Also LSD for ideas.
Only if you don't mind that your ideas don't work in this reality.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 1:05
Stimulants works if you needs to write shit down and helps with tedious things you really don't want to do like reinventing the wheel. Psychedelics are nice when you're stuck on the conceptual level and you want to consider the many ways you can do things in and what would probably the most ad hoc efficient way, ABSTRACT BULLSHITE basically.
Other than that I've heard opiates are nice but those really aren't my thing. Alcohol is useless as my capabilities for logical thinking diminishes.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 2:08
Imagine programming on shrooms. I can barely dial a phone or type.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 3:26
nicotine
It will give you cancer and therefore you will be able to produce less code in your lifetime.
LSD for ideas
lol
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Anonymous2008-02-09 3:27
Programming is my drug. I have to get my fix. I feel bad if I don't program. I go out with friends and just think about getting home to some coding. I am addicted to programming. But, thinking of all the things I could be addicted to, being addicted to solving problems isn't so bad.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 3:44
/prog/ is my drug. I have to get my fix. I feel bad if I don't post. I go out with friends and just think about getting home to some trolling. I am addicted to /prog/. But, thinking of all the things I could be addicted to, being addicted to telling people to read SICP isn't so bad.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 3:59
I used to program only while under the influence of alcohol. Then I read SICP. Now I program only while under the influence of alcohol. Such is SATORI.
i used to code stoned. i'd have a stoned branch and go and off trying to implement something. i wouldnt comment anything because it all seemed so obvious at the time. then the next i had no idea what on earth i had been doing.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 4:57
>>7 Psychedelics are nice when you're stuck on the conceptual level and you want to consider the many ways you can do things in and what would probably the most ad hoc efficient way, ABSTRACT BULLSHITE basically.
You have probably not read SICP and definitely never taken drugs.
>>26
Well, I'm certain you're one of those homos who think LSD gives them great insights into the inner workings of the universe instead of just a little entertainment which you shouldn't take too seriously.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 10:57
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Anonymous2008-02-09 11:08
>>29
I saw two round things, expecting ASCII breasts I clicked (Post truncated.). Foiled again.
I coded stoned all of last semester. True about the comments part but if I could get atleast one working function in each time I got high and sat down to code, I was usually in good shape. I wrote a C-- compiler last semester this way.
Weed is like alcohol in that regard. Will only kill your performance.
If you're trying to be one of those kewl nerds from that random haxxor flick, ok. But don't expect more.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 17:54
I had a weird dream last night. Kyou from clannad was chasing after me and she was followed shortly by a large /progsnake army. She eventually caught up with me and proceeded to hurl SICP books at me.
I've decided to stop smoking weed before going to bed.
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Anonymous2008-02-09 21:46
I had a dream where Sussman and Abelson were having a shoot-out with cops. Then Abelson went into some building and screwed Julie Sussman. Then they had an epic shoot-out with each other.
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Anonymous2008-02-10 2:51
>>43
I had a strange dream the other day. I was riding the bus when all of a sudden this huge black snake head with retarded-looking eyes pops through the window and screams loudly "HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?" The bus had just stopped beside the library, and I ran inside as quickly as possible; the snake head was now chasing me around as I frantically searched for the legendary book among the shelves. I spotted the distinctive blue cover and ran toward it, the huge head inches from my ass. With great force I pulled the book from the shelf and instinctively directed it at the black head which by now was dripping with saliva at the mouth. It disappeared as it made contact with the book, disintegrating into a flurry of glowing parentheses.
I just sat there dazed for a few seconds, watching the feathery parehtneses slowly become smaller and fade away into nothingness. Slowly, I stood up, still clutching the purple book. I wondered about what I should do with it, then decided to put it back on the shelf. After doing so, I walked back out to the exit and boarded a bus, for where I did not know. The bus driver looked strangely familiar as I dropped the coins into the farebox;
"HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?" he suddenly yelled at me. Oh fuck, I thought to myself. Now I knew why he looked so familiar: He was The Sussman!
"Umm... no," I responded weakly. Suddenly his head looked a lot darker than it was a moment ago, and an evil grin appeared across his face. The bus's doors slammed shut and The Sussman's face turned an almost negroid black. His left hand shot at me and I could see that it was not a hand, but the head of a snake which protruded from its end. I turned around and ran towards the back of the articulated bus.
"Let me show you the power of Satori," The Sussman said in a deep hiss. His snakelike arm extended from his body towards me as I continued to run for what seemed like eternity towards the longbus's rear door.
"Longbus is loooooooooooooooooooooong", I thought to myself as I continued to run, the snake's head fast approaching. The bus seemed to go on forever. After a while, I passed the driver's seat. WTF, I thought. Ahead of me was The Sussman, standing in the aisle facing the same direction as me, with his left arm pointed forward.
I looked behind me, and saw the snake head was still approaching; I had managed to outrun it for a bit, and it was racing towards me. RECURSION! I jumped into the stepwell just as the head gained a sudden burst of speed, piercing through The Sussman and sending bright glowing parentheses everywhere. I watched first his body, then his hands disintegrate in the same manner that the head had earlier. The long black arm, floating in mid-air, slowly disappeared into a cloud of these glowing parentheses, and the snake's head, which I now noticed had come through the windscreen along with me, did the same after a few moments.
I stepped over to the driver's seat, looking for the door release switch. I found what appeared to be the switch and toggled it, but the doors did not open. Shortly after, a low hissing sound emanated from the bus itself, followed by the loud booming cry of "HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?", which felt as if it was coming from inside my head. Suddenly everything turned black.
I awoke to find myself still inside that mysterious bus, which was completely empty. The engine was still running, and it was still parked outside the library. "The library! Of course!" I thought to myself. As if my mind had been read, the front doors swung open and I ran from the bus toward the library, which also looked empty. I entered the building and frantically ran to where I had found the prized book earlier. The book was still there, and I grabbed it instinctively, then walked to the checkout. All but one counter was open, and there was a little Asian girl standing there; the place was deserted except for me and her. I put the book on the counter and she looked at it for a moment, then at me. "Have you read your SICP today?" she asked.
"You too?" I replied. "Have some tits and then GTFO and read your SICP!", she angrily shouted, then pulled up her shirt to show me her tits. She shoved the book into my hands and then disappeared spontaneously.
I left the library, and waited at the bus stop. The previous bus was no longer there. The girl I saw earlier walked up to me and looked at the Wizard Book I was holding, then glanced down at my crotch.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING STANDING THERE LIKE AN IDIOT? READ IT!" she suddenly shouted. Astounded, I quickly opened the book and started to read the first chapter. I was so intrigued by the book that I didn't notice she had begun to give me a blowjob. When I looked down, she took his mouth from my cock to angrily shout "GO BACK TO READING YOUR SICP" and so I did. I didn't even notice that I came until after she told me to stop reading. A short while later, the bus arrived.
On most browsers, you can bring up your browsing history by pressing Control-H. (No, this is not going to become a discussion of werecows.) On Firefox, this brings up a sidebar that shows up on the left side of the window. If you put your mouse over the edge of the sidebar, the cursor will turn into a different kind of arrow. By clicking and dragging it, you can move the edge of the sidebar back and forth. You are, to put it another way, manipulating the border between the normal window and the history window. By moving the mouse, you can increase the portion of the window devoted to either part. In a more extreme view of this situation, you're increasing or decreasing the amount of existence the sidebar has.
Now, let's apply this idea to something more abstract. Look out your window. If you don't live in a highly urbanized area, you should be able to see the horizon. Think of this as the border between the land and the sky. The land and sky are obviously distinguishable thanks to this boundary. Now, if you were to "drag" the sash between the sky and the land, or to manipulate the border between land and sky, you would end up causing the sky to become larger and the land to become smaller, or vice versa. An effect of this might be to cause something that was just on the ground to suddenly be hundreds of feet in the air. Truly a frightening situation to be in. So, look at it this way - manipulating the border between two physical things shifts whatever balance there is in the interaction between those things. Alternatively, by manipulating the border between two things, you can change the manner in which they exist.
Still, this isn't *that* abstract, since it's still dealing with real things in the real world. Many believe that in this world, there are those things that are true, and those that obviously aren't. This divides reality into two extremes: truth and falsehood. But, since we have two extremes, logically one can imagine a boundary between those two extremes - the border between truth and lies. If one were to manipulate this border, suddenly things that were pure fantasy (flying pigs, for the sake of argument) have become reality - or things from reality have ceased to exist. This is how Yukari is said to have invaded the moon - by manipulating the border between truth and lies, as applied to the reflection of the moon on a pond, she was able to make the reflection of the moon into a manifestation of the actual moon, and so send her youkai army onto it. This is what's truly amazing about Yukari's power - the ability to manipulate the border between completely abstract concepts allows her to fundamentally change reality as we know it (at least in terms of two abstract concepts).
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Anonymous2008-02-10 6:37
i've been smoking weed or some 8 years now and i'm a professional programmer
i've stopped taking thizz now but i had this chemical period where i was snorting and bombing meth and yola, while working as a programmer
for a year i was living in a real crappy apartment to, no internets, so i would stay all night at work, infront of my terminal, all alone in an empty office, writing code, on meth
i had no problem doing things i was interested in on meth, like i wouldn't be able to do my homework better just because i was on meth or yola for that matter, but the problem was that i discovered crazy pieces of code weeks later, code that i had completely forgotten, code that was written while on meth, code that sucked or simply didn't make sense
so yeah, you can /prog/ on d, but i wouldn't recommend it, i never code while on weed, i just chillax, i might code inbetween joints sometimes but not often
With great force I pulled the book from the shelf WITH GREAT FORCE
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Anonymous2008-02-10 10:30
Im a comp sci graduate now working an enterprise java development company (*groan*). I smoke a lot of weed, i.e. most days. I find that in the work environment the two dont mix nearly as well, cos of bullshit things, like workmates. In college when all coding was done solo I used to get bake and code practically every time an assignment was due.
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Anonymous2008-02-10 10:31
Im a comp sci graduate now working an enterprise java development company (*groan*). I smoke a lot of weed, i.e. most days. I find that in the work environment the two dont mix nearly as well, cos of bullshit things, like workmates. In college when all coding was done solo I used to get bake and code practically every time an assignment was due.
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Anonymous2008-02-10 13:37
the beta-endorphin RUSH from proqram completion is my drug
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Anonymous2008-02-10 13:49
>>49
DRAGONFORCE!! is the greatest force known to man.
>>60
You don't really know too much about psychedelics, do you?
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Anonymous2008-02-10 17:25
I often code when stoned (but then again, I often do a lot of things when stoned).
I find it doesn't hamper my coding as long as I'm not <i>too</i> stoned. I find weed helps me think, well.. maybe not <i>helps me think</i>, but rather helps me relax, which in turn helps me think. I've never had any problems with weed and productivity <i>except when smoking large quantities</i>. A joint every hour, or so, while coding though and I perform better.