Nothing "wrong" with it per se, I was known to enjoy large bottles of
rum during extended coding sessions. Now I can attest to the massive
fall-off in "epic skillz" associated with too much alcohol - my code
starts OK, gets better, then becomes an epic mess of typoes. I stopped
doing that a while back as I realized that it impaired my judgement
too much.
Computer crimes are far easier to commit when ones judgement is
sufficiently impaired - a lot of people I used to associate with took
some form of intoxicant and claimed it made them a "better hacker".
(cannabis often being one of the drugs of choice, some claim it
allowed them to "visualize" it all better...). I personally reckon
that the real reason for this is that it makes it easier to ignore the
fact you are doing something "wrong".
TL;DR, intoxicants + misguided computer hackers = bad.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Laurelai <laurelai@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:laurelai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 10/3/2011 4:56 AM, Darren Martyn wrote:
> True, I know some hackers who really apply the "Ballmers Peak"
> (http://xkcd.com/323/) principle... They simply need to dry up :)
>
Yeah i know quite a few of those myself.
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