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Toasty code

March 18th, 2004

Just a basic economics of software development question: do you ever find that the quality of your after-hours coding goes up in direct proportion (though potentially with diminishing returns) to the number of beers you’ve consumed? In the spirit of continuous software process improvement, I believe I need to test these working conditions further. Anyone willing to provide me grant money, all in the spirit of research, of course? Fair warning: my requirements for beer are a definite determining factor on the cost of this research – no Bud Light, Natty Bo, etc. I hypothesize that my code works better because I’m more relaxed and suddenly find things amusing to fix, rather than pain-in-the-neck annoying or beyond-the-level-of-frustrating to fix. Note that this is not my usual method of after-hours coding. Somehow, tonight just felt like a good evening to imbibe. More follow up analysis required, particularly as I look at the results of my coding in the light of complete and unblanching sobriety.

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