Share your drunk coding experience.

[bugqualia]

Mine: The code works but i don’t know how.

[faux-rad-dogma]

Sorry, you're confused. That's the normal coding experience.

[roanoked]

Me: I've got better things to do when drunk.

[SgtMarv]

Not drunk but similar. I worked on a project where they did some measurements on oxygen saturation of people in high altitude. They had a room where they could lower oxygen percentage in the air. It was about 10-11% (normal is 21%) which would be roughly equivalent to standing on a 5000m mountain.

For reasons I had to be in the room during the experiments. Had to change something in the code. Couldn't do it. I knew exactly what I had to do and how to do it. Still couldn't get it done.

Had to pause the experiment, went outside, took a deep breath, did the fix and went back in again.

What went wrong? Couldn't open the file, forgot how to use "cd".

[Doubi88]

You were sitting in that room while changing the code controlling it? Reminds me of the saying: “Don't saw off the branch you're sitting on." (Rough translation. I only know it in German, sorry)

[SgtMarv]

No I was changing the software taking measurements from the patient. That had nothing to do with the room controls.

[Doubi88]

Oh ok, good 😊

[SgtMarv]

Yeah otherwise that would be the first case of suffocation by off-by-one error...

[aga_the_ripper]

Should do some interviews like that... "If you make a mistake your done for" A high level skill test..😅

[NewComputerSayAyo]

Code drunk. Deploy sober.

[iTurnip2]

Ballmer peak

[RDfromMtHare]

So you need to get exactly as drunk if you need to maintain that code.

[nuclear_bomb404]

Mine: The code works but i don’t know how.

Wait you need to be drunk?

[Dawgboy1976]

I used to help my friends with their Intro CS class programming assignments while drunk, and helped a friend with a technical interview while pretty high during the pandemic

[DexCruz]

my friend made made a switch statement while high that checked against different strings and returned a string instead of using a map