sensible person would do. There is a reason so many corporations are busting their hump with LLVM/Clang and the exponentially growing list of projects embracing it--Open Source can be Open and still Open in Licensing that doesn't bind everyone to the GPL. The GPL has many excellent qualities about it--sans Richard Stallman.d
that way I have no regrets with littering the globe with them. We don't need more petroleum based polymers polluting the globe.
The Billionaire Boy's club or Millionaire Boy's Club are two artificial carrots we Americans all think are attainable, when we stop using our intelligence and reasoning skills. Success is built on whether or not you truly enjoy the vocation(s) time affords you throughout your llife. If you want to paint so be it. If you want to write so be it. If you want to be the next Tesla so be it. When you're dead the Club isn't going with you. If you are secure in your choices for life that is the greatest success of all.
My former boss, twice over, Steven P. Jobs was too busy trying to applying where he saw the interaction of technology and society headed then where it has been. He immersed himself in it. It fulfilled him in all the areas in which he found interesting. He died without regret. His family is now in-charge with applying their dreams and hopefully dying without regret. The means upon which to do so and how grand varies, but regret cares not for wealth.
Designing a new hybrid engine is interesting work. Without the degree in Mechanical Engineering it's pencil sketches on paper.
And more importantly have to go and compete against. When those 1960s NBA players met the ABA the NBA quickly discovered it was outclassed with this broader pool of talent. They merged the leagues for fear of becomeing obsolete. Zuckerberg's Facebook isn't that impressive. He just hasn't failed, yet. It will happen sooner rather than later. Portal Communities always do. Broader talent comes along in more critical areas incorporating features considered once impressive and now routine leaving Facebook a waste land.
No, scapegoat did not start with the Greeks. Scapegoat comes from the book of Leviticus where a goat was designated to be cast out into the desert as part of atonement for sins. The Greeks actually used a cripple, a beggar or a criminal for the practice you are thinking of, not a goat.
It goes back centuries before the Hebrew Myths and well during the days of Ancient Babylonia and Egyptian Dynasties.
WTF does sockets have to do with PC enthusiasm?
When was the last time you upgraded a CPU and didn't get a new motherboard? Never?
If a soldered on chip allows the bus to run faster, I for one am enthusiastic.
The last time I bought AMD. Keep sucking down that new Intel kool-aid each release of a new chip requiring a new motherboard.
If you cannot manage to off-load a large portion of your game programming to the GPGPU then you have a serious lack of technology talent to do so. You better catch up or your games will get smoked by the competition.
They fall on the short-bus side of life.
which direction is it pointing?
Slightly to the left, until I see the doctor again.
Oh, great. Now time has a liberal bias too.
From the Doctor's perspective it points to the right.
This guy will go down as a footnote. Andy Grove is the guy who made Intel a giant. And I'm rooting for AMD.
Lean towards the right fiscally? In short, you lean towards massive deficits, high defense spending and play ignorant to both when a Democrat is in office, right? The GOP is responsible for the lion's share of deficit and produced far fewer jobs in this nation's history. It's a vile, ignorant, POS party, full of self-entitled white trash who raped the nation of its wealth because ``leaning towards the right, fiscally'' folks continue voting in this slime.
Steve Wozniak is an ecclectic guy who couldn't successfully turn a lemonade stand into a successful business. Nice man, but his 15 minutes were decades ago.
You don't need a degree to be a Railroad engineer
But you need to pass a test / get certified and re-certified every 2–3 years
and the career progression is one that starts as an assistant (brakeman), conductor and finally, engineer.
Railroad Engineer is a Conductor, not an Engineer.
edit: Computers Engineering -> Computer Engineering. mutable laws -> immutable laws.
There is a reason people laugh and mock people who call themselves Software Engineers outside of the IT World. They are fluff titles. Even at its best, Computers Engineering is just a subset of Electrical Engineering focused on the designs of hardware from the CPU/GPU/DSP, etc., and their interaction with Software.
Whether it is Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Biomechanical [Applied ME with Biology], Civil, Structural, Materials Science Engineering disciplines are grounded in mutable laws of engineering extended from the laws of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, through all applicable languages of Mathematics Disciplines.
Bill Joy has long wished for Software Engineering to become factual by taking cues from Mechanical Engineering [though since he never has been a Mechanical Engineer I doubt he realizes how impractical that wish will ever be], due to the innate Art behind Computer Programming, Computer Architecture, Computer Software Design, etc.
In order for Software Engineering to be a recognized Engineering Discipline via ABET one would expect them to take Thermodynamics/Thermodynamic Systems, Dynamic Systems, Materials Science Engineering, Finite Element Analysis and more where one applies the various electives to writing Software applications to apply said disciplines--the exact reality all Engineering disciplines due for zero credit or recognition.
You want an Engineering Degree, then get one. You want a Computer Science degree and it's several specialties than get one. Stop pretending they are equivalent. None of my former CS majors ever compared our CS degree curriculum to my Mechanical Engineering curriculum. Mechanical Engineering is a very broad and deep curriculum now with several areas including Tribology, MEMS, Robotics [Applied Kinematics with EE/ME control systems], along with their many other tracks in Machine Design, Fracture Mechanics, Dynamic Systems, Heat Transfer Disciplines, etc].
Stop calling yourselves Software Engineers. You aren't designing solutions that adhere to Computer Science Laws. You are designing to Best Practices, Design Patterns, all centered around Semantics/Linguistics/Discrete mathematics, applied logic and other Art disciplines. Embrace the Art. Stop pawning yourselves off as Engineers.
The Engineer in Training Exam provided by every state in the United States is a comprehensive exam [8 hours] over your past 5 years that allows one to reduce the time it takes [under a Principle Engineer (Often mistaken as Professional Engineer)] to then qualify and apply to become a P.E., from 12 years under a P.E., licensed and bonded down to 4 years.
The lack of understanding the IT World has for the parent worlds of Engineering is staggering.
LSD with THC indeed induces great moments of creative linking on the subjects you discuss, but also allows one to spend hours spacing out on a flower one is inexperienced on how to use them in conjunction. The high lasts about 8 hours with much higher amplitudes on the ride, as opposed to a typical period of 20 hours with much subtler highs. College is a great experience to experience. Nothing comes close to this type of experience, and one can screw for hours, though I found it annoying after a few hours. It's an `experience' and one you chalk up for your bucket list. Your brain 5th circuit as Leary liked to describe is expanded as in you think more outside the box, but you're not growing a third eye. That's for years of continuous meditation. Then again I better hope they don't ban that as well. For sure, sitting down and writing, reading, or anything after about 4 hours other than sex and watching TV is like lifting a thousand pounds on the motivational sectors of the brain--a complete waste of time. Even then movie marathons are even more interesting than sex. Anyone who says they're high continously on LSD have never had it. They're amphetamine junkies and people you don't want to associate in your personal life, ever.
Caffeine in teas, organic coffee and light amounts of alcohol are just a few vices we all should protect others from determining what is or is not best for us. Depending on your peer group you have incredibly stimulating conversations on LSD or you watch Looney Tunes for hours with buddies who aren't ever going to be stimulating on drugs. If you get the former, record the session and later on determine what is or is not intriguing for future research. If it is the latter, hold those recordings to show in reunions with them to put smiles on their faces.
I don't think the idea is you code while high. I think the idea is that getting high last night affects the way your brain works today. Either because of simple stress relief or something more complicated. LSD in particular is known to have serious and long lasting effects on brain function, and not all of them negative. For example, a single dose of LSD can increase the chances of an alcoholic staying sober by a significant margin, significant enough that if it weren't for the stigma associated with it it would probably be part of standard rehab.
LSD has zero negative effects on brain chemistry. Your claim to have serious and long lasting effects on brain chemistry is propaganda. Then again LSD is non-addictive and the internal systems process it out after first ingestion thus making it exceedingly difficult to experience synaptic blocking equivalent to the prior night's consumption. Most research today stems around Epilepsy. Prescription pharmaceuticals are the real killers and permanent brain chemistry threats to consistent long-term brain function.
The down side is the majority of the hippies that did a lot of drugs died young. From my own experience, its a bad idea to try to accomplish anything high. Coming from a guy who has done drugs, you'd be much better suited for your position sober. I would not employ you if I knew you were on drugs either. Get your lives together.
The majority of them? What an ignorant statement. Yes! The majority of Hippies were the washouts from overdoses of Barbituates. Oh wait! Those were musicians who compromise not even a fart in the world for the total masses who experienced the 60s while partaking in recreational drugs.
Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Cray and more are all moving to LLVM/Clang by default.