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Message-ID: <200403111432.i2BEWiUM015784@mailserver1.hushmail.com> From: auto465651 at hushmail.com (auto465651@...hmail.com) Subject: Meth and hacking? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ah yes, substances and hacking... I've dabbled with most things over the years... grass doesn't really help, but makes the experience of creative programmer a bit more enjoyable. ("Wow, Perl's OO is soooo cool! It's all so logical and consistent!") Alcohol is a complete no-no for anything but passive activities (reading mailing lists, staring at the latest pictures of rocks from Mars,..). Speed is just horrible and not worth taking for any reason. Coke is silly; I'd have loads of amazing ideas and insights, then woke up (very late) the next day to find that not only were they all bollocks, but I'd emailed half the world (including people at work) at 4am to explain them. Crack I only dabbled with briefly, long enough to realise that NOTHING is worth that kind of downer. Amazing that there's a worse drug than speed but there you go. I didn't try hacking on crack, you don't really want to do anything except very still, waiting for it to wear off and wondering whether to get another rock. On Ecstacy and acid I just stared at screensavers. Man oh man Jamie Zawinski has a lot to answer for... :) On a serious note, I don't think anything that changes your consciousness can actually improve your attention span, focus etc - AFAIK the only substance clinically proven to do so (this includes caffienne - all that does is make you tired and unable to sleep) is actually nicotine, but there are fairly severe side-effects to that. I did actually manage to get a fairly big project completed whilst using smack - not whilst actually high, of course, cos you'd keep nodding out in the middle of a line... But this is also of course strongly deprecated for all the well-known reasons. Interesting place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there... Finally I do think that selected hallucinogens can help with your general mindset. Hacking is certainly all about creative thought, which means looking at things in a new way, or applying techniques from one area to another. I like to take a trip every few years or so, just to blow the cobwebs away, and I stay away from everything else these days except fags (uh, tobacco) and a beer & a spliff or two in the evening to accelerate relaxation. If any young impressionable kids are out there, I strongly recommend you AVOID the well-known bad drugs - smack, crack and coke. I've never seen crystal meth but it certainly sounds like it fits into those categories. I had problems with a couple of the things mentioned above but I'm clean (of them!) now and enjoying life, work & recreational hacking much more as a result. It's hard to enjoy computers when your skin is trying to crawl off into the next room or you're "sweating, shaking, your body's aching badly, feel the fever in your bones" - gripped by violent stomach cramps and every cell of your brain is telling you to go and get just one more bag... but I think everyone should have at least one experience with LSD. Language and OS bigots may be interested to hear that I most enjoy Perl, Linux and emacs, respectively ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 2.3 wkYEARECAAYFAkBQeNAACgkQDVt1uUX7wx/2+gCcDlMNh2yeAcyvkmgxUP5tvW/1btIA nj73qTlio/k4PGHxk6K98MUXyZW1 =3PIV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Concerned about your privacy? Follow this link to get FREE encrypted email: https://www.hushmail.com/?l=2 Free, ultra-private instant messaging with Hush Messenger https://www.hushmail.com/services.php?subloc=messenger&l=434 Promote security and make money with the Hushmail Affiliate Program: https://www.hushmail.com/about.php?subloc=affiliate&l=427
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