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By: MM

MM — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:43:01 +0000

niko: I kept it up for a couple months but then stopped. After a couple months you start thinking, sugar can’t be that bad, I’ll have just a little, and you start taking more. And you dont even notice when you are taking it regularly. But you’re not yourself anymore and there must be some divine intervention for you to stop taking it again.
Anyway how does it work for you?

By: niko šveikovsky

niko šveikovsky — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:24:42 +0000

back to your evil ways, huh? i remember a post from 2008:

“Absolutely no sugar

This is by far the biggest brain killer I discovered. It literally makes your brain soft – scientific fact. Well at least for me, I guess this comes from meditating and knowing your mind states. I definitely am not myself after sugar. This is again counter-intuitive cause everybody will tell you glucoze gives you an energy boost, maybe for your muscles but not when you need to use your brain.”

that post, one and a half years ago, motivated me to cut sugar from my diet. even though you couldn’t keep it up for fifteen months (completely understandable), it’s saved my brain from disintegrating.

By: MM

MM — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:37:16 +0000

yv3: green tea doesnt have caffeine, only black

archont: Testosterone makes you active and feel like conquering the world. IT is useful for long-term planning. But I would disagree that it is useful for a coder. I could spend a whole day and night programming much easier before I started lifting weights (which induce testosterone). It is a distracting hormone for coding, you spend more time thinking about fucking women and dominating other men. I’m much better at programming on my “down” days.

By: yv3

yv3 — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:55:55 +0000

Fourth, it makes you grow breasts.

By: archont

archont — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:23:39 +0000

From personal experience testosterone is a pretty good drug for coders.

One, it makes you motivated and active. Two, it really encourages physical excercise, which really clears the mindfog.

Third, it gives you Roid Rage, which is freaking awesome.

By: yv3

yv3 — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:16:59 +0000

Tea is better than Coffee for programming, the duration of the effect is longer and more stable. Many people say that green tea ist the best, but the taste is a bit strange in my opinion.
I prefer Coffee in the morning for better shit at wc. Try not to drink Coffee in afternoon, it will cost you some minutes of sleep…

By: MM

MM — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:55:28 +0000

Yes caffeine is good. I’m drinkking really strong yerba mate lately.
Cocaine is good too, I heard.

By: Snow

Snow — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:34:13 +0000

Caffiene will make your brain work faster. Drink coffee.

By: grähe

grähe — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:29:05 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. I kind of like your view of this subject.

By: MM

MM — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:24:56 +0000

Underline: there is some truth to that:)

grähe: Cause they contain processed sugar. There is no benefit in sugar except a short boost of energy and feeling good. I confess it helps programming, but only in the short term.
In the long term processed sugar, first of all makes you fat. Second makes your brain foggy.
Try not eating for a couple hours. You get into a very clear state of mind when you are hungry. This is how I want to feel all the time but by eating normally (to do this you have to select what you eat). If I eat sweets I can feel mental fog coming from it and it prevents me from having this state.
So right now I’m probably in the pain period. It’s like with every drug, your body must get used to not getting the substance from the environment. It is capable of producing the energy without the sugar, it is just lazy. So it must be taught.