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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by hvidgaard on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:22AM (#12813551)
I used to do that as well when I was younger. Obviously not with Soylent, that wasn't around then. It works well for menial programming tasks where time is the limiting factor. Incidently, those are the problems where you can for the most part jump out and right back in without too much overhead. But when facing a hard problem, getting up and away from the computer, and cooking a meal always mean I'll solve the problem faster and better. Simply because I let the problem alone for a while. I even use non tech coworkers for sparing, explaning the problem, and answering their questions means I'll have to think about the problem in a significantly different way - often revealing insight in the process. YMMW
Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by stickfigure on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:39AM (#12814067)
A thousand times this. I remember staying up late to finish programming problems when I was young (and stupid). Now I find the most effective way of solving hard programming problems is to spend an afternoon attacking it and then go to sleep at a normal hour. Magically, an elegant solution - usually quite different from work in progress - appears in my brain while I'm showering.

I do my best work while sleeping, I just need to figure out how to bill for it.

Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by arethuza on Friday October 28, 2016 @07:51AM (#12814899)
Agreed - for really hard problems I've never found that pounding away directly is effective. I load up on the required information and then intentionally go and do something else (ironically cooking seem to does it for me but overnight and in shower also works) and out of nowhere a solution will appear.
Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by markdown on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:37AM (#12813604)
> I used to do that as well when I was younger. Obviously not with Soylent, that wasn't around then.

Is Soylent ramen for rich people?

Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by t4nkd on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:10AM (#12813938)
Oh, hey, this is my favorite so far. Can Soylent just be a shitty food choice, full stop? I think yes!
Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by livingparadox on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:37AM (#12817112)
If Ramen were nutritionally complete to a reasonably modern understanding of Human nutrition
Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by TeMPOraL on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:22AM (#12813987)
Maybe, except it seems better to your body than most normal meals you eat ;).
Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by simplemath on Friday October 28, 2016 @05:28AM (#12814295)
Stealing this shamelessly