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By Nitasha Tiku 5/02/12 5:04pm

Programmer Complains About Drunken Interview At New York City Startup, Wonders If Its Endemic

On the NYC sub-Reddit today, a user who goes by the handle “onmach” submitted a sincere inquiry about startup culture in New York. Onmach and a friend were considering a move out East, but the friend had a bad experience at a startup interview that devolved into what sounds like your standard brogramming nightmare. Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 4/13/12 7:54am

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Bottoms Up: The Ballmer Peak Is Real, Study Says

Is booze for programmers like spinach for Popeye? The Ballmer Peak, a reference to Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, holds that imbibing alcohol improves cognitive ability, up to a point–a variation of the Yerkes-Dodson law, which shows a correlation between arousal and performance. Anecdotal evidence suggests that optimal programming occurs about two beers in. But what sayeth science? Read More

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Coding Tipsy

Programmer Complains About Drunken Interview At New York City Startup, Wonders If Its Endemic

Bottoms Up: The Ballmer Peak Is Real, Study Says

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