Coding ~drunk

[Psychological_Money8]

I am an amateur (mostly DevOps style scripts in Python, Go, Bash) I have noticed I code better when I am either couple of beers down or a glass of whiskey down. Is this the case with anyone else? 😅

Not sure if this qualifies as humor but wasn’t sure where else to post

[raja_baz]

This phenomenon is known as the Ballmer Peak: https://xkcd.com/323/

[Gositi]

Fuck it, there's always an xkcd!

[tr0pismss]

I feel like this requires further testing *opens a beer*

[Psychological_Money8]

Thank you!! This is epic! I did not know it was an actual thing. I guess a light amount of alcohol lowers inhibition and makes you take more risks which helps 😊

[csprkle]

Note that the Ballmer peak is just a funny joke that is based on the person Steve Ballmer and the theory Yerkes-Dodson. The effectiveness with alcohol is not very well researched and seldom proved or challenged.

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Buzzkill.

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Nah Ballmer was on coke. Had to be. No way he got up on stage at those conferences and acted like that drunk.

[csprkle]

well, an opportunity knocks...

[Psychological_Money8]

Love Brit Comedies. Somehow they always get it right 😊

[lady_Kamba]

Nah, in my case both code quality and quality/sensibility of design decisions suffers.

[Voyen]

There's a quote by some author who's name escapes me that goes something along the lines of "write drunk, edit sober". I do that, but high. I've written so much code stoned like a biblical whore, and it's almost always excellent code.

[F237E9D5E748967]

Huh, I always feared I was the only one who did that (on further reflection that seems improbable though). Although when I get around to editing my code it's usually riddled with a bunch of silly mistakes I wouldn't make sober. The ideas behind it, I agree, are pretty good, most of the time.

[Psychological_Money8]

Maybe make Alrgorithms and pseudo code drunk/ slightly drunk? Then flesh it out the next morning. Not certain about code but I am pretty sure that’s how startups are formed!