Re: Stoned web design
Oh god yeah. The worst part though is when you're sober you can't understand what you wrote and need to get drunk again.
I had a housemate years ago (works for a large accountancy software firm now) that used to get drunk at the same time and we'd go on weird coding marathons.
The idea was we'd set a very simple goal and attempt to come up with the fewest lines of code to achieve that goal. E.g. card shuffling algorithm, list sorting algorithms, vector prediction algorithms etc.
We were truly at our peak. We could chuck out code while hammered that was elegant and efficient. Neither of us are that good anymore.
We came up with algorithms I still don't fully understand.
The card shuffling algos we came up with are like alien technology.
We wrote things almost exclusively in BASIC or C and one of the key rules is that we weren't allowed to use descriptive English readable names anywhere in our code for variables. We weren't allowed to comment our code and we weren't allowed to reuse any code.
If we hit a wall or big that couldn't be fixed within a reasonable amount of time we had to start from scratch observing the rules above.
The purpose was to find different routes to solve a problem. A bit like starting at one end of a forest and trying to sprint through it without stopping. If we had to stop, back to the edge of the forest and another route had to be found but an already beaten path could not be used.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
