Zero. 1-2 cups of tea (usually black, but sometimes Chai because my flatmates prefer that).
Guessing my average per day would be 1.5 cups or so.
Ask HN: How much coffee do you drink as a programmer?
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#63I make a 1 litre cafetière of coffee most days, which makes three mugs of coffee. I use about 50g - 60g coffee per cafetière. I have a Bodum Columbia which is insulated to help keep the coffee hot for a couple of hours. And I try not to have more caffeine after my morning coffee.
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#64Pre lockdown:double-shot when I wake up wile the Keurig was heating up, then a cup of coffee. 5-shot latte on the way to work, sometimes a 4-shot afternoon latte.
I gave up coffee once in the 90’s for a month. I felt rundown and was very congested; I thought I had the flu. One day walking through the breakroom I was walking past the coffee pot and had to have a cup.i felt a bit better and went back for another. I felt better still. After 5 cups, I felt fine and my congestion was gone! I never cared after that how much coffee I drank as long as I got enough.
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#6510-12 on a work day, have done for 20 years. When I'm off I end up having 3-4 during the course of the day but certainly feel more sluggish on those days.
I took a break for 4 months a few years back (to see if I could) and really struggled to keep my eyes open, even with 8 hours sleep on a normal day.
I don't have any issue sleeping and no negative effects from large volumes of coffee. I drink high strength coffee.
This is also probably offset because I drink a lot of water during my day as well. Again probably 10+ pints of water during the course of the day. I'll drink water no matter what I'm doing. I can't fathom how some people go hours without water, to me it's the most important thing for my brain function.
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#66I prefer extremely dark, almost charcoal roasts (which actually have less caffeine) of Colombian or Indonesian origins. Roast them myself in a pan over a gas stove. I can drink 3-4 mugs of Aeropress coffee, 17g beans per cup. This, and smoking a pipe of a good English or Oriental tobacco, absolutely heaven.
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#67A while back (couple years) I started tracking how much coffee I drank, and (roughly) when. I created a simple Mojolicious webapp, putting data on a SQLite database. I later expanded it to accept/use an "API key" with which I could track my coffee intake, or get how much I drank already and when was my last cup, "simply" by running a simple bash+curl script. The site, instead, displays a neat github-commits-like char…
That's so overkill and so cool at the same time, a super engineer behavior lol. Nice job!
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#68None.
I've never liked the smell/taste, and on the occasions when I get some caffeine from a different source, I find that, at most, the effect I get from it is a bit of jitteriness and a headache later on.
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#69In https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/11/13/coffee-cardiova..., Gruber writes:
> I like that 5 cups of coffee per day qualified as “moderate”. That’s right around what I consume.
My immediate thought was "that's crazy, if anyone I know were to drink that much, he'd get mighty uncomfortable or even ill with shaky hands, a punishing heartbeat and heavy sweat". I told my colleagues. One replied and pointed out that the Americans dilute.
All the measurements in the comments so far are useless for drawing a conclusion. We should use milligrams of caffeine consumed and the body weight to have a sound basis for comparison.
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#70I like the taste of coffee but is no impact on my body: I am not more alert, I can go to sleep right after a coffee and I have no problems with sleep.
I usually drink 4 or 5 Nespresso cups. Sometimes 6 or 7.
I can go without anytime, but I would then sometimes miss the taste and the whole "sitting in the hamac/couch with a coffee"