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Timeline for Harmful temptations in programming

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Feb 25, 2011 at 22:39 comment added Mason Wheeler @Kitsched: Yep! Especially if you have someone else's pre-existing design to rip off.
Feb 25, 2011 at 17:05 comment added user1249 Also the "better and longer" does not tell that it is the one after the other :-o
Feb 25, 2011 at 16:58 comment added user1249 @adam, I am glad to know that there are people on stackexchange who are willing to make large, personal sacrifices to become the very best :)
Feb 25, 2011 at 15:07 comment added Adam Crossland @Thorbjorn: I was deeply committed to becoming the best engineer that I possibly could, so I took the step of setting aside a whole year of my life for drinking to prepare myself. It also happened to be a convenient way to ride out a pretty bad job market.
Feb 25, 2011 at 9:36 comment added janosrusiczki Coding while drinking beer helps you create wildly popular social networks that'll worth billions in a couple of years. It's true, I saw this in a movie.
Feb 25, 2011 at 8:43 comment added user1249 @adam, it took you a year of drinking to become an engineer?
Feb 25, 2011 at 1:38 comment added zzzzBov @Adam Crossland, the problem is that you wrote couple. A beer can help you work better and longer, but it's a steep curve on the law of diminishing returns.
Feb 24, 2011 at 18:44 comment added gingerbreadboy @Adam > xkcd.com/323
Feb 24, 2011 at 16:28 history made wiki Post Made Community Wiki
Feb 24, 2011 at 16:17 comment added Adam Crossland @Craige: after 21 years of experience with drinking and 20 years of experience as a professional software engineer, I am still working on the calibration part.
Feb 24, 2011 at 16:15 comment added Craige Wait...you mean it doesn't? (xkcd.com/323)
Feb 24, 2011 at 15:31 history answered Adam Crossland CC BY-SA 2.5