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>>How do jokes at the expense of this person, who has an obvious drug addiction problem, help...
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>Jos, I understand where you're coming from, but the honest truth is that the person is nearly flouting/boasting his addiction, claiming it gives him creative super powers. Anyone coming up here posting about hiring prostitutes (and then defending it) deserves some scorn.

Extreme sleep deprivation has resulted in some the most brilliant pieces of code that I'd ever written (though after a good night's sleep, I couldn't make heads nor tails of it afterwards).