For me weed is not really something that actively aids in problem-solving or brainstorming, but rather acts as more of a motivation booster. When it's 11pm and I have a handful of less-demanding tasks to slog through, that's where I've found weed to be a lot of help. It helps make otherwise routine tasks more engaging. It even gives me sufficient motivation to actively refactor and improve parts of codebase that I might've otherwise ignored or ticketed away in the backlog.
A Survey of Programmers' Cannabis Usage, Perception, and Motivation
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#12A personal anecdote; I don't find Cannabis useful for difficult problem solving, but for more repetitive tasks like writing unit tests it's a fun way to pass the time.
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#13Is "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 a…
> Is "programmer" a coherent group?
Well, it's a profession, so yes.
> They have almost nothing in common.
They both write code all day. Professionally.
I'm sorry for the snark. You might be able to make a case that this study doesn't take income into account but that's not the comment you're making here.
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#14For me weed is not really something that actively aids in problem-solving or brainstorming, but rather acts as more of a motivation booster. When it's 11pm and I have a handful of less-demanding tasks to slog through, that's where I've found weed to be a lot of help. It helps make otherwise routine tasks more engaging. It even gives me sufficient motivation to actively refactor and improve parts of codebase that I mi…
Why are you working at 11pm?
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#15I got my three kids desks for christmas. Put them down to bed for the night and smoke a little weed. I was shocked how I couldn’t follow ikea desk instructions. Got frustrated and decided to try again sober. I was super shocked the next day how easy it was to follow when sober.
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#16Somewhat 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!
Because the DEA and the "War" on Drugs opposed any research.
Just as congress prohibited the government from maintaining statistics on gun violence almost 20 years ago.
If you don't like what might be learned, don't let anyone look.
(I don't like smoking pot, or really any mind altering substances, but other peoples' use is none of my business and I think it is worth a study).
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#17Is "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 a…
> Is "programmer" a coherent group? Well, it's a profession, so yes. > They have almost nothing in common. They both write code all day. Professionally. I'm sorry for the snark. You might be able to make a case that this study doesn't take income into account but that's not the comment you're making here.
I think there's a fundamental complexity and skills-required difference between someone writing kernel code or microcode and someone writing a generic CRUD app.
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#18For me weed is not really something that actively aids in problem-solving or brainstorming, but rather acts as more of a motivation booster. When it's 11pm and I have a handful of less-demanding tasks to slog through, that's where I've found weed to be a lot of help. It helps make otherwise routine tasks more engaging. It even gives me sufficient motivation to actively refactor and improve parts of codebase that I mi…
Why are you working at 11pm?
During the day I just kind of loaf around, answer questions on slack, practice music, work out, etc.
Late at night is the only time I can get any deep work done.
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#19Is "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 a…
I’ve also done both of those jobs, and they have quite a bit in common. The scale of the problems to be solved may be different, and that naturally results in some differences between the roles, but the fundamentals are all the same.
It’s unclear what kind of point you’re trying to make and how it had any bearing on the cannabis angle.
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#20For me weed is not really something that actively aids in problem-solving or brainstorming, but rather acts as more of a motivation booster. When it's 11pm and I have a handful of less-demanding tasks to slog through, that's where I've found weed to be a lot of help. It helps make otherwise routine tasks more engaging. It even gives me sufficient motivation to actively refactor and improve parts of codebase that I mi…
Wow, thanks for this viewpoint. It's cool how weed can have such opposite effects for different users. For me (and apparently for tons of other weed smokers given the "And then I got high" song), it is 180 the opposite - weed makes me completely useless.