Ask HN: How much of your production code have you written while drunk

Re:Ask HN: How much of your production code have you written... by savoy11 on Thursday November 25, 2010 @10:00AM (#1940336)

Right, but I'd like to hear the reasoning behind that. You mate with women while being drunk, you do lots of other stuff - and most of it is good. So why not code?

Give me the explanation behind that.

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Re:Ask HN: How much of your production code have you written... by cperciva on Thursday November 25, 2010 @10:35AM (#1940412)

You mate with women while being drunk...

I don't think that's a good idea, either. In both cases, if you make a small mistake you might need to support it for the next couple of decades.

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Re:Ask HN: How much of your production code have you written... by epo on Thursday November 25, 2010 @12:13PM (#1940601)

Driving is good, why not drive while drunk? The fact that you pose the question in that way indicates you have not thought about this at all which makes me wonder if you are even old enough to drink.

BTW the answer as to why not code when drunk is that you are almost certain to do a bad job. Coding requires discipline and thought, attributes you usually seek to abandon when drunk.

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Re:Ask HN: How much of your production code have you written... by dtf on Thursday November 25, 2010 @06:16PM (#1941220)

Perhaps he works for Airbus?

edit: apologies, cperciva, hadn't read your profile. Backup software is nearly as critical!

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