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Re: Quine Relay

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Post by loosetypes »

Projects with no veil of utility are great!

I would love to read the author’s book, The World of Obfuscated, Esoteric, Artistic Programming.

http://gihyo.jp/book/2015/978-4-7741-7643-7

So I was sad to see it only available in Japanese. But then, I was happy to have found something written, potentially for the joy of it, not necessarily on the main stage to maximize internet reach.

Re: Quine Relay

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Post by montalbano »

Note this is written by Yusuke Endoh, one of the top obfuscated-code competition winners in the world.

Given that Christmas is coming up, and it never seems to get traction here on HN, I'll take the opportunity to link to another of his quines here. It's one of my favourite pieces of code ever, a christmas-themed animation which doubles as a quine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eaf9iLKxg

Edit: I have to re-iterate, he is truly a genius. It's worth spending time going through his other videos too.

Re: Quine Relay

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Post by fouronnes3 »

This is absolutely mind boggling to me. I've written a normal quine before and that was a fun challenge, but this is just so incredible I have absolutely no idea how it's even remotely possible.

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Post by spekcular »

loosetypes wrote: post #2

Projects with no veil of utility are great! I would love to read the author’s book, The World of Obfuscated, Esoteric, Artistic Programming. http://gihyo.jp/book/2015/978-4-7741-7643-7 So I was sad to see it only available in Japanese. But then, I was happy to have found something written, potentially for the joy of it, not necessarily on the main stage to maximize internet reach.

How hard would it be to crowdfund a translation effort? In principle this could be done through Kickstarter, right?

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Post by noneeeed »

jgilias wrote: post #6

This is... Humbling.

Ikr? I saw him present this at a conference, you could almost hear the audience collectively recalibrating their self-image in light of this new data point.
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