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The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Post by TACD »

fiedzia wrote: post #19
seanhunter wrote: post #5

It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened: Recruiter: Hey there! Do you know what this is? Colleague: Err, … It *looks* like some sort of network protocol Recruiter: No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.

There’s a Tumblr for that: https://www.tumblr.com/moviecode

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Post by ramon156 »

fiedzia wrote: post #19
seanhunter wrote: post #5

It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened: Recruiter: Hey there! Do you know what this is? Colleague: Err, … It *looks* like some sort of network protocol Recruiter: No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.

Render your local file tree, win a free pentagon entry

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Post by sureglymop »

fiedzia wrote: post #19
seanhunter wrote: post #5

It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened: Recruiter: Hey there! Do you know what this is? Colleague: Err, … It *looks* like some sort of network protocol Recruiter: No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.

Do we actually think you couldn't though? Probably unintentionally accurate.

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Post by ikari_pl »

fiedzia wrote: post #19
seanhunter wrote: post #5

It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened: Recruiter: Hey there! Do you know what this is? Colleague: Err, … It *looks* like some sort of network protocol Recruiter: No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.

I felt like a movie hacker when doing literal

SELECT * FROM military_bases

On a public dataset :)

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Post by fiedzia »

sureglymop wrote: post #23
fiedzia wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.

Do we actually think you couldn't though? Probably unintentionally accurate.

I guess there might be Bobby 'insert into EMPLOYEES...' tables somewhere.

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Post by cout »

fiedzia wrote: post #19
seanhunter wrote: post #5

It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened: Recruiter: Hey there! Do you know what this is? Colleague: Err, … It *looks* like some sort of network protocol Recruiter: No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.

Occasionally there are some real treats in those snippets. I remember being floored when Trinity exploited a real ssh v1 bug in Matrix Reloaded.

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Post by sunrunner »

ikari_pl wrote: post #24
fiedzia wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.

I felt like a movie hacker when doing literal SELECT * FROM military_bases On a public dataset :)

I paused the film to catch Lisbeth Salander, brilliant hacker and investigator, doing exactly this kind of complex query.

I guess the brilliant hacking was the bit you don’t see getting access to the super secure database in the first place?

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Post by sunrunner »

fiedzia wrote: post #19
seanhunter wrote: post #5

It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened: Recruiter: Hey there! Do you know what this is? Colleague: Err, … It *looks* like some sort of network protocol Recruiter: No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.

I always liked the code Easter egg in Ex Machina. A scene with Caleb has a Python script visible on screen that, when run, prints:

  ISBN = 9780199226559
This is Murray Shanahan’s Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds, quite relevant to the film.

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Post by mcherm »

Bolwin wrote: post #6
20k wrote: post #2

Its crazy to me how little effort publishers put into the basic parts of their job sometimes. Its even funnier that raymond chen of all people is the one calling this out

Also is this an official Microsoft dev blog? Probably not a good look back at publishing hq

If you don't want to be called out for putting zero effort into the books that you publish, you probably shouldn't put zero effort into the books you publish!

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Post by sscaryterry »

bad_username wrote: post #10
seanhunter wrote: post #5

It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened: Recruiter: Hey there! Do you know what this is? Colleague: Err, … It *looks* like some sort of network protocol Recruiter: No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

I wish was a real HTML tag

This is tongue in cheek, but those who can't do, teach, and those who can teach, recruit.
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