Ask HN: What do you drink?

Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by oldgregg on Monday July 27, 2009 @08:02PM (#727077)

Wow. Water is #1 -- and not a single mention of jolt or mountain dew. What a weak generation of hackers -- you know where the term "flow state" came from? David Lightman used to drink his own urine during long coding sessions. That's a scientific fact.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by old-gregg on Monday July 27, 2009 @08:10PM (#727097)

Ha. Old Greggs think alike. Old school programmers, those who created web servers, compilers and the universe, used to drink coffee, smoke pot and read man pages. Today's generation drinks water, smokes ground PG essays and watches screencasts instead of reading proper documentation.

:P

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by oldgregg on Monday July 27, 2009 @08:15PM (#727105)

Exactly. And when we weren't playing LoRD on our own BBS we just spent hours rewinding Hackers for THAT ONE SHOT with Angelina Jolie.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by jackchristopher on Monday July 27, 2009 @07:56PM (#727065)

And it kills foggy brain.

But the best effect is you know it's healthy, so you don't feel bad. Tea too. Green and white tea are high in antioxidants. Drink up.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by HalcyonMuse on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @05:07AM (#727633)

Well, depends where you live... I spent a summer in Santa Clara in a really crappy apartment and the water always developed this weird white film (or was it a precipitate? I forget) if you let it sit. I considered it very suspicious and did not drink water from the tap at home - I got my fill at work.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by rs on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @12:12AM (#727409)

True true

2 weeks ago I would have said "coffee" - used to drink about 6-8 cups a day between 3 am and 7 pm (working hours). Over the past 2 weeks I've switched over to mostly water and 2 cups of coffee per day at most and its unbelievably fantastic.

Water for me has to be room temperature though. Not sure why.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by splat on Monday July 27, 2009 @09:08PM (#727181)

At over 7:1 (at last check), I think this comment wins the award for "Highest Karma to Character Ratio"!

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by rms on Monday July 27, 2009 @09:57PM (#727256)

I'm sure there is a "yes" or "no" out there that wins.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by HalcyonMuse on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @05:08AM (#727634)

We'll throw this one in the "non-binary response" category then.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by CyberFonic on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @03:17AM (#727582)

H20 ... chilled. Used to be Coke (2-4 cans a day) then coffee (3-5 mugs a day). These days an afternoon coffee and snack bar is a once or at most twice a week treat. Typically after eradicating some extra perfidious bug!

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by effektz on Monday July 27, 2009 @07:46PM (#727043)

mixed with a little bit of 100% fruit juice

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by skoob on Monday July 27, 2009 @08:45PM (#727157)

But, then it's no longer 100% fruit juice!

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Re:Ask HN: What do you drink? by pasbesoin on Monday July 27, 2009 @11:36PM (#727375)

I do this, as well. And during/after exercise, I'll drink a 50/50 mix. I don't know whether it's the "proper" approach, but it keeps my stomach settled whereas a lot of plain water can start to feel "heavy" particularly in the stomach. I'm thinking particularly of long (outdoor) cycle rides, back when I did that.

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