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Ballmer Peak
Concept in computer programming
Ballmer Peak
The Ballmer Peak is a humorous concept invented by Randall Munroe in the xkcd webcomic, joking that a programmer who is appropriately intoxicated (between 0.129-0.138% BAC) will achieve a high level of programming productivity; the peak occurs at 0.1337%, a reference to leet. The concept is loosely tied to former Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, and is likely a play on Balmer series of hydrogen spectral lines named for the scientist Johann Balmer. A San Francisco organization, Originate, has organized a "Ballmer Peak-A-Thon", an open bar event where people were given "5 hours to find the elusive Ballmer peak, and build the best worst business possible." There is no scientific basis for the Ballmer Peak, though researchers have studied adjacent topics, such as the impact of inebriation on problem solving. One study identified worse programming performance with increasing blood alcohol content, but joked in a footnote that as "the prescribed BAC in this experiment did not reach the Ballmer...
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