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Ballmer Peak

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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 , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and is likely a play on Balmer series of hydrogen spectra…

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