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The title “Cocktails for programmers” gives me the same feeling as would the phrase “Leaf blowers for stamp collectors”.

Yes, a stamp collector might use a leaf blower, but it would not be relevant to collecting stamps. On the contrary, using a leaf blower while collecting stamps would be… inadvisable.

Agreed.

Further reading: http://old.ryanfunduk.com/culture-of-exclusion/

I feel more excluded by people who attempt to communicate using meme images and animated gifs than by references to alcohol.

I'd never push people to drink, but that guy gets boring quickly.

I really hate board games. Seriously, I hate them, and I don't understand why so many people in my social circles enjoy them. I can't count the number of times I've been at a party and everything has been going nicely, and then all of a sudden, game time.

You think maybe I should write a long-winded self-aggrandizing blog post about this culture of exclusion?

I can appreciate not liking the brogrammer phenomenon, and not being interested in conferences that are so party-focused, but this guy really has a huge bug up his ass about other people enjoying themselves. "I'm not interested in 'partying hard', I want to talk with like-minded people about subjects I don't necessarily get to talk about at the office." Well, guess what, you can't force people to sit down and talk nodejs with you if they want to drink instead. Sorry the world isn't the way you really really want it to be.

The guy seems to be interpreting a lot of his examples in the worst possible light, too. Example: Q: Is there space set up for hacking? A: We have done this for previous conferences, but to be honest people were having too much social fun to really take advantage of the space. Translation: Y U NO DRINKING!?

That's a stupid translation. They set up hacking space before and very few people used it, so they didn't bother this time. You have your cause and effect backwards if you think this means they're trying to force you to drink.

Or: "Perks for working for them include dental coverage, and 'weekly happy hour'. Those who don't want to participate in getting sloshed regularly... need not apply?"

Jesus, dude, settle down. You've taken a perk of employment and turned it into a statement that if you don't drink you're not welcome? Please let go of your persecution complex. I know it's really fun to be indignant that others encouraging you to have a good time is so totally unfair, but it's really no different than people saying "No seriously, The Wire is fucking fantastic! You have to watch it!"

Interacting with humans isn't that hard if you allow yourself and others to actually act like humans.

> you can't force people to sit down and talk nodejs with you if they want to drink instead.

Apparently, if you give most technical conference attendees the option (and venue, drinks, transport, etc), they will opt for going drinking in environments not suited for conversation. If this happens, I interpret it as a failure of the conference organizers. Why? Because their job is to organize a conference, not a party. If they want to leave some time for people to party (or pray, or go skinny-dipping, or windsurfing, etc.), then they can do so. However, to actively encourage people to be non-networking and to not talk (usefully) about the actual conference topic is, in my view, an anti-pattern of conferences.

Perhaps your idea of what a conference is, and what is well-suited for it, does not mesh with observed reality. Maybe that sort of conference just is not for you (I know your idea of a conference is not for me).

I've got to say though, even heavy drinking has never stopped me from having technical conversations with people, even in crowded bars...

Just as long as there isn't house music blaring. I don't even like that for non-technical socializing. One reason bar owners like the loud music is that it induces people to drink more. If people could hear each other they may get caught up in conversation and not take as many sips of their drinks.

Trust me, I don't like loud noise as much as anybody. I pick my bars accordingly (Yelp is typically pretty good at reporting noise levels, but at an event you can just walk around until you find an appropriate location).

(I think you are reading into my comment something I did not write. I do not know what you think my "idea of a conference" would be.)

I have tried to have technical conversations at parties and in bars with people I know to be interested in and knowledgeable in the topic. It's basically impossible.

Firstly, the loud music and other conversation makes it very hard to hear what they're saying, and the things said therefore tend to be simplified into what can be said simply in short words.

Secondly, they are often drunk and/or more interested in talking about beer or something than the topic they presumably are at the conference to advance. This is, of course, understandable; they're not expecting to have anything whatsoever to do with the conference topic at the party, since nobody else is, either.

Thirdly, there are no whiteboards to use as discussion aids. It's also quite dark, and it's often cramped so you can't easily show somebody something by moving around. Basically, bars and party rooms are not exactly conducive to productive discussions. (In the past there would also be no internet and, further back, no computers, but that has thankfully become a non-issue these days.)

My issue is this line: "Because their job is to organize a conference, not a party."

You are saying that conferences should not be like parties, because conferences are not like parties. You are just using your restricted definition of conference (not like a party) to support what you think a conference should be (not like a party). My take on it is that some conferences empirically do have many similarities to parties. This doesn't make them 'not conferences', so saying "their job is to organize a conference, not a party" is setting up a dichotomy that doesn't actually exist.

If that isn't your sort of conference, then no problem, not everything is for everybody. Personally I prefer more intimate technical conversations over a beer, a bar napkin, and a cellphone than sterile professional presentations in front of a whiteboard. Obviously you do not, and that is perfectly fine as well. There is room in this world for both; there is no reason to discourage one or the other from existing.

> You are saying that conferences should not be like parties, because conferences are not like parties

Not quite.

What I am saying is that conferences and parties have different goals. The goal of a conference is to advance the field. The goal of a party is to have fun. The goal of a conference is not advanced by organizing a party, nor is the goal of a party advanced by organizing a conference.

A conference can (and perhaps should) have many elements of a party in it — evening social activities, perhaps even in a bar where alcolhol (gasp!) is consumed. All of this may be perfectly fine. But, these activities should be organized with the goal of the conference in mind.

However, what many conference organizers seem to do is fill the days with talks, (while minimizing the time between talks to fit as many as possible), and then on the evenings they try to organize the best party they can think of. The best party, mind you, not the best socializing activity, which might have advanced the networking in the field, but the best party, whatever the tastes of the organizers and/or the prospective attendees.

This makes the conference a series of undiscussed talks in the daytime, followed by a series of usually pounding party keggers at night. The talks can be watched at home if they are filmed, and the parties can be had locally, too. There is no reason to attend these kinds of conferences. Unless, of course, you are already connected and go to any number of conferences a year and meet all the same people — your party buddies.

> The goal of a conference is to advance the field. The goal of a party is to have fun. The goal of a conference is not advanced by organizing a party, nor is the goal of a party advanced by organizing a conference.

That is nothing more than your personal take on what a conference should be. The reality is that many conferences aren't like that. It is no skin off your back if other people have a different idea if what a conference should be, and implement their vision of a conference.

Nobody is saying you have to go enjoy a party-like conference, and all I am saying is that you in turn should not tell other people that they shouldn't.

I still think you see me through some kind of tinted shades which makes you think I am saying things I am not saying.

However, I have run out of ideas on how to explain myself in yet other ways.

EDIT: I think now that we are having a word definition debate here. When you say that “many conferences aren't like that“, then I would call those themed parties, not conferences.

You're saying that conferences should not place too much emphasis the party aspects, because that is not the purpose of a conference. Right?

Well I'm saying that I think that is too imposing.

It would be like me saying that bowling alleys should be careful not to place too much emphasis on drinking, because the purpose of a bowling alley is to compete with others at rolling a ball at things. Who am I to say that others shouldn't think that the purpose of bowling is to drink with friends while occasionally rolling a ball around? I shouldn't impose my idea of the purpose of bowling on other people.

I hope it is clear what I mean.

I think you are doing the same faulty comparison you made with board games in another comment. The purpose of all those activities (party, board games, bowling) is to have fun. I'm saying that the very definition of a conference is that it has a different goal. Conferences can (and should, by all means possible) be as fun as possible, but with the goal of the conference taking slight precedence.

Since having a party-like atmosphere will make people come to the conference, by all means conferences should have them. But one should keep in mind that the party-like atmosphere does not obscure or negate the purpose of the conference in the first place.

" I'm saying that the very definition of a conference is that it has a different goal. ... the goal of the conference taking slight precedence."

So long as you realize that this sentence is just a statement your own personal opinion, not some sort of universal truth about conferences, then I don't think we have any issue. The goal, or purpose, of a conference is something for organizers and participants to decide for themselves.

(The answer to "You think maybe I should write a long-winded self-aggrandizing blog post about this culture of exclusion?" is "No you should not jlgreco, because that would make you (even more of) an insufferable cock.")

Well, I guess it comes down to what the definition of “conference” is, I suppose.

Yes. That's why he opened his initial response with "perhaps your idea of what a conference is [...]"

> Apparently, if you give most technical conference attendees the option (and venue, drinks, transport, etc), they will opt for going drinking in environments not suited for conversation.

And your conclusion from this is that conference organizers should give people less of what they want?

Perhaps you are as serious and focused as you are advocating here, but I think you might find that a lot of people want a bit more than just sitting in an auditorium "talking usefully about the actual conference topic" to make the trip fun. If a conference devolves into pure binge drinking and partying, then yes, I can understand your concern. But some amount of partying is a legitimate draw for people and it fills seats. That's just the way it goes.

Conference attendees are still paying customers. Giving them what they want tends to result in repeat business.

An analogy might help: If people like more sugar in their food, and adding sugar to it increases sales, then what we ultimately will get is not food, but candy, labeled "Food".

Therefore, even giving paying customers what they not only ask for, but actually do want, might still not be a good idea.

Grocery stores are absolutely chock full of terribly unhealthy products misnamed "food".

Presumably, their competitors either adapted or died. Even if the winds of change are blowing in bad way for society, trying to stand against them may be bad for business.

Perhaps take the tactic of the yuppie organic good section?

Wait a few years, then start a conference dedicated to real work and actually getting things done.

I officially just scored a -40 Broficiency Quotient on the quiz he linked, so I feel sufficiently geeky still to make the following sarcastic remark:

HEY EVERYONE, STOP LIKING THINGS I DON'T LIKE! /s

“Leaf blowers for stamp collectors” great visual!

No fun allowed. Ever.

If you give conference attendees the option to have that much fun, they will take it and go party instead of, you know, networking and discussing the conference topic with their professional peers.

This, to me, is not a successful outcome of a conference.

Because there's absolutely no intersection between having drinks and partying and discussing relevant conference topics.

Some of you need to loosen your britches around here, seriously.

You seem to be making the same point as untog did in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6376678

Therefore, see my reply to untog's comment.

Perhaps you should stop making the same point over and over in different comments..

Well, this technique gave us windows vista [1].

[1] http://xkcd.com/323/

You meant Windows Millenium (ME)

I HATE FUN TOO LETS NOT HAVE FUN TOGETHER.

These conferences are not supposed to be maximizing the "fun" factor for the attendees. The conferences are, first and foremost supposed to be useful for collaboration and networking in their stated field.

A lot of people network through socialising and, yes, drinking.

Yes. But if the socialising and drinking activities are not organized to be conducive to networking, then it's a party with no benefit to the goals of the conference.

See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6376546 where I already agreed that “a conference can (and perhaps should) have many elements of a party in it”.

I had fun once. It was awful.

Malibu, Crème de Menthe, Jager, Triple Sec, Vodka & Coke, Kahlua. These seem like cocktails for programmers... earlier in their careers, shall we say.

Agreed; the "JMP" is especially unfitting (and unappetizing).

I'm pretty sure I had tired of such things before I was out of my teens. I can also remember turning up at (Secondary) school with a green tongue as I had consumed rather a lot of Crème de Menthe at a party the evening before - ghastly stuff.

Students with random access to alcohol. You drink what you have ... though it's still a poor excuse to mix vodka with cola.

Vodka + diet coke was pretty much only alcoholic beverage I was drinking when on ketogenic diet. It's quite good, actually...

Any reason you chose vodka over rum?

It's simpler to get in bars (though they tend to run out of diet coke fast), and... well, I never bothered to check the carbohydrate contents of rum; just decided to go with the simplest option ;).

Understandable. When I was doing Keto everything and everyone suggested rum and Diet Coke was the best when out drinking.

I'm actually about to go back to keto, as last time I bailed out halfway to my target. I might try rum this time, thanks :).

They make Sprite Zero now, I'd do that instead.

I need to get back on... I'm a big boy (6'2 300lbs) and I was doing great on it but eventually stopped because of an impromptu "Want to be in my wedding in a month?" invitation that required me to stop losing the weight because otherwise I'd be swimming in my tuxedo at the wedding.. Never got back on. I miss it.

Ethanol is the primary source of calories in both rum and vodka. They are, for dieting purposes, equivalent.

Ethanol is actually second only to fat in caloric density, though thankfully you don't really consume massive amounts of it without knowing it. ;)

ethanol has a high caloric content but almost none of those calories can be absorbed by the body. It is a fundamental flaw in the way food calories are measured. To measure the calories of food you put the food in a sealed container under a vial of water and burn it, the food has 1 calorie for ever degree centigrade it made a liter of water rise. ethanol obviously burns extremely well so by this test it has high caloric content but that does not mean your body can convert ethanol to fat, sugar, ATP or anything else useful to the body. The vast majority of it is processed by the liver and expelled by the kidneys

Calories is not the metric important for me here (every alcoholic beverage has plenty of it, so standard caution applies), it's carbohydrate count - too much and you're out of ketosis for good.

I never quite acquired a taste for more refined liquors. These are right up my alley.

My wife is a bourbon/whiskey snob. She mocks me when I make a jack and coke.

She should :)

(a) your wife is awesome, (b) I too am a whiskey snob, (c) there's really nothing wrong with Jack Daniels or for that matter with jack & coke, (d) there is something wrong with mixing vodka and cola and calling it a cocktail.

there are many things wrong with Jack Daniels.

But those wrong things are somewhat diluted by the Coke, quite literally. Not worth wasting good whiskey on a Whiskey and Coke.

But the good thing about it, unlike its superior rival George Dickel, is that JD is not owned by Diageo. It's a pity that I have to boycott Dickel because of that, but I'm not giving my money to those assholes.

EDIT: and yeah, rayiner's wife is awesome :)

That's a lot of brands to boycott, including, sadly Guiness.

Unfortunately yes. But there is lots of good stuff outside the Diageo umbrella :)

Well, the cocktail in question is called 'Epic Fail'.

when doing this, does she also refer to you as "my wife"?

A good cocktail showcases and highlights the component spirit(s) to make a more interesting and (hopefully) tasty drink.

Unfortunately when cocktails are based on nasty components, they often end up trying to disguise the spirit with sugary mixers like fruit juice or coke.

If you're interested in cocktails and don't mind diving in the deep end, try an authentic Sazerac:

http://www.esquire.com/drinks/sazerac-drink-recipe

Remember: the point is to highlight the primary spirit, so start with something good: http://www.anchordistilling.com/spirits/old-potrero-straight...

Felten's book ( http://www.amazon.com/Hows-Your-Drink-Cocktails-Drinking/dp/... ) has a good overview of all the classic cocktails, and in general is an interesting read. I have yet to try the Sazerac, having 3 bottles of rye at home... Shame :(

Also, the "original" pre-rye Sazerac was done with Cognac, gotta try that at some point as well.

Or maybe even some Sazerac Rye in its namesake cocktail :)

http://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/brands/sazerac-rye

NB: Old Potrero is cask strength and pretty "hot."

Gotta chime in here because I do this professionally.

This is why people don't like cocktails. These are seriously terrible. I wouldn't serve any of these, ever.

I don't want to be overly negative here, but no number of pull requests will fix this. Rather than try to salvage these, I will offer take out anyone who's interested and introduce you to a bunch of the top folks in the food and drink biz. There's really not a friendlier group of people, and learning about wine and spirits is a lot of fun.

I disagree that "this" is why people don't like cocktails. That's a very broad statement, encompassing thousands of (existing) drinks that are great. I think it's more of a taste preference and has little to do with bad prior experiences. If said people are basing the totality of drinking cocktails based on their first go at it, there may be a bigger problem there.

Over here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374955) you say, "I never quite acquired a taste for more refined liquors."

Why not? I'm afraid you haven't had anything good. There's no reason you shouldn't like "more refined" (good) products if you like the bad ones. Also, it's not just the quality of the product. For instance, Jaegermeister is a quality product, but the drink he makes with it is arbitrary. Would you like a tomato, peanut butter, and mustard sandwich?

The offer stands. Take me up. I'll buy you a drink.

Open-face peanut butter and tomato happens to be an excellent sand which, BTW :) requires a good tomato. Sprinkle with a tiny bit of garlic salt or chili powder.

I have a very insensitive palette, which is probably to blame for apathy when it comes to variation. Most coffees, liquors, other drinks, tobacco products, and even foods taste almost exactly the same to me, despite consuming different brands/combinations/recipes of all of them for years, whereas my peers have developed discernible tastes when it comes to such things.

Or it could be as you say and I've never really indulged in what could be considered truly superior products. Sometimes I'm not really sure.

I will indeed. I'm curious if it's just me.

Honest question....are you a tobacco user? If so, that explains it. I am, and also have an insensitive pallette. Never notice it except in those "quitting" passes.

> I don't want to be overly negative here, but no number of pull requests will fix this.

You mean ... we have to fork?

It's missing the BASIC:

    10 tequila
    20 GOTO 10

I feel as if bourbon is a better drink for coding while tequila is a better drink for going out all night and puking before bed

I'd suggest trying a better tequila.

There's no such thing. Tequila is nasty poor man's liquor, only made palatable to yuppy palates by insisting you can only enjoy it by inbibing in a taste bud numbing cocktail of salt and lime juice before you drink it.

That said, I enjoy a good (=nasty) tequila every now and then. Just like I enjoy a good glass of paint thinner aka Moutai on occasion: give the ol' taste buds a little workout.

Is that supposed to be a poor attempt at satire or something?

No, I'm not talking about Cuervo gold, foo'... Now, get off my lawn!

next time you feel like tequila get a shot of don julio 1942; it might just change your mind about what tequila can be. And hey, if it doesn't it's still a damn good tequila.

That goto is considered harmful.

Oh man, RIP me. Cheers boys!

A beginning programmer will think that's an infinite loop, but anyone familiar with tequila will know better.

It'll run until the stack overflows.

But gotos don't add a layer to the... oh. Oh, I see.

So, PHP is the one where they mix all of the ingredients in your liquor cabinet together and top it with a raw egg, right?

I was thinking that the recipe for PHP would be: 1. Drink entire bottle of tequila 2. Vomit into a dirty glass 3. Drop glass

As a PHP developer who likes tequila. I'm down for this.

drink(tequila) or die();

Come on, man.

    drink($tequila) or die();

So close...

    drink($tequila) or die("Vomiting...");

I will more say the PHP version will be nothing fancy, have a beer kick back and relax while others try to impress with new ways of solving an old problem :)

That wouldn't work as there is SOME logic and reasoning to that. We'd have to come up with something else.

The PHP lists its ingredients with completely inconsistent units, some of which haven't existed for hundreds of years. Most ingredients are listed at least twice, some times indicating name brands, sometimes with generic names, and occasionally referring to specific off-brand varieties. The instructions themselves are easy to follow, include appropriate metric conversions, and tell you to throw away about half of the initial ingredients.

The C#, it turns out, is the same as a Java but with a finer stock of liqueurs. The recipe for C#.NET however, is proprietary and no one can quite explain why one in a thousand makes you ill, or why the bottom of the glass seems to fall out sometimes.

In which way C# and .NET is proprietary?

WCF, WindowsForms, EntityFramework are proprietary. But nobody in sane mind will use them.

I am proficient in all three of those technologies.

I was about to object... but yeah, you're pretty much spot-on. I still say that, except for the omgwtfbbq databinding stuff, Winforms was a fine technology for its time. It's just that its time is past and MS doesn't ever update anything, they just abandon-and-replace with something horribly baroque.

EF is my definition for "so close, and yet so far".

I have no idea what the heck happened with WCF though. Seriously, I can't even find the kernel of good ideas that got corrupted in the process of implementation like I can with those other two.

WebAPI and SignalR (backed by Microsoft) replace WCF for most of unreliable stuff. The rest should be using message queues anyways.

WinForms - in fact is OK. It's just old.

WCF and EF - "oh noes". My eyes are bleeding with just one look at this.

Microsoft can make something simple and brilliant as TPL, but on other side we have such overengineered behemots as WCF and EF.

"...explain why one in a thousand makes you ill, or why the bottom of the glass seems to fall out sometimes..."

Sounds more like current JavaScript and HTML/CSS. Unless you "drink" it using special kind of "glassware" like JQuery and BootStrap.

And what's the Java? An Old Fashioned, made with coffee bitters.

Another cocktail is the "Tschunk", which is hugely popular with hackers here in Germany. See the recipe here: https://entropia.de/Tschunk (the main ingredient, a carbonated, caffeinated soda called "Club-Mate" is difficult to source outside of Germany, though).

Apparently not. Our resident native-German-speaker managed to fill our fridge with it in Chicago.

Yech.

Infidel!

Available in Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia with not that much trouble. Though mostly in bars/pubs and.. hackerspaces :)

Hackerspaces around the world tend to figure out how to get it. It's hard to get in Poland, and yet in Hackerspace Kraków we have a crate ;).

Yeah, we somehow had a ton of it at Hive76 in Philadelphia. It might still be there, if someone needs some. Nobody drinks it.

In ours tastes are divided - half of the people love it, another half hates it. And yet I bought a full crate last Thursday and there were only two bottles left by Friday.

It must be the unofficial beverage of hackerspaces -- the one in Canberra, Australia has an old glass-door refrigerator case full of it, and the empties line the back wall: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wil5oncle7us/8764800032/in/pool...

It is.

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/The_Club_Mate_Pattern

You can buy a case of it from the 2600! http://store.2600.com/clubmate.html It tends to sell out quickly though.

Awesome idea. My friends at ActiveState had a release party and went to the bar to celebrate over drinks. One of the guys ordered a round of shots for the group "12 shots please, half Tequila and half Jager" The waitress took him literally and brought 12 shots, all with half Tequila and half Jager.

The release included a GUI version of an existing command line tool because a certain customer wrote in saying "F&*k this DOS prompt BS, I want a GUI".

We now call this awful shot "The DOS Prompt"

I don't see a campari one, :D but here goes my daily cocktail:

1. half glass of Campari bitter. 2. Ice 3. orange 4. a shot of water-soda

(never use tonic or white wine, if you like it a bit more alcoholic then use some cava or champagne [sprinkledwine])

Campari and soda is a fantastic drink. Refreshing and not super high in alcohol, yet bitter instead of cloying and sweet. For future reference, since it looks like you are not a native English speaker, the phrase for non-Champagne champagne is "sparkling wine."

Thanks for the tip! the correct word in italian is "prosecco"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecco

Ruby, Python and Perl... So nothing strong at the moment?

C is pure vodka, hard, powerful and without any flavor.

Assembly is pure ethanol.

Still thinking how would VHDL be... thinking about raw sugar cane to make your own alcohol from there.

I think VHDL would be like a chemistry lab. You could create ethanol pretty easily. You could also make a lot of other things.

Each to their own, these all look undrinkable though!

Change some ingredients and A/B test them.

With initial recipes like these, you'd quickly reach very low local maxima.

git history serves as a Tabu list, and different people's tastes will serve as a stochastic breakout. If lots of people have a go it will de-facto be a particle swarm tabu. Even with a single starting point there's a good chance of global optimisation.

It's on GitHub, fork it and send a pull request. Always send pull requests sober.

Yeah, when I saw jmp I thought it looked impressive, but just reading the ingredients made me want to Ralph.

Nice... tomorrow will get "Python" for start I think the result will be "Memory Leak" and party will be over after "Epic Fail" :)

Lacks a non-alcoholic option, for programmers who need to do programming.

Are you referencing: http://xkcd.com/323/ ?

Hex on the beach.

Sorry.

Long Island ICT

C breeze

melt equal parts syntactic sugar and water...

S-exp variant also in stores

In a big-endian glass.

This is nonsense. I'll have a Jameson on the rocks, please.

rocks optional

Jameson, aka the whisk(e)y for people who don't like whisk(e)y.

It's smooth, soft and pleasant, nothing like the nasty, grating stuff they produce in Scotland. A favorite of mine, for sure.

Scotland has 100 distilleries in 5 major whiskey-producing regions with their own traditions. There is really no such thing as "scotch", they are all different, so this generalization is wrong.

I suppose 'brainfuck' would be a Absinthe mix of some sort

Absinthe + pear juice is great. Also absinthe + energy drink of some sorts. Though somewhat good absinthe is necessary for it as fake/cheap brands are really horrible.

Can you recommend some good ones, preferably ones that are available in the US? I've heard good things about North Shore's Sirène...

I can't, sorry. I'm in Europe and drink mostly local ones. But you might check this out for hints http://www.reddit.com/r/absinthe

Now I want a bartending robot with it's own drink-mixing DSL.

It appears there's a bartending robot in the works:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/partyrobotics/bartendro-...

Now you just need an R2 to deliver them. ;)

Nice ideas, though I think java is sorely missed here,

Rum & Coke: simple, gets the job done, and packed with regret.

I was hoping for coffee based :P

Java's drink is surely the Bloody Mary, the world's most complex cocktail. A blunt and simple central ingredient (cheap vodka/Java the language) surrounded by an ornate spice rack's worth of ingredients and preparation.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2010/12/theres_got_to_be_...

Ha! Do you really want a java cocktail?

OK. Here is your java cocktail: 1. 50 mg of sand. Yes, you will never drink it, but it will gloriously creak on your teeth 2. Water. Put it as much as you can. If you're really into "hard staff" - use sea water. 3. Alcohol. In fact - you don't need this. But if you want - mix something. Anyway you don't have a lot of space to put a good portion of booze.

While not themed after languages and such, I keep a gist of my favorite cocktails I either want to try or the recipes me and my friends have come to enjoy: https://gist.github.com/dylan/6093669

My engineering pals think me using a gist to store recipes is funny... :P

http://forkthecookbook.com/

Very nice.

I am turning 33, give me a Memory Leak please!

https://github.com/the-teacher/cocktails_for_programmers/blo...

Hmmm...

First we had the 'how to shoot yourself in the foot in X language' jokes.

Now we'll have jokes about what cocktails different programming languages would be. Not bad, I might compile them in a page some day.

I'm surprised there isn't a "java" with some sort of coffee +liqueur.

Lua Kahlua.

Hmmm... so I the recipe for Befunge would be: 1. Pour a pint of beer 2. Pour a shot glass of vodka 3. Drop the glass into the beer 4. Drink quickly 5. Start flowing in all directions

Reminds me that webtender is still going strong.

The younguns at work were terrified of its layout and design when I showed it to them but it's a solid site.

C# would need to be citrus-y (C and sharp). It would go very quickly but might take a while to build.

Why not specify the amounts in centiliters? All the amounts end with 0 anyway.

Any ideas for Lisp drink?

Whiskey. Neat.

The bartender hands you the bottles and the shaker, do it yourself.

Use lots of nested martini shakers for parentheses?

Shirley Temple.

I really like Long Island Iced Tea, what about other hackers?

So according to logic, assembler is pure alcohol?

Minimal frills I would think

And then there's machine code - industrial alcohol

Did you mean Methanol which is like alcohol but toxic.

More useful is Mojito Cocktails https://github.com/yahoo/mojito

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