All off topic discussions go here. Everything from the funny thing your cat did to your favorite tv shows. Non-programming computer questions are ok too.
NickJohnson
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by NickJohnson » Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:07 am
I got a 4/10. I guess it just shows that serial killers look like normal people, as do language designers - that doesn't seem at all surprising.
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by Brynet-Inc » Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:14 pm
"Sorry, you need Flash and JavaScript to play this daft quiz"
I humbly request that gravaera unplug his computer.
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meh
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by meh » Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:42 pm
I got a 7/10. I was mostly guessing though.
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by suthers » Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:45 pm
*reappears after long absence*
Got 10/10 in the quiz... I thought the differences where fairly obvious.
One could also use how old the photos where as an indicator, some where obviously taken in the precomputing era...
Plus a computer scientist would never use a beany
So the second is out...
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by gravaera » Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:19 pm
^^^ Wow. You must be a genius: I took it twice. Got 4 the 1st time, and 7 the second.
@Brynet-Inc: I humbly suggest that you try Google Chrome. It's lightweight, not too flashy, and pretty fast, too.
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by Brynet-Inc » Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:29 pm
gravaera wrote: @Brynet-Inc: I humbly suggest that you try Google Chrome. It's lightweight, not too flashy, and pretty fast, too.
It hasn't been ported to BSD, and a different browser will not magically make Flash websites accessible.
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by Troy Martin » Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:14 pm
<offtopic rant removed>
I got 7/10 on the quiz. Pretty hard, actually.
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Solar wrote: It keeps stunning me how friendly we - as a community - are towards people who start programming "their first OS" who don't even have a solid understanding of pointers, their compiler, or how a OS is structured.
I wish I could add more tex
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by qw » Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:42 am
I got 6/10. "Not bad, but it might be best to avoid a career in either law enforcement or I.T. recruitment." #3 is a trick question!
jal
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by jal » Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:38 am
7/10, by random guessing (at least, I didn't know any of them).
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by xvedejas » Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:16 pm
Where is hans reiser? heh.
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by NickJohnson » Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:49 pm
xvedejas wrote: Where is hans reiser? heh.
That would be good trick question. He's not a language designer though. Or a serial killer.
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by Love4Boobies » Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:49 pm
8/10 but could've done 9/10. I picked one at random cause I couldn't decide.
malevole wrote: Pretty good; it seems you know your JavaBeans from your fava beans, your slashers from your slashdotters.
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by Asper » Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:56 am
I just remembered about
Troy Martin after
this screenshot and looking for his last post came upon this topic.
10/10 "You'd spot Hannibal Lector in seconds at an Open Source conference. Your liver's safe."
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by DavidCooper » Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:47 pm
The beard thing's easy to account for - I always have to shave several inches of hair off my face after a programming session.