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Re:Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack... by thenerdfiles on Friday December 27, 2013 @10:52PM (#6973828)
To be clear, I am not being facetious. If you want to throw around cut-throat, myopic terms like "crutch", then let me first note that caffeine is a performance-enhancing nootropic; and I've worked with a developer who never once ate lunch in my 6 months working along side him. I personally eat lunch maybe once a week.

And honestly, I smirk at people who do eat lunch. And it goes without saying what I think of leisure-lunchers.

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Re:Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack... by ShirtlessRod on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:02PM (#6973859)
Why would you smirk at people who eat lunch?
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Re:Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack... by thenerdfiles on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:09PM (#6973881)
Well, I wanted to give a "frank" tit for tat, to anyone who might argue this "crutch" position.

I personally enjoy the pain of hunger as I code. That's why. I smirk in that I more fully realize my difference from others when I know they clearly do not enjoy that pain. I'm surely not saying it makes me better or smarter. I smirk in that I, in a way, come to know myself better: that I enjoy the pain of hunger, and what it looks like of others who do not, given the context.

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Re:Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack... by thenerdfiles on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:32PM (#6973948)
Hm. I suppose that said it doesn't "go without saying." I'll recant there and say that I think leisure-lunching is, in my view, a kind of "crutch." Nourishment is essential, leisure is not.
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