A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and Motivation
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#2I can’t see how you can do anything other than micro-dose cannabis (small hits or low dosage edibles). You just get too high to be productive.
But I’m very interested to see if low dosages help.
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#3Is "programmer" a coherent group?
How much does a Senior Engineer doing something like writing kernel code have in common with a fresh high school grad writing on something like a single threaded ASP/PHP codebase for an internal tool that has fewer than 100 daily users?
I've done both of those jobs, and they both involve the same set of general tasks (requirements, brainstorming, coding). But in actuality they have almost nothing in common. The fact that both involve writing code is mostly a red herring.
More to the point: is a convenience sample taken by a university research group representative of the profession?
I'm generally suspicious of Emperical SE research that doesn't either:
1. focus on specific sub-populations of the programming profession, or else
2. make an extremely strong case that their research questions are highly likely to generalize across all research labor.
(edit: changed wording because many folks made the worst-possible interpretations of my original comment.)
Re: A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and Motivation
#4I can’t see how you can do anything other than micro-dose cannabis (small hits or low dosage edibles). You just get too high to be productive. But I’m very interested to see if low dosages help.
for me, cannabis is only useful for sleep and sometimes blank canvas thinking.
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#5> Furthermore, this cannabis usage is primarily motivated by a perceived enhancement to certain software development skills (such as brainstorming or getting into a programming zone) rather than medicinal reasons
How can anyone who has tried it remotely believe this nonsense?
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#6I think a lot of the overengineering is driven by amphetamines and self medication instead. I'd expect a system designed under Cannabis to be very simple and flexible.
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#7I can’t see how you can do anything other than micro-dose cannabis (small hits or low dosage edibles). You just get too high to be productive. But I’m very interested to see if low dosages help.
This is maybe pendantic but there are different types of productivity. If I really need to get one thing done, it does no favors to be stoned. But if you just want to learn, experiment, explore, I find it extremely useful in keeping myself patient and receptive.
I learn languages in very much sober place, but learning linux I can be stoned, and maybe it helps?
Also if your in this space at all, you just need to modify Hemingway's advice: commit stoned, but rebase sober!
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#8Somewhat related, but a recent Senate hearing cited the lack of a national standard regarding cannabis impaired driving. They voted to investigate further. Results may be counter-intuitive ;)
Interesting there is so little research into the actual *effects* on humans. You get better data from Leafly reviews!
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#9I can’t see how you can do anything other than micro-dose cannabis (small hits or low dosage edibles). You just get too high to be productive. But I’m very interested to see if low dosages help.
That depends. A lot of people who say you "just get too high" often have a super low tolerance, and they are smoking enough to get shit faced. If you smoke frequently and only do a puff, trust me, not everybody gets as high as you do with your one edible a month. I work at a top tech company smoking before work, it really only relaxes me at this point, however I smoked weed since 14.
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#10I can’t see how you can do anything other than micro-dose cannabis (small hits or low dosage edibles). You just get too high to be productive. But I’m very interested to see if low dosages help.
Anecdotally, I’ve found that when I’m stumped on a section of code, a micro dose, coupled with working on something else, _can_ speed my normal process of “walking away from a problem for a bit.” But yeah, exceeding a small amount just makes me code slower.
edit: originally omitted “something else”