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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by tosser8398b9 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @09:56AM (#18345692)
I’ve had many programming design breakthroughs while lifted. Write ‘em down, check ‘em the next day - many remain awesome (and some are confused).

Something about the heightened ability to focus on a single thing, deeply.

As you say - it’s a deeply personal thing. I also never actually smoke anymore. Edibles FTW

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by 5trokerac3 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:24AM (#18345917)
One might consider that an artistic/creative revelation. Weed is definitely good for that.

"Why is this code breaking?" Not so much...

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by RIMR on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:30AM (#18346513)
For you.

Carl Sagan touted pot's ability to help him with abstract mathematics, so YMMV.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by fhood on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:46AM (#18346685)
Abstract mathematics, and finding bugs, are not terribly closely related skills.
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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by vokep on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:18PM (#18347000)
They are in that they both require abstract thinking, working in rigid systems.
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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by 5trokerac3 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:36PM (#18348643)
I totally disagree. Good bug fixing hinges on the ability to mentally organize multiple potential, interrelated points of failure. It's being able to have a working sense of the architecture and chain of logic without having to go back to the source too often.

The difference between abstract thinking and bug fixing is literally left vs. right brain.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by cinnamonheart on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:27PM (#18347087)
Luckily, this point speaks to that:

> Something about the heightened ability to focus on a single thing, deeply.

I've found it helpful in sussing out tricky bugs that otherwise eluded me, in addition to it helping with the more creative aspects of software development.

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