turner (03/11/83)
#N:ucbesvax:1100012:000:1208 ucbesvax!turner Mar 7 21:32:00 1983 One is almost FORCED to supply a description of "intensive hack psychosis": You've almost had a heart attack (or stroke) in response to an announce- ment that the deadline for your project has been moved a week closer, and several new features are in demand, none of which you originally planned for. You're hooked up to a variety of computers, in a room where they never completely turn off the lights. At any hour of the day or night you might run short of life-sustaining sugar, caffeine, or other artificial stimulant. Occasionally you're trundled into an operating room where they fill you with invective designed to suppress extraneous activity, and slice up various parts of your ego. Apparently half of "intensive hack psychosis" is the result of disrupted sleep patterns (forget trying for five hours at night) and the rest is the natural psychic trauma resulting from what you're going through. Sufferers exhibit decreased mental abilities, often appearing to lose contact with reality. The problem almost always goes away as the programmer recovers from a lack of self-esteem. He Who Has Done Unto Others (And Been Done To, For That Matter) -- Michael Turner (ucbvax!esvax:turner)
turner (03/11/83)
#R:ucbesvax:1100012:ucbesvax:1100013:000:132 ucbesvax!turner Mar 7 21:40:00 1983 oops - that should be "ICP" - Intensive Care Psychosis, not ICH! heh, heh...(alway blow SOMEthing, don't I?) Michael Turner