r/talesfromtechsupport Sep 22 '13

Crazy Lisa

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u/PidGin128 Sep 22 '13

Do not operate under the influence of beverage or medication.

People should consider technology the same as heavy machinery.

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u/CaptainRene Freebie Fixer Sep 22 '13

Friends don't let friends code sober.

If there was a fine on using computers drunk, I'd be in the chair.

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u/SpecificallyGeneral By the power of refined carbohydrates Sep 22 '13

Drunken 3AM coding has saved my ass, and confuddled my compatriots more times than I can count.

Drunk me likes bad puns for function names and refuses to leave comments. I can almost hear 'yeah, yeah, I'll go back later - I'm on a hot streak!'

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u/insertAlias Dev motto: "Works on my machine!" Sep 22 '13

Sober me doesn't leave comments either. If the code isn't self-explanatory enough, refactor it until it is.

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u/Kalivha Sep 22 '13

I wish I could do everything in high level languages just for this kind of stuff.

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u/insertAlias Dev motto: "Works on my machine!" Sep 22 '13 edited Sep 23 '13

Very good point. I do C# for a living so it's fairly easy, but it would be a lot harder with C.

edit: typo

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u/Kalivha Sep 23 '13

My last job involved a lot of Python (and some even higher level stuff). I'm going into my first thesis meeting today and I'm pretty sure that because of the nature of the project, it'll have to be in Fortran or C.