If there was a drug that caused temporary deafness without any nasty side-effects I might consider it beneficial to my coding -- since most of the time I can't hear myself think with these paper-thin cube forests we have to work in these days.

Everything else is mood enhancement. As such, in my experience the most effective combination is sugar, caffeine, and curry. Nothing makes me so productive as being alert and content.

I have a firm rule to never touch the keyboard when drinking - it makes my mind slow & my fingers turn to ham, making typing alternately hillarious and utterly frustrating.

Also, you can't be 100% sure you're not outside of the dev sandbox when you're drunk so lager + root_access = downtime

Of course, blowing up my own machine in the middle of the night is just SOP ... we all have Frankenstein evenings in the lab during our lives... if you haven't - I highly reccomend doing so. Obsession builds character but then again also betrays an "addictive personality". Your milage may vary.



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In reply to Re: coding under the influence by gregor42
in thread coding under the influence by leocharre

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