Do you remember the hacker emblem? http://catb.org/hacker-emblem/
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Great developer tattoo, even better explanation.
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Re: Great developer tattoo, even better explanation.
#52(function(){var k=[];return function j(){k.push(i);j();}})()(); Love it, but what that code says to me is Stack Overflow. But I'll reinterpret it to mean Mind = Blown by all the random cool things you learn in this field (infinite data structures in Haskell being the most recent one for me). PS - I couldn't help running it in the Node REPL: > i = 1; 1 > (function(){var k=[];return function j(){k.push(i);j();}})()();…
Perhaps he's hoping Skynet will mistakenly eval() its inputs when scanning him into the human work camps.
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#53One point i'd like to make. I think its great that people get tattoos that mean something to them, and i'd totally get a code tattoo too, but i dont believe tattoos HAVE to mean something to get them. All the tattoos i have dont have any meaning behind them other than "just because i like it" and while a deep emotional connection with a tattoo is great, dont talk yourself out of getting a tattoo if theres no meaning…
Same here! I uhm'd and ah'd for ages before I finally got mine. It's a pretty standard tribal design on my left upper arm, and I still really like the way it looks :) No special meaning, though people ask if it has a meaning whenever they first see it.
Re: Great developer tattoo, even better explanation.
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaking for myself, if I saw a COBOL tattoo, I'd most likely think "Duuuude, old school... respect!" ;) Not so sure about JS though - is it perhaps more likely to seem like Visual Basic in 40 years? As a JS monkey myself, though, I like it* :) As for alternatives... would a Lisp tattoo be better? * Apart from the i coming out of nowhere, which keeps setting off my this-is-a-bug alarm ;)
mov ax,13h int 10h
yeah, nice one.
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#55This will be fun once the language's popularity wanes. Imagine an old guy on his walker with an "IDENTIFICATION DIVISION." tattoo… As for this particular item, I'm not a big tattoo fan in general and have a particular disdain for writing – it's usually pretty bad typography. While this isn't all-caps badly kerned blackletter, it kinda looks like someone invented an automated prison tattoo maker. Sorry. PS: I know, be…
The durability of tattoo's subject does not matter in the slightest if a tattoo is done to record a moment in one's life rather than to impress other boys in geriatric care. And that's exactly what this guy did. One thing I would agree with you on though - what an odd typography choice. Why not a monospaced typeface?! :)
"what an odd typography choice. Why not a monospaced typeface?!"
Because my arm was not long enough - Arial Narrow was the only clear one I could find that would fit : )
Re: Great developer tattoo, even better explanation.
#56And in 2060 developers will probably think something like what would think today, if shown a tattoo of "ALTER X TO PROCEED TO Y" in the flaccid forearm of a 70-year-old. Still, much, much better than those at Hanzi Smatter [ http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/ ].
Interestingly enough Hanzi Smatter focuses on mistakes with Kanji or Chinese, but I guarantee that those french translations of meals are equally hilarious.
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#57Nice, and a very cool explanation. But I find it a bit ironic that a snipit of code meant to be a form of self-identification has the output: "i is not defined".
http://jsconsole.com/?%28function%28%29{var%20k%3D[]%3Bretur...
Re: Great developer tattoo, even better explanation.
#58(function(){var k=[];return function j(){k.push(i);j();}})()(); Love it, but what that code says to me is Stack Overflow. But I'll reinterpret it to mean Mind = Blown by all the random cool things you learn in this field (infinite data structures in Haskell being the most recent one for me). PS - I couldn't help running it in the Node REPL: > i = 1; 1 > (function(){var k=[];return function j(){k.push(i);j();}})()();…
This bit really bothered me. I would have suggested some ooda-loop construct, instead. That said, it's not my tattoo.
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#59> ();}})()();
And people complain that Lisp is hard to read )))
Re: Great developer tattoo, even better explanation.
#60I'll be interested to hear comments from fellow hackers. Reactions from colleagues have been... varied. Jim Sangwine
In order to make any great art, there's a risk of spectacular failure. There is no reliable way of achieving greatness. If it's reliable, the best it can be is merely good.
This is exactly why I'm not getting any permanent things done to my body. I wouldn't want something merely good, I would want greatness. In order to go for greatness, I would have to risk spending the rest of my life with some spectacular failure. That's a risk that I'm not willing to take, but I appreciate it when other people do.
Your tattoo? Pretty damn great.