Join the discussion
Write your take first — we'll ask for email only when you're ready to publish.
- Hacker News
- See also the Mitchell and Webb ‘inebriati’ sketch - https://youtu.be/-Zj50DmBFp0by Angostura
- In popular media: https://youtube.com/watch?v=45sJJpS1OEM&t=3m28sby solarkraft
- Before the advent of the brogrammer, I had a British manager/lead programmer at (big name GPS supplier) who kept a 6-pack of beer in his desk for sipping alone after everyone else went home. I don't know if it was either sad the drinking alone part or concerning that the code would drive one to drinking. Maybe there's something to a beer enabling flow state.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmer_jump I learned just a few days ago of what probably originated the joke.by nraynaud
- Back in the '90s I worked for a small consulting company that was conveniently next to a bar that we often went to after work on Friday. One of the other software engineers, who was an exceptionally gifted programmer, would walk back to the office to write some more code. He said he was his most profific/creative after a couple of beers.by TomMasz
- I have reference this more times than I'm willing to admit. Usually together with that old rumor; that back in the days, if you went to a computer show, it was pretty obvious that the Apple guys were smoking and the Microsoft guys were drinking :)by bronlund
- There is a danish movie related to maintaining the optimal drunkedness.by fifilura