← Back to context Comment by mpeg 10 years ago The title reminds me of "the 500 mile email"http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html 20 comments mpeg Reply K-Wall 10 years ago This is one story I always enjoy when it is brought up. ChristianBundy 10 years ago Me too. Are there any others you could recommend? dandelany 10 years ago Some of my favorite hacker folklore:Always Mount a Scratch Monkey http://edp.org/monkey.htmThe Magic Switch https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.htmlQuake3's Fast InvSqrt() https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/The Battle Chess Duck http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ (#5)and of course, The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.htmledit to add: Ford and the $10,000 chalk mark (Ctrl+F Ford) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinm... 6 replies → kirrent 10 years ago Real programmers don't use PASCAL never fails to crack me up. A bit closer to the grandparent comment is the famous story of Mel.http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html 1 reply → chx 10 years ago Here's the car allergic to vanilla ice cream. http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/smann/IceCream/humor.html ilyanep 10 years ago Some more:The disappearing Polish S https://medium.engineering/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-...System Shock "A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance" https://medium.com/designing-medium/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596... 1 reply → zer00eyz 10 years ago This one too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire 1 reply → teddyh 10 years ago “COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES”http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Techdoc/Lore/rumor.ne...“Computer Stupidities”http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ 1 reply → ersoft 10 years ago http://www.jakepoz.com/debugging-behind-the-iron-curtain/ n72 10 years ago Great story. Also, never knew about units.
K-Wall 10 years ago This is one story I always enjoy when it is brought up. ChristianBundy 10 years ago Me too. Are there any others you could recommend? dandelany 10 years ago Some of my favorite hacker folklore:Always Mount a Scratch Monkey http://edp.org/monkey.htmThe Magic Switch https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.htmlQuake3's Fast InvSqrt() https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/The Battle Chess Duck http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ (#5)and of course, The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.htmledit to add: Ford and the $10,000 chalk mark (Ctrl+F Ford) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinm... 6 replies → kirrent 10 years ago Real programmers don't use PASCAL never fails to crack me up. A bit closer to the grandparent comment is the famous story of Mel.http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html 1 reply → chx 10 years ago Here's the car allergic to vanilla ice cream. http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/smann/IceCream/humor.html ilyanep 10 years ago Some more:The disappearing Polish S https://medium.engineering/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-...System Shock "A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance" https://medium.com/designing-medium/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596... 1 reply → zer00eyz 10 years ago This one too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire 1 reply → teddyh 10 years ago “COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES”http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Techdoc/Lore/rumor.ne...“Computer Stupidities”http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ 1 reply → ersoft 10 years ago http://www.jakepoz.com/debugging-behind-the-iron-curtain/
ChristianBundy 10 years ago Me too. Are there any others you could recommend? dandelany 10 years ago Some of my favorite hacker folklore:Always Mount a Scratch Monkey http://edp.org/monkey.htmThe Magic Switch https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.htmlQuake3's Fast InvSqrt() https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/The Battle Chess Duck http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ (#5)and of course, The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.htmledit to add: Ford and the $10,000 chalk mark (Ctrl+F Ford) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinm... 6 replies → kirrent 10 years ago Real programmers don't use PASCAL never fails to crack me up. A bit closer to the grandparent comment is the famous story of Mel.http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html 1 reply → chx 10 years ago Here's the car allergic to vanilla ice cream. http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/smann/IceCream/humor.html ilyanep 10 years ago Some more:The disappearing Polish S https://medium.engineering/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-...System Shock "A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance" https://medium.com/designing-medium/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596... 1 reply → zer00eyz 10 years ago This one too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire 1 reply → teddyh 10 years ago “COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES”http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Techdoc/Lore/rumor.ne...“Computer Stupidities”http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ 1 reply → ersoft 10 years ago http://www.jakepoz.com/debugging-behind-the-iron-curtain/
dandelany 10 years ago Some of my favorite hacker folklore:Always Mount a Scratch Monkey http://edp.org/monkey.htmThe Magic Switch https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.htmlQuake3's Fast InvSqrt() https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/The Battle Chess Duck http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ (#5)and of course, The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.htmledit to add: Ford and the $10,000 chalk mark (Ctrl+F Ford) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinm... 6 replies →
kirrent 10 years ago Real programmers don't use PASCAL never fails to crack me up. A bit closer to the grandparent comment is the famous story of Mel.http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html 1 reply →
chx 10 years ago Here's the car allergic to vanilla ice cream. http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/smann/IceCream/humor.html
ilyanep 10 years ago Some more:The disappearing Polish S https://medium.engineering/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-...System Shock "A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance" https://medium.com/designing-medium/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596... 1 reply →
teddyh 10 years ago “COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES”http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Techdoc/Lore/rumor.ne...“Computer Stupidities”http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ 1 reply →
This is one story I always enjoy when it is brought up.
Me too. Are there any others you could recommend?
Some of my favorite hacker folklore:
Always Mount a Scratch Monkey http://edp.org/monkey.htm
The Magic Switch https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html
Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/
The Battle Chess Duck http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ (#5)
and of course, The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
edit to add: Ford and the $10,000 chalk mark (Ctrl+F Ford) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinm...
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Real programmers don't use PASCAL never fails to crack me up. A bit closer to the grandparent comment is the famous story of Mel.
http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
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Here's the car allergic to vanilla ice cream. http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/smann/IceCream/humor.html
Some more:
The disappearing Polish S https://medium.engineering/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-...
System Shock "A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance" https://medium.com/designing-medium/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596...
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This one too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire
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“COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES”
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Techdoc/Lore/rumor.ne...
“Computer Stupidities”
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
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http://www.jakepoz.com/debugging-behind-the-iron-curtain/
Great story. Also, never knew about units.