• (disco)
    PaulaBean:
    UNLISTED

    Awe, now you're working?

  • (disco)

    If PHP wasn't a dealbreaker, well...

    Do you like encryption? I built our encryption layer.

    Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!

  • (disco)

    Wait a sec...

    This application was a blog-style platform.

    Is this a story of the birthspawning of WordPress?

  • (disco)

    Jorge recovered his hand, wiped in on his pants

    I guess @Remy was feeling...wiped out.

  • (disco)

    Luke’s indentation was so chaotic it could double as a cryptographically secure random number generator.

    :rofl:

    Too bad his actual "cryptography" wasn't nearly as good.

  • (disco)

    with a 366MHz processor (with MMX!) and 64GB of RAM

    I think there's an architecture dispariter somewhere...

    had barely written a single line of the code- 90% of what Jorge found had been copied-and-pasted from tutorials or other sites.

    Yeah! You gotta Attribute All The Things!

  • (disco) in reply to Tsaukpaetra
    Tsaukpaetra:
    > with a 366MHz processor (with MMX!) and 64GB of RAM

    I think there's an architecture dispariter somewhere...

    I think somebody has forgotten that at one time RAM was measured in MB, not GB. (And yes, before that it was in KB, and before that in bytes, and before that in bits, but we're not going there today).

  • (disco) in reply to Lawrence

    I actually liked Freelancer. If only the ending hadn't sucked ass.

    Edit: Fuck it, not meant as a reply.

  • (disco)

    "Luke’s indentation was so chaotic it could double as a cryptographically secure random number generator."

    On one of my more memorable and exotic gigs, I was (unaccountable) senior developer in a team of, er, two. My colleague frequently needed me to help debug her code.

    "Tell you what," was frequently my advice, "if you neatened it up a bit, you'd have better idea of the process flow." After seeing her staring blankly at the screen for a few seconds, I'd reach over and actually do the editing so as to implement consistent indentations. This would invariably result in a conversation which was a variant on: "There, you see? Unbalanced braces. You might want to start using an IDE which indicates these things for you. Tell you what, how about getting Notepad ++, it's nice and simple ... no? You're happy to carry on with Notepad? Okay, let me know if you still have problems ..."

  • (disco) in reply to LB_
    LB_:
    Jorge recovered his hand, wiped in on his pants

    I guess @Remy was feeling...wiped out.

    I just wet your pants laughing at that.

  • (disco)

    There's freelancer and then there's boil-lancer. I think know which one was featured in this article.

  • (disco)

    More seriously, all good programmers are plagiarist hacks. The best ones call it "Code reuse".

  • (disco) in reply to RFoxmich

    Good artists copy, great artists steal. – Pablo Picasso

  • (disco) in reply to ChrisH
    ChrisH:
    I actually liked Freelancer. If only the ending hadn't sucked ass.

    As soon as I saw the picture, I started missing the game all over again. I thought it was a fantastic game. I wish I could find another game like it.

  • (disco)

    Now I'm confused. Looks like he left it where it was (so he didn't steal it) and the pithy quote doesn't say anything about defacing.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    He's taking credit for the quote.

  • (disco) in reply to DCRoss
    DCRoss:
    He's taking stealing credit for the quote.

    FTFY

  • (disco)

    Yes, but you broke it with your inconsiderate wording so I fixed it.

  • (disco)

    There are artistes in the real world who assemble pieces of garbage into artistic, sometimes functional, collages. Luke was not one of those.

  • (disco) in reply to Fox
    Fox:
    If PHP wasn't a dealbreaker, well...

    Do you like encryption? I built our encryption layer.

    Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!

    I don't think danger is the word you're looking for. None of the synonyms listed at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikisaurus:danger does really fit. ITYM doom.

    Quite:
    You're happy to carry on with Notepad? Okay, let me know if you still have problems ...

    To reduce overload of your input streams, I'd recommend, "Okay, let me know if there's an hour when you don't have problems ..."

    90% of what Jorge found had been copied-and-pasted from tutorials or other sites.

    That only proves the quality of Luke's code - it is quoted on sooo many web pages!

    His cutting edge encryption algorithm was the most secure solution since ROT13: encode_base64.

    The code designed by the Great Luke himself, I suppose?

    CoyneTheDup:
    There are artistes in the real world who assemble pieces of garbage into artistic, sometimes functional, collages. Luke was not one of those.

    Contrariwise: the apparently random indentation are a true piece of contemporary art!

  • (disco) in reply to PWolff
    PWolff:
    I don't think danger is the word you're looking for. None of the synonyms listed at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikisaurus:danger does really fit. ITYM doom.

    Quite:

    I think you're missing a reference to a really mediocre TV show, Lost in Space, and this...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwOJlOI1nU

  • (disco)

    Hmm, can make this a drinking game. Take a drink every time you come across the word 'great' in the article. See if anyone's still conscious by the time you reach the end.

  • (disco) in reply to redwizard

    Great idea!

  • (disco) in reply to DCRoss
    DCRoss:
    He's taking credit for the quote.

    http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/012/132/thatsthejoke.jpg

  • (disco) in reply to CoyneTheDup
    CoyneTheDup:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwOJlOI1nU

    Well, "Danger, Art Barnes!"

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

    Okay, "Danger, Lennier!"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtF_PCAsN2U

    "Danger-- No, no danger. It's good what you did there. It's very good."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETfzfy0jy74

  • (disco) in reply to Lawrence

    Btw, consider it was time near Dot-COM burst, 366GHz CPU and 64MB of RAM was a still decent config for a server normal traffic.

    Not to mention the company uses PHP but they know enough to use CVS... most of the website at that time was still using "zip the whole folder" as the default way of "source control".

    Copying code from other is bad, having register_globals is worse, but the general environment is, I have to say, better than most job around that time. Dot-COM days created huge demand of website creation works so there was man shortage everywhere, thus allowing lots of under-skilled "coders" to create shitty codebase for sites.

  • (disco) in reply to cheong
    cheong:
    Not to mention the company uses PHP but they know enough to use CVS
    No, the company didn't use CVS, the new guy used CVS. The company was using "Let's edit the live code on the server while we talk through the issue with the client over the phone".
  • (disco) in reply to Tsaukpaetra

    had barely written a single line of the code- 90% of what Jorge found had been copied-and-pasted from tutorials or other sites.

    Nononono.... Luke was such a great artist that 90% of his work appeared as models in tutorials and copy-pasted into other sites.

  • (disco) in reply to cheong
    cheong:
    Not to mention the company uses PHP but they know enough to use CVS...

    Around the dotcom bust, CVS was not bad practice. “Fortunately”, Luke knew nothing about it.

  • (disco) in reply to Tsaukpaetra
    Tsaukpaetra:
    Yeah! You gotta Attribute All The Things!

    I am actually guilty of this, to an extent. Years ago (at a job that had no source control), I created a custom Attribute class that just took a string parameter as a way of putting your name above any type or method that you created, as a way of being able to track who did what. Nobody else ever really used it, so my name ended up peppered throughout the code.

    I did, finally, convince them to at least buy an old copy of Visual Source Safe (it was better than nothing).

    CoyneTheDup:
    I think you're missing a reference to a really mediocre TV show, Lost in Space

    Mediocre?! Well, ok... I guess my standards were probably lower when I was 8.

  • (disco) in reply to Dragnslcr

    Makes me want to go dig out an old copy and install it on my laptop....

  • (disco) in reply to tenshino
    tenshino:
    Mediocre?! Well, ok... I guess my standards were probably lower when I was 8.

    QFT

  • (disco) in reply to tenshino
    tenshino:
    I guess my standards were probably lower when I was 8.

    Did you watch that show during its original run? If so, that would make us about the same age. :belt_onion:

    For those of you (mercifully) unfamiliar with the show, the spaceship is traveling to Alpha Centauri, a journey that takes sufficiently long that the crew is in suspended animation. The ship goes off-course due to a stowaway/saboteur, and the crew is awakened, spending 83 episodes trying to get back on course.

    I recall one episode in which the plot involves the ship going through a strange galaxy in one night while the crew is asleep. In a ship that required suspended animation just to get to the nearest star in our own galaxy.

    Like Discourse, calling it "mediocre" is a great compliment, one it doesn't deserve.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek

    I saw the movie as a child. It was sufficiently filled with robots, blinky lights, corny jokes, and creepy monsters to entertain me. But, like @tenshino, my standards were probably lower when I was 8, so I'm guessing it was only slightly better than the original show.

  • (disco) in reply to HardwareGeek
    HardwareGeek:
    For those of you (mercifully) unfamiliar with the show, the spaceship is traveling to Alpha Centauri, a journey that takes sufficiently long that the crew is in suspended animation. The ship goes off-course due to a stowaway/saboteur, and the crew is awakened, spending 83 episodes trying to get back on course.

    I recall one episode in which the plot involves the ship going through a strange galaxy in one night while the crew is asleep. In a ship that required suspended animation just to get to the nearest star in our own galaxy.

    Still better than Voyager.

  • Liam (unregistered)

    I'm sorry but I have to say I've seen Base 64 "encryption" before on my home router configuration (saved_backup_encrypted.cfg). Even better is that after I saw that and read some of the code it runs, I found references to a dozen different products from all of the major telecoms. Then I found out that the config files are visible on WAN port 4567, I had a lot of 'fun' looking into that.

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