[Haifux] Something fun and geeky to read
Hello geeks, wherever you are, Dima (CCed), of the ASAT in the CS faculty, suggested hanging printouts of interesting, fun, folklore bits in prominent places (coffee corner, bathroom doors), in order to increase the geekiness of the students at the expense of the profession-seeking mentality. Feel free to throw in suggestions: Some suggestions to start with: The First Linux Announcement from Linus Torvalds http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2010/04/the-first-linux-announcement-from-linus-torvalds/ Bill Gates Letter to Hobbyists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_Letter_to_Hobbyists.jpg The Girl Who Proved P = NP http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/the-girl-who-proved-p-np.html -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
Re: [Haifux] Something fun and geeky to read
Nice idea! Two off the top of my head: The Story of Mel: http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html Some AI Koans: http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html Cheers, Muli ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
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Write in C: http://www.lyrics007.com/Anonymous%20Lyrics/Write%20In%20C%20Lyrics.html What about that story about the guy who used the cyclic memory to make the program overflow and write on itself as a part of the regular run of the program? Can anybody locate it? On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda m...@cs.technion.ac.ilwrote: Nice idea! Two off the top of my head: The Story of Mel: http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html Some AI Koans: http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html Cheers, Muli -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
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Mel the programmer? http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.comwrote: Write in C: http://www.lyrics007.com/Anonymous%20Lyrics/Write%20In%20C%20Lyrics.html What about that story about the guy who used the cyclic memory to make the program overflow and write on itself as a part of the regular run of the program? Can anybody locate it? On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda m...@cs.technion.ac.ilwrote: Nice idea! Two off the top of my head: The Story of Mel: http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html Some AI Koans: http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html Cheers, Muli -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
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On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:12:01PM +0300, boazg wrote: also, the black perl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl http://www.ioccc.org/1990/westley.c - Charlie and Charlotte Other entried from the IOCCC could be useful. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|| friend ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
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Sudo make me sandwich. http://xkcd.com/149/ On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Baruch Even bar...@ev-en.org wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.comwrote: Hello geeks, wherever you are, Dima (CCed), of the ASAT in the CS faculty, suggested hanging printouts of interesting, fun, folklore bits in prominent places (coffee corner, bathroom doors), in order to increase the geekiness of the students at the expense of the profession-seeking mentality. Feel free to throw in suggestions: There is the Tao of Programming http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html Baruch ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orr Dunkelman, orr.dunkel...@gmail.com ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
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young whippersnappers with your modern nerd-comics! in my day we had only text and we liked it that way. now get off my lawn! On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Orr Dunkelman orr.dunkel...@gmail.comwrote: Sudo make me sandwich. http://xkcd.com/149/ On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Baruch Even bar...@ev-en.org wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello geeks, wherever you are, Dima (CCed), of the ASAT in the CS faculty, suggested hanging printouts of interesting, fun, folklore bits in prominent places (coffee corner, bathroom doors), in order to increase the geekiness of the students at the expense of the profession-seeking mentality. Feel free to throw in suggestions: There is the Tao of Programming http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html Baruch ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orr Dunkelman, orr.dunkel...@gmail.com ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
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ASCII art of that comic would be ok with his majesty? On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:49 PM, boazg boaz.ge...@gmail.com wrote: young whippersnappers with your modern nerd-comics! in my day we had only text and we liked it that way. now get off my lawn! On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Orr Dunkelman orr.dunkel...@gmail.comwrote: Sudo make me sandwich. http://xkcd.com/149/ On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Baruch Even bar...@ev-en.org wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello geeks, wherever you are, Dima (CCed), of the ASAT in the CS faculty, suggested hanging printouts of interesting, fun, folklore bits in prominent places (coffee corner, bathroom doors), in order to increase the geekiness of the students at the expense of the profession-seeking mentality. Feel free to throw in suggestions: There is the Tao of Programming http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html Baruch ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orr Dunkelman, orr.dunkel...@gmail.com ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- Orr Dunkelman, orr.dunkel...@gmail.com ___ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
