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Great developer tattoo, even better explanation.

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Re: Great developer tattoo, even better explanation.

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Post by Periodic »

gojomo wrote: post #52
SkyMarshal wrote: post #23

(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.

Our best defense: code injection attacks.

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Post by Periodic »

mhd wrote: post #34
wslh wrote: post #13

Do you remember the hacker emblem? http://catb.org/hacker-emblem/

Get a lambda. Geeks will nod approvingly and you can tell the jocks that it's from 300.

My plan is Lambda on the left shoulder, Pi on the right. Lambda for programming and right-brain, Pi for math and left-brain. I feel that they are simple, elegant, and have a lot of meaning. My only worry is that they won't age well, but I have no knowledge of tattoos.

I made a deal with myself and my wife that I will get both tattoos once I have made a living working for myself (either a successful startup exit or my consulting taking off).

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Post by daeken »

mhd wrote: post #34
wslh wrote: post #13

Do you remember the hacker emblem? http://catb.org/hacker-emblem/

Get a lambda. Geeks will nod approvingly and you can tell the jocks that it's from 300.

I did this a couple years back -- thus far my only tattoo. It sums up a large portion of my life in one beautiful symbol. http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg129/scaled.php?tn=0&server=...

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Post by danielhfrank »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #32

It's kind of sad, I thought the y combinator was beautiful until it became a brand name.

upvote x10. The y combinator is exactly the sort of thing I would have been happy to have written on my body, had it not turned into an investor buzzword

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Post by icebraining »

pointyhat wrote: post #19
JimSangwine wrote: post #2

I'll be interested to hear comments from fellow hackers. Reactions from colleagues have been... varied. Jim Sangwine

Pretty cool. I was going to get a GUID tattooed to my arm :)

An URL could be nice too. Or a QRCode ;)

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Post by NationalHQ »

mhd wrote: post #33

This 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…

if you're not a fan of tattoos why should you pipe in at all with your certain-to-be-biased, most-likely-negative opinion?

Do you understand that you must appreciate the art/science of thing in order to have an opinion worth sharing? If not, perhaps you have thoughts on the aesthetics of synchronized swimwear you would be willing to disclose, just in case?

Why is the first response on these boards almost always the naysayer's? Why are nerds so uppity about shit that don't concern them?

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Post by mhd »

ataggart wrote: post #38
mhd wrote: post #33

This 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…

Thus if one is to tattoo code, it should be in lisp.

APL is cheaper.

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Post by pointyhat »

icebraining wrote: post #65
pointyhat wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty cool. I was going to get a GUID tattooed to my arm :)

An URL could be nice too. Or a QRCode ;)

I thought about that but they might expire :(

A GUID is guaranteed unique forever pretty much :)

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