I've tried programming whilst high, but I find myself unable to do anything complicated, like design algorithms. So it's not very helpful. Anyone else had different experiences?
Yeah, I've tried it too. Just made me sluggish, made my mind wander a lot looking at a problem from different angles, but I wasn't able to grasp or focus on anything for very long before moving on to the next idea.
I work best with a freshly brewed pot of coffee nearby, a cool draft (I can't work in the summer heat--need that A/C), zero outside disruptions, and music playing from a high-quality Internet radio stream, which must either be industrial, classical, or weeaboo shit. I can't code to anything else.
OK, I know you faggots are going to laugh at this, but I listen to Autechre, specifically this album: http://bit.ly/bo1KWT. It's great programming music.
Really depends on how high you are. Obviously, when you're tripping balls coding is going to be difficult. However I find it much easier to wrap my head around problems after smoking just a hit or two. Also makes me code for longer periods of time.
I tried everything but in the end I'm the most productive in pure silence.
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Anonymous2010-08-03 19:12
>>16
I'm afraid not, no. If it means anything, I also regularly develop on Linux and OS X and I am an avid Emacs user. I just happen to be on my windows machine at the moment to fix a few broken test cases on this platform for one of my frameworks.
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Anonymous2010-08-03 19:24
I talk to myself, all the goddamn time. That makes me productive, and it is also why I work at home.
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Anonymous2010-08-03 19:37
>>20
I don't talk to myself so much as swear out loud to myself. I'm surprised I haven't yet been reported to the drone army ``HR'' for this.
>>17
One can tell that the R6RS code is actually an example from the R5RS specification. It's a bit of a shame it's not his own code. Most of us boast enough code of our own that we're proud of in our "toy" languages.
>>23
Actually it's my own C++ code. Boost doesn't have a radix_sort, and it's not in the hrc namespace. Boost's threading library doesn't have nearly half of those header files either.
I can't concentrate on coding without being moderately high. Being seriously stoned doesn't work that well since then I can't remember what I was trying to do in the first place.
Sussmanites, I have decided to take >>68's advice. I will be rolling with chronic, tobacco, cardboard roach (I hear Americans call it a mouthpiece) and grape flavoured Rips rolling papers.