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Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl?

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Re: Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl?

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Post by tejaswiy »

jedberg wrote: post #66
jarin wrote: post #57

I'm doing both, since neither team is my team I'm only half paying attention to it. I also think it's hilarious how so many techies love to brag about not caring about football. I'd have thought that hackers would enjoy the complexity of the game (most of the programmers I know love football, and meeting up for beers on football Sundays is a ritual for us).

People think that sports and programming are mutually exclusive for some reason. As if you can't be a good programmer unless you hate sports. Personally, I like to hack and I hold football season tickets.

My attention span is way too low for something like Football. I love soccer because most of the time, people are actually playing instead of standing around.

Re: Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl?

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Post by jc123 »

Watched a little and spent time debugging why Facebook invites with fb:multi-friend-selector were not working (serverfbml leading to 404). I solved it and Facebook's new https feature, if enabled by the user, is the cause :( Filed bug: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15066

Re: Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl?

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Post by jff »

tejaswiy wrote: post #131
jedberg wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People think that sports and programming are mutually exclusive for some reason. As if you can't be a good programmer unless you hate sports. Personally, I like to hack and I hold football season tickets.

My attention span is way too low for something like Football. I love soccer because most of the time, people are actually playing instead of standing around.

I find that in soccer they're usually rolling around on the ground peeking out from behind their hands.

Also, maybe if anybody ever scored in soccer it would be a little more interesting. At least hockey has better fights and the players don't fall down so much.

Re: Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl?

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Post by jff »

Oh that superbowl thing? Yeah I just found out they played one last February, I guess that's cool, does it happen every year? I wouldn't know, I'm not one of those proletariat mouth-breathing football fans, it's not even real football anyway. Instead I've been hacking a RESTful Ruby on Rails application that combines social media, blogging, and Markov chaining, all in 200 lines.

Re: Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl?

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Post by barrydahlberg »

paylesworth wrote: post #106
NZ_Matt wrote: post #73

Oh America are playing their version of rugby today? I did wonder why my twitter timeline suddenly filled up with tweets about commercials :P

Yes, sadly our version of "rugby" features lots of standing around, pads, and helmet-induced concussions. Are you gearing up for the Rugby World cup in your backyard this year?

It is actually having quite an impact in Auckland. I don't care too much for the rugby, but I welcome any improvements to our transport system etc.

http://www.auckland2011.com/Getting-Auckland-ready.aspx

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