Re:Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)
by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday April 17, 2021 @03:15PM
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> all the stimulants everyone was using to code more
That's interesting. Do you mean Adderall/Ritalin?
That stuff has a relatively fixed useful half-life. It doesn't work for as long as people might think. It also doesn't actually make thinking clearer. It makes people feel as if they are thinking more clearly. I don't feel like looking for it, but this has been studied and reported, somewhere.
If you are referring to crank, well, the half-life of that stuff is even shorter...
Never tried any of them myself and don't know which they were referring to, but the other replies are probably in the right direction.
Cocaine, MDMA and LSD seem to be favourite drugs around town, here in BC. I mean, besides the usual marijuana, tobacco and beer.
I suspect this is literally true, but only because we don't see them. I've heard second-hand the story of a top developer at a famous unicorn who just couldn't keep up with all the stimulants everyone was using to code more and burned out, bought a cabin in the woods, and became a hermit.