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I just didn't want to derail things into another "AA is bad because it's religious" discussion. To paraphrase Heinlein: If solemnly rubbing blue mud in my belly button would have g…

Drank for the first 25 years of my career. High-functioning alcoholic, I guess. You've definitely heard of the products I have a bunch of code in, and the companies I worked for. I…

There is a big difference between foreign workers who are great and add value, and foreign workers who are brought over, are subsequently exploited, and who are also used to depres…

The Vive APIs are open. They're not connected to any Steam DRM (which I believe is optional -- and in any event, Valve doesn't nail developers down to exclusives; you're free to se…

15+ years sober here, mostly through some recovery programs and a lot of AA. Neither the "disease" model (which has connotations of communicability) nor the AA "allergy" model (the…

I did some LSD about 35 years ago. More than once. For a few days afterward it utterly knackered my ability to write good code, or do anything that required concentrated, logical t…

15 years sober here. Before that I drank like crazy while shipping a bunch of software that you've definitely heard of. The only way this dumb monkey could quit was to quit altoget…

15 years sober. So, I don't drink. Before that, hoo boy :-) I was at a bar last night with co-workers, and as long as I have a diet coke or something in my hand I'm okay. Weekly AA…

I drank very heavily for ~ 20 years, a high functioning alcoholic and software engineer. Most of you have heard of stuff I've worked on. My other HN account has a pretty high karma…

Throwaway account here. I was a "high functioning" alcoholic; 35 years in the software business, and I've worked for companies I know you've heard of, and you've almost certainly u…