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ditch
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
South Africa
1416 Posts |
 Posted - 09/10/2004 : 00:21:22
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Just curios......
How many cups a working day - do the members here have.
I was told that "real programmers" drink many cups of coffee and are chain smokers and do other things that are "really great" for their health.
I was put off coffee for about 10 years(due to the poor quality coffee that I was being fed in the army), but recently started consuming it again (not great quantities though - about 2 cups a working day) - bearing in mind we have a relatively warm climate here almost all year round - the climate is more condusive to consuming soft drinks like Coca Cola (which I drink a lot of).
Oh - and I have never smoked..... tabaco.
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timmy
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
Australia
1242 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 00:48:58
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I'm not a big fan of coffee, but I tend to have about 4 cups of tea a day - must be the English blood in me.
But coke tends to work better in the afternoon, I find.... |
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RickD
Slow But Sure Yak Herding Master
United Kingdom
3560 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 05:05:46
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Also a tea drinker, drink about 7-8 cups during work and more in te evenings...
Also smoke way too much... |
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master
Slovenia
11741 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 05:19:33
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don't like coffee, never have. don't smoke either :)
i'm more of a water drinker at work.
beer is after work 
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SamC
White Water Yakist
USA
3459 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 06:46:17
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Geez moneez. I drink a couple cups-o-java a day.
Dunkin Doughnuts makes the best stuff in town, but I'll drink Starbucks in a pinch - 2 pump mocha, 2% milk, hold the whip... |
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Seventhnight
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
USA
2878 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 07:20:24
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I drink hot chocolate... not coffe. Usually, at work, its a mug a day and a coca-cola a day
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ehorn
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
USA
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master
Slovenia
11741 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 07:42:49
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although i must say that coffee in USA is not as strong as the one in Europe.
at least not the one the guys here drink...
we had a visitor from Usa and we gave him coffee, and he almost choked
it was too strong for him. so i guess it's all relative to how mucha caffeine you consume.
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uberman
Posting Yak Master
153 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 07:50:58
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4 Mugs of Tea (Earl Gray of Course) in the Morning
Water in the Afternoon
Gin in the evening |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
15586 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 09:12:29
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You call yourself developers...why in my day...
I gave up coffee and cigs...just recently mind you....
But in the day...when you could smoke at your desk...(didn't smoke then)...it was a pack of unfiltered camels, and a jug of coffee..black 4 sugars....
Before Lunch....
Brett
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SamC
White Water Yakist
USA
3459 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 10:53:10
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| That's nothin! I used to walk 9 miles through snow to get to work ;-) |
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Seventhnight
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
USA
2878 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 11:02:32
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I had to walk all the way from my bedroom to my office (all 10 steps) this morning 
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X002548
Not Just a Number
15586 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 11:11:45
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quote:
Originally posted by SamC
That's nothin! I used to walk 9 miles through snow to get to work ;-)
Uphill! Both Ways! With no shoes! And you had to feed the gerbiles just to boot up!
Brett
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ehorn
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
USA
1629 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 11:12:38
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quote:
Originally posted by SamC
That's nothin! I used to walk 9 miles through snow to get to work ;-)
Up hill both ways.. And fight off a grizzly bear with the spiral notebook :) |
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master
Slovenia
11741 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 11:13:01
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don't forget about milking cows in the morning before sunrise... 
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Seventhnight
Flowing Fount of Yak Knowledge
USA
2878 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 11:28:54
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...Or milking the bulls...
(anyone seen:For Richer or Poorer)
Corey |
Edited by - Seventhnight on 09/10/2004 11:29:29 |
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master
Slovenia
11741 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 11:37:46
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yeah i watched that a few weeks ago amuzing
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rockmoose
SQL Natt Alfen
Sweden
3279 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 12:31:13
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Well ditch, the question for real programmers should be:
How many cups of coffee do You need in the morning before Your brain starts working ?
Is not being able to sleep unless you drink a cup of coffee a sign of addiction?
Personally I must confess I have grown soft over the years, and take milk with my coffee to assimilate enough calcium and vitamin D now
rockmoose
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Pat Phelan
Posting Yak Master
187 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 13:32:34
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Unfortunately, unless I visit my friend the anesthesiologist, my brain doesn't ever stop... The little bugger puts the Energizer Bunny to shame!
Weekdays I'll do a cup or three of coffee a day, often in the evening. Weekends I'll do about a pot or so each day.
-PatP
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mohdowais
Sheikh of Yak Knowledge
United Arab Emirates
1456 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2004 : 14:22:36
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A cup of tea in the morning is usually all I need to get through the day. Another cup of tea or coffee in the afternoon to ward off drowsiness from a good lunch become necessary at times, though
I can't beleive the quantities of tea/coffee/tobacco some of my colleagues consume, wonder if their hands are ever free enough to use the keyboard! I think at such levels, it tends to become counter-productive. To most its an addiction, and they can't function without it then. All that caffiene and nicotine hardly helps them, but not having it certainly leads to a fall in productivity.
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derrickleggett
Pointy Haired Yak DBA
USA
4184 Posts |
Posted - 09/12/2004 : 23:16:10
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I usually have a few kinds of coffee and about 20 types of tea sitting around. :) Used to work in a coffee shop though, so I guess old habits die hard.
MeanOldDBA
derrickleggett@hotmail.com
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