Ask HN: What are your coding vices?

What gets you through the day at work? Does it enhance your ability to perform? E.g., coffee. Or more exotic chemicals. Foods? I'm curious.

Coffee, diet coke and music. I miss smoking.

Yeah, music is very important to my concentration. I like Pandora a lot. Plus it provides nice micro-breaks when you can rate songs or create a new station. I like it so much for concentrating that the ad interruptions took me out of the zone so I paid for Pandora One. :)

The middle of the afternoon is the worst time for me. I wake myself up with an apple or some celery and a quick walk around the block.

Music is very important to me... a lot of genres.. depending on the kind of work I need to do: if I am building something complex which requires a lot of concentration I go for ambient music or even classical. If, on the other hand, I have to write something not very complex but tedious and repetitive, i go for tedious and repetitive music, goa trance, dubstep or dnb. Spotify is great: I've got some playlists especially done for different types of programming (web apps, max concentration, repetitive & tedious code, chilled down etc...)

But when it comes to other vices... heavy smoking, "full-fat" Coke and coffee keep me happy :) I will probably not be able to keep it up like this for long... I guess I should grow up and quit.. but that's another story