Saturday, July 07, 2007

code as seen by Hollywood

Thanks to P.F. for forwarding this article on Hollywood inaccuracies when portraying code. Two excerpts:

4. Code is not three dimensional.
Remember in "hackers" when the gibson is depicted as a three dimensional city that the hackers must navigate through? Bullshit! We may use a dash of color in our shell to make things a bit clearer, but last I checked my terminal app doesn't require OpenGL. I'm working here, bitches - I'm not playing quake.


10. Most code is not inherently cross platform.
Remember in Independence Day when whatshisface-math-guy writes a virus that works on both his apple laptop AND an alien mothership? Bullshit!


LOL.

Incidentally, I noticed that sentences are cooler when you append "bitches". For example, "I'm working here" comes off a little wimpy. "I'm working here, bitches." is great.

The truth shall set you free, bitches.
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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous7/07/2007 6:06 PM

    "I'm working here" comes off a little wimpy.

    Say it in a Brooklyn accent.

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  2. Anonymous7/07/2007 6:59 PM

    Say it in a Brooklyn accent, bitches!

    :)

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  3. Anonymous7/07/2007 7:09 PM

    Say it in a Brooklyn accent, bitches, BITCHES!

    Isn't recursion great?

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  4. N7/07/2007 7:14 PM

    re: recursion. LOL!

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  5. Anonymous7/07/2007 7:48 PM

    Say it in an F.O.B.
    Chinese Accent

    Britches!!!

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  6. Anonymous7/08/2007 1:06 AM

    The movie Swordfish taught me that being a hacker makes women want to blow you all day long. Are you saying that this is inaccurate?!

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  7. Anonymous7/08/2007 2:03 AM

    Fat women will blow anybody.

    Even if they work at Google.

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  8. Anonymous7/08/2007 6:11 PM

    Women only feel that way about Perl programmers, anon. Fluid semantics slathered over those firm, billowing muffins of syntax allow people to swerve and jack-knife from one programming paradigm to the next without ever taking their foot off the accelerator; a nice analogue to the thought processes of the fairer sex, bitches!

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  9. Anonymous7/08/2007 9:09 PM

    Otis Spunkmeyer, synonymous with billowing since 1977...

    :)

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  10. Unknown7/13/2007 4:04 PM

    Ha, ha, funny post. Catching up on my blog reading now that I am back from Beijing.

    Yeah, Independence Day with the cross platform Mac-Alien technology - that was just ridiculous.

    Also, how about in the original Jurassic Park when they are trying to shut down the computer system and there is a 3D interface, and the girl says, "Hey, I know how to use this - this is unix." (or something like that).

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  11. Philipp Lenssen7/19/2007 3:08 PM

    I've jumped into my cybersuit just to comment here just now. Oh no, a three-dimensional Captcha is attacking...

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