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The Adventures of Hackerdom, an Epic Saga in 5 Routines (towersofzeyron.com)
2 points by nomadhideout on Oct 23, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



is this the real life

is it just PHP

caught in the UNIX

no escape from the grasp of C

Open your eyes: Rust's how to avoid UB

I'm just a programmer

I need no sympathy

Because I write in Lisp, write in Scheme, write in Haskell and in C

Any way you choose a lang, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Init

just killed a proc

put my keyboard in my hand, kill -9, now it's dead

Init, bootup had just begun, but now I've gone and thrown it all away

Init... Ooh oohooh ooh

Didn't mean to make you segfault

if the system's not back again this time tomorrow.

fresh install, fresh install

as if nothing really matters

...And this is the point where I run out of ideas. Go read GLS (aka The Great Quux), he's better at this than me.


this is pretty neat, I like the kill -9 line, highly original

GLS is a genius, check out his version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven haha

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audienc...

Once before a console dreary, while I programmed, weak and weary, Over many a curious program which did TECO's buffer fill, -- While I pondered, nearly sleeping, suddenly there came a feeping, As of something gently beeping, beeping with my console's bell. "'Tis my DDT," I muttered, "feeping on my console's bell: Once it feeped, and now is still."


Ah, yes. "The HACTRN" has long outlasted the piece of software it was actually about. The line about RMS is about as funny now as it was then, and the basic themes have aged pretty well, even if the literal lines haven't.




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