As a thank you to the HN community that made Hacker Fair (for the Hacker Dojo) so great, I'm giving $5 off... which means it's $10 for an open bar on Cinco De Mayo.
I personally like to drink and code because it is a natural way to alert me when to call it a night.
Also, I am a bit of an obsessive 'pre-thinker' so it helps get over that hump and get me coding.
Strangely, I wake up more refreshed after those nights than when I 'just want to get through one more TODO'.
Remember: Lots of checkpoint commits to your local repo...you'll probably have to trash the last couple. and you should avoid committing to the master until you've had a chance to clean up in the morning. Alarms are good for this.
That might be a good time to use a BAC calculator and post your findings...one 'measurement' per commit and judge the code later. If you do this, please post a graph. I would be interested in seeing this data.
And may your Ballmer peak become a Ballmer plateau!
Haha my team and I tested the peak in San Antonio on the StartupBus following 3 long days of coding and a long day at Rackspace. Result of Initial Trial: Night ends down one developer (sleeping at the hotel at this point) while the remaining three of us walk to McDonald's which we soon discovered was located in a "less than desirable" area. +1 to the cop who got us safely out of there.
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Programming ability might have to be more subjective, but we've also built a Ballmer Calculator based off well established formulas.
Basically, you put in your weight and sex, we tell you how much you 'should' drink to get to the Ballmer Peak.
Also, I am a bit of an obsessive 'pre-thinker' so it helps get over that hump and get me coding.
Strangely, I wake up more refreshed after those nights than when I 'just want to get through one more TODO'.
Remember: Lots of checkpoint commits to your local repo...you'll probably have to trash the last couple. and you should avoid committing to the master until you've had a chance to clean up in the morning. Alarms are good for this.
That might be a good time to use a BAC calculator and post your findings...one 'measurement' per commit and judge the code later. If you do this, please post a graph. I would be interested in seeing this data.
And may your Ballmer peak become a Ballmer plateau!
Well done!
Also, it helps to be part hacker :)
No McDonalds though, sorry.