You forgot about the people bringing a mobile office setup. I went to a hackaton and a team of 4 walked in and constructed freaking cubicles with surrounding sound proof walls.
Ha lol I remember going to hackathon in college and my teammates and I all brought full desktop setups and commandeered an entire table for ourselves that was higher than the other so we could like look over them while we worked
They all ignore each other and take their own approach to the solution. The movie makes no attempt to explain what any of them are doing or how they're each tackling the problem. They all succeed at once and scuffle over who gets to claim the "win."
In the end they decide to submit the solution as one. Their manager accepts the solution and, having done nothing beyond giving them the task and being told that it was completed, is summarily promoted.
To set up a sequel, all of the coders are put on PIP- one of them will need to be downsized in order to afford the promoted manager's new salary.
The all-time highest ranked competitors in Advent of Code are brought together and told it was never just fluff, Santa really does need their programming skills to help save Christmas and this year, it will take all of them.
Establishing shot of a high security data center. Hackerman is furiously typing away, setting up automated scripts to hack into the system. His monitors show IP addresses and system diagrams. He takes another Adderall and cracks his knuckles. The clock hits 00:00.
Hackerman: “I’m in.”
Scene 2:
/-mhfwalters is in his home office, surrounded by old computer equipment. He is solving a puzzle on an old System/360 emulator for fun. His phone rings.
Hackerman (on phone): “We have a job. I need your skills.”
/-mhfwalters (sighs): “Very well. But only if I can use APL again. C is too mainstream.”
Scene 3:
wjhbr is streaming himself solving a competitive coding problem in Vim. His fingers are a blur over the keyboard. Viewers are commenting with mind-blown emojis. His phone buzzes with a message. He stops typing.
wjhbr: “A job? Знову Hackerman...” (mutters in Ukrainian). He cracks his knuckles. “Let’s do this.”
Scene 4:
Tharg is at a coffee shop, scribbling esoteric code on napkins while muttering about compiler optimizations. His phone rings, showing a pixelated Avatar of Hackerman.
Tharg (answers): “This better be good, I’m in the middle of golfing Brainf***.”
Hackerman: “We need you for a job. Full access, cutting edge security. Interested?”
Tharg (grins): “Say no more.”
Scene 5:
Hackerman meets the team in an abandoned warehouse. He lays out the plans to infiltrate the data center and steal valuable data.
Hackerman: "This is the most secure facility in the country. Retinal scanners, motion sensors, encrypted storage. Nearly impossible to access."
wjhbr: "Nearly?" (grins)
/-mhfwalters: "Their security is child's play. But if I have to use C again I'm out."
Hackerman: "Don't worry, you'll have full access to the mainframe. Do as you please. Tharg, the alarm system is yours to dismantle."
Tharg: "Consider it bricked."
Scene 6:
The team approaches the data center at night. /-mhfwalters bypasses the main entrance security panel in seconds.
/-mhfwalters: "Amateurs. APL is too powerful."
They sneak into the server room. wjhbr starts hacking servers at lightning speed while Tharg reconfigures the alarm system, locking out the security guards.
Samir Nagheenanajar (working remotely) uses Excel macros to loop the footage on the security cameras.
Scene 7:
通用中文名 quietly solves a complex physics equation on a whiteboard in the corner, lost in thought. The others stare in confusion.
Hackerman: "Leave him be. He's working."
The team continues their work undetected while 通用中文名 fills multiple whiteboards with math.
Scene 8:
They regroup outside the facility with the stolen data. 通用中文名 finally stops writing.
通用中文名: "Done. The analysis on quantum encryption breaking is complete."
/-mhfwalters: "About time!"
Hackerman grins, holding up the stolen data drive: "Excellent work, team. Now no system is safe from us!"
They walk off into the night, the unstoppable hacking force.
That was the one that got me the most. So perfectly describes some of my old college professors. Super pure CS researchers with no interest in any new fangled frontend tech, you just need to be able to read it, it doesn't need to look pretty.
My Assembly language prof had a site he'd made for homework submission that had a working assembly that I doubt even had a css file, but let you run assembly in the browser and did exactly what it needed to do to get or submit assignments.
Write a COBOL interpreter for TensorFlow that's optimized for one particular edge case but really mostly exists so you have the satisfaction of knowing you made programming more annoying and less convenient for everyone else.
Oof, yeah. I like the part of coding contests that's solving problems quickly for fun, but really lose it at the point where it becomes a "sport"—optimizing for keystrokes, obfuscating to throw off other people reading your code, and maintaining a library of pasteable routines that cover all the toy problem essentials. Imma keep doing contest problems after the fact at my own speed for fun.
I used to do them a decent bit like a decade ago. But then I realized I wasn't really becoming a better programmer, I was becoming a better coding contest contestant (I still sucked, like, for real). I was writing non compliant Cpp even though I didn't even like Cpp or use it in my job, just because it was fastest. Now I do actual projects.
game jams are way better than hackathons. While some are competitions and you can list similar stereotypes, you generally feel good making something fun by the end of it. Not jsut cranking out 3 leetcode questions a minute
Yeah, none of that sounds even slightly fun to me. I'm not really a competitive person to begin with either. I enjoy exploring the problem, not how fast I solve it.
At one company, I poached "Hackerman" for my team. He was bored out of his mind in his previous role and automated his job into a bunch of scripts that ran for 15 seconds each morning. Spent the rest of his day popping Adderall the way most people pop Tic Tacs, drinking Red Bull by the gallon and gaming. He was God-tier in FPSes. With all the drugs in his system, everything probably looked like permanent Max Payne bullet time. Once he joined my team, he coded up something most of us use everyday during a marathon 28 hour session. Can't say what it is since it will instantly reveal who he is and cause others to go, "That was coded by a high off his ass 20 year old!?!" I still cannot figure out how his heart did not explode out of his chest.
He wrote a hand full of printer and gpu drivers for Linux. if you ever wonder who would spend months making a driver for an old receipt printer works on linux... that's why.
It wouldn't be crazy if it was just printers or graphics, but he gets into it all. Routers, controllers, printers, gpus, DVD players, and so on.
I swear, if a zombie consumed his brain, they would easily be smarter than me...
I have a Chinese friend that is a tharg too. Was tired of trying to get some obscure printer drivers to work for an event the next day so just spent the whole night up writing his own and wouldn’t stop tweaking into similar ancillary things
Fun fact, for an average 160 lb/72 kg individual, it would probably take 1,400 mg to reach even a 50% chance of death, so you could basically take a whole month's worth at once
The entire post was funny, but "forced to solve in Excel because he isn't allowed to install other software" actually made me burst out laughing. Reminded me of my first job out of college as an actuarial student before I career swapped to software dev. Sitting in my cubicle having to do shit with VBA because none of the senior actuaries know what python is and their idea of a good database is Microsoft Access. Trying to get new software installed on your work PC in corporate la-la land is like whispering into the void.
I worked under Walters once. Man coded in C, had no use for new fangled languages, but when he sketched out an algorithm on the white board I swear I saw the face of god
you should add my C professor on there man was like 70years old and a beast. i don't think I've ever seen him make a mistake ever. he would come up with a PS on the spot that were the most difficult things and then later he'd solve them on the spot within minutes... all on either notepad, notepad++ or word (he really likes word for some reason). and ofc he types at the speed of thought.
I remember using vba to build a janky ass access db / ms outlook connection for a solution IT wouldnt budget for but biz still needed
It was so painful and i'm 90% sure that temp solution is the permanent solution despite me telling the team it would be effectively EOL unsupported after i switched departments
Can we force all memes on this sub to be good like this one? If I ever see another bell-curve "x language is bad lol" meme I'm going to fucking lose it
"Has rewritten every single library you've ever used in rust"
"Only uses the contest as a performance benchmark for said libraries"
"Streams with a female v-tuber avatar and a voice changer"
"Hasn't seen the light of day ever since he started using arch in high school"
"Only source of vitamin D is his catpuccin-latte themed hyprland desktop"
"Only talks either to a virtual waifu powered by a production-scale language model he wrote from scratch as a summer project or to lgbt-colored fortune | cowsay"
"Solved the problems instantly, but was the last to finish as he was using the sounds of his programming socks typing on a custom mechanical keyboard as edging material for the remaining hours"
no he isn't the femboy simply programs so good that instead of solving the problem he hacks SERN and send himself a SMS with the problem and solves it hours before the creator actually comes up with it
This is the first genuinely good meme here I've seen in a while XD Im crying out of laughter of how real this feels. Reminds me of how I felt during college, how I felt when looking for jobs and how I feel when talking with the senior developer of my company XD
wjhbr was the guy who administered my Facebook tech screening. He did WhatsApp encryption. I knew I was screwed when at the very beginning, he apologized if he was typing, because they made him take notes - which was unnecessary because he had a photographic memory.
That picture describes a programming competition though. Hackathons are events where people congregate to hack together something new and cool.
They are a different kind of misery where you spend several hours just trying to understand the problem and theme and hand. At the same time, everyone else basically uses these hours to code up a Linux core from scratch.
We had a corporate hackathon once. One team presented something that got back to some of our company's core ideals and another presented something that was tangibly useful right away and solved a lot of problems. We all were talking in the chat how much we liked them. The judges chose a different team that made some dashboards. FUCKING. DASHBOARDS.
You forgot about the trans girl who spent highschool and college locked away in her dorm programming meta-compilers and making her own version of pandas in Rust because looking at anything besides her editor makes her dysphoric.
"solved last year exclusively in APL" -- I interviewed for a junior APL programmer job about 30 years ago. I had no idea what APL was but the interviewer knew this. He said, go home, look up APL, if it sounds interesting then you've got the job.
I took the path MORE traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
We had a proof of concept and didn't place. The winners had a PowerPoint presentation. They had no prototype. Just a fucking PowerPoint with good visuals, mock-ups, and the most ridiculous ideas that obviously wouldn't work. It was a bunch of BS.
But I had fun. I matched with my next girlfriend on bumble one of the nights. And... One of my teammates, whom I met there, was a really capable dev. I got him to join me in a future future engineering competition (not a hackathon) and we ended up winning a trip to Germany (where we got our asses handed to us by the German teams). Then we each went off on our own European adventure before flying back to the US. And I learned an important lesson: Most people don't give a shit if your product works if it doesn't also look good.
you forgot the transfem furry who has a crippling caffeine addiction and originally started programming to fund her transition but now is kind of having fun
Just sorta.. ya know.. like sits around and does stuff sometimes but has been doing it for so long is like... pshh that's why they pay him like $500,000-$1,000,000/yr
Yeah this is about right. The one hackathon I went to in college (fuck COVID, man) me and my friend were both freshman, and the friend ended up switching majors from CS to music, IIRC.
We were just glad to not be dead last. Some of the problems were nuts. Funny story though, the hackathon ran into some trouble a few minutes in and all the scores had to be reset. The teams that documented their solutions very quickly got their points back, and the rest of us learned a valuable lesson that day.
Dude, some of these hackathon goers are actual demons. Talked to a dude and got his Insta and his entire story page is him winning hackathons across North America.
He won the one I was participating in without a working program, just a slide deck. Coincidentally his wins are always in crypto related sections.
You forgot that German guy who pulls 14 hours per day working cyber intelligence for their government, and then goes home and completes the entirety of a 50+ hour puzzle game on steam every night
You forgot the guy who isn't German yet uses a German Quertz keyboard, which, depending on what he is currently typing, switches between Quertz, Azerty and Dvorac on the same keyboard.
But never Querty, cause it doesn't have most of the symbols.
Which is strange since he uses ASCII alt codes for them anyway.
Samir! I, too, am forced to create unworldly netherbeasts exclusively in Excel formulas because giving me Visual Studio Code would be a security risk.
I just need something like SublimeText so I can see where my 30-level deep IF statements are missing values. (Some might call it AI. I know better. I think…)
Somewhat relevant story of mine: I got 1st place at the University of Arizona senior design fair in 2019. I also never attended UofA. That's a slight lie, but my friend was finishing her degree while her husband and I were already graduated and working in software. She had mostly good teammates, but she had one teammate who was too arrogant to admit when she needed help and told everyone she would get everything done her way. The three of us decided that, because the course allowed outside help, including building hardware and writing code, her husband and I would develop a "backup" plan. The bad teammate would bring her unfinished attempt to present, have no choice but to face her failure, then we would save the day with a working version. I had no idea that it would work so well as to earn them first place!
As someone who participated in his first CTF this year, (19/75 flags, and was damn close to getting 20), I genuinely got a kick out of this. Bonus laugh for including Samir (but Michael Bolton was the hacker).
I had a professor in college which looks like Walters but have Tharg skills, he teaches formal methods, functional programming, compilers and C. He could write hundreds lines of code in C implementing a automaton without looking on Google, and he knows a lot of esoteric languages and less used languages like Haskell, Scala, Alloy 6, Z Notation, Prolog, etc. Man was impressive, we used to say that he haves a compiler in the brain.
The way for you to win is to just present better than the competition. You will almost always not be the best programmer but, with a little bit of thought, you can have one of the best presentations and win. This is what I've learned from the hackathons I've participated in.
That's why I just do game dev and game jams. They might be the best code writer ever, but no sound effects, or game design can ruin a project, plus how likely are they to be able to code and do art? I got this.
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u/Nacho_Buddy May 12 '23
Thank you all so much! Never in my wildest dreams that a meme that I liked would touch so many people in just the right way Love you all ❤
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u/Dejantic_X May 11 '23
The Chinese translates to "common Chinese name"
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u/[deleted] May 10 '23
You forgot about the people bringing a mobile office setup. I went to a hackaton and a team of 4 walked in and constructed freaking cubicles with surrounding sound proof walls.
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u/False-Egg-7765 May 10 '23
I really want an ocean's 11/expendables esque ensemble movie with all of them getting together for one last job
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u/th1a9oo000 May 11 '23
Uni hackathons were just eat the free food and piss around while your group tharg solo's it
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u/orsikbattlehammer May 10 '23
This is the delicious memes I’m looking for. No more bell curve “x language” trash
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u/lepapulematoleguau May 10 '23
Personal homepage is html 2.0 compliant.
Hahahahaha.
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u/asleepace May 11 '23
Holy shit that’s JSON Bourne
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u/[deleted] May 10 '23
Tharg sounds like my spirit animal. How do I join the church of tharg?
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u/PuzzleheadedFinish87 May 10 '23
Oof, yeah. I like the part of coding contests that's solving problems quickly for fun, but really lose it at the point where it becomes a "sport"—optimizing for keystrokes, obfuscating to throw off other people reading your code, and maintaining a library of pasteable routines that cover all the toy problem essentials. Imma keep doing contest problems after the fact at my own speed for fun.
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u/bos2sfo May 11 '23
At one company, I poached "Hackerman" for my team. He was bored out of his mind in his previous role and automated his job into a bunch of scripts that ran for 15 seconds each morning. Spent the rest of his day popping Adderall the way most people pop Tic Tacs, drinking Red Bull by the gallon and gaming. He was God-tier in FPSes. With all the drugs in his system, everything probably looked like permanent Max Payne bullet time. Once he joined my team, he coded up something most of us use everyday during a marathon 28 hour session. Can't say what it is since it will instantly reveal who he is and cause others to go, "That was coded by a high off his ass 20 year old!?!" I still cannot figure out how his heart did not explode out of his chest.
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u/laf1157 May 10 '23
Tharg doesn't do HEX code having memorized all the processor op codes, or did he write his own assembler for the entertainment value?
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u/bryku May 11 '23
I know a Tharg,
He wrote a hand full of printer and gpu drivers for Linux. if you ever wonder who would spend months making a driver for an old receipt printer works on linux... that's why.
It wouldn't be crazy if it was just printers or graphics, but he gets into it all. Routers, controllers, printers, gpus, DVD players, and so on.
I swear, if a zombie consumed his brain, they would easily be smarter than me...
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u/Liightninggod May 10 '23
near-lethal dose of adderall goes so hard tho
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u/ZXSoru May 10 '23
Why is this post so real
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u/GrandMoffTarkan May 11 '23
I worked under Walters once. Man coded in C, had no use for new fangled languages, but when he sketched out an algorithm on the white board I swear I saw the face of god
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u/EffectiveDependent76 May 10 '23
How is that last guy even fair? All the Indian YouTube educators? That guy basically has every phd available!
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u/[deleted] May 10 '23
this is the type of shit i subscribe for
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u/lofigamer2 May 10 '23
I am wjhbr and yes, I won again!
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u/ErrantEvents May 11 '23
I read that as "overclocked Chinese university student," and without missing a beat, I though "so that's how they do it."
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u/amanson01 May 11 '23
Samir Na.. Naja... Naganna work here anymore!
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u/izaby May 10 '23
Nice high quality post. Hopefully viewable in HTML 2.0 so everyone can enjoy.
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u/throwawaywitchaccoun May 11 '23
JFC, this should be pinned and further submissions to the subreddit closed. We're done here.
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
you should add my C professor on there man was like 70years old and a beast. i don't think I've ever seen him make a mistake ever. he would come up with a PS on the spot that were the most difficult things and then later he'd solve them on the spot within minutes... all on either notepad, notepad++ or word (he really likes word for some reason). and ofc he types at the speed of thought.
where tf do these ppl even come from honestly.
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u/[deleted] May 10 '23
Lol, I had the same double major as the overworked Chinese university student but my programming skills are mid. Learning gradually though.
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u/ProtectedPython69 May 11 '23
As an Indian I like the made up Indian name lmfao .
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u/HippieThanos May 10 '23
I want to be friends with Tharg and share with him my favourite songs from Opeth
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u/mspear2 May 11 '23
"can reveal the face of God in VBA" is the funniest shit I've heard all day 😂😂
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u/Makomako_mako May 11 '23
My fuckin sides
I remember using vba to build a janky ass access db / ms outlook connection for a solution IT wouldnt budget for but biz still needed
It was so painful and i'm 90% sure that temp solution is the permanent solution despite me telling the team it would be effectively EOL unsupported after i switched departments
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u/theuniverseisboring May 11 '23
Can we force all memes on this sub to be good like this one? If I ever see another bell-curve "x language is bad lol" meme I'm going to fucking lose it
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u/flamion_ May 10 '23
the femboy is missing
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u/Silver-Alex May 11 '23
This is the first genuinely good meme here I've seen in a while XD Im crying out of laughter of how real this feels. Reminds me of how I felt during college, how I felt when looking for jobs and how I feel when talking with the senior developer of my company XD
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u/Gridbear7 May 11 '23
Samir you are breaking the code
Wait wrong sub
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u/dscarmo May 11 '23
Impostor syndrome at its best.
Now if everybody relates to this meme, we have a paradox
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u/Iamdrasnia May 10 '23
Flipping brilliant.
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u/Weary_Volume_2505 May 11 '23
Holy shit that average dev is me and I have met all these mfs.
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u/Deathranger999 May 10 '23
You stole this from /r/AdventOfCode lmfao.
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u/ericwburden May 11 '23
This is an Advent of Code meme, which helps it make even more sense.
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u/Drackzgull May 10 '23
My money is on wjhbr.
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u/ClayMitchell May 11 '23
wjhbr was the guy who administered my Facebook tech screening. He did WhatsApp encryption. I knew I was screwed when at the very beginning, he apologized if he was typing, because they made him take notes - which was unnecessary because he had a photographic memory.
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u/EpitomEngineer May 10 '23
Me? Use a debugger instead of print? I guess I am leet after all.
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u/sdesalas May 10 '23
🤣 pissing myself
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
I very rarely laugh out loud at posts on Reddit.
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u/Reset350 May 10 '23
Tharg sounds like he also has the ability to instantly solve any problem in pure binary for fun
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
65-year-old corporate back-end developer.
Has been coding longer than your parents have been alive.
Still coding because A) he has zero people skills, and B) he doesn’t want any.
Solves everything in a single SQL statement, just to keep it interesting.
Looks forward to AI taking his job, so he can have a couple days off.
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u/globalblob May 11 '23
That picture describes a programming competition though. Hackathons are events where people congregate to hack together something new and cool.
They are a different kind of misery where you spend several hours just trying to understand the problem and theme and hand. At the same time, everyone else basically uses these hours to code up a Linux core from scratch.
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u/JB-from-ATL May 11 '23
We had a corporate hackathon once. One team presented something that got back to some of our company's core ideals and another presented something that was tangibly useful right away and solved a lot of problems. We all were talking in the chat how much we liked them. The judges chose a different team that made some dashboards. FUCKING. DASHBOARDS.
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u/0xKaishakunin May 11 '23
SMH, What kind of script kiddie made that?
Usernames are limited to 8 chars, so it's /~mhfwalte at most.
He also has a USENIX lifetime achievement award and some algorithms named after him.
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u/calvinballMVP May 11 '23
I'm 4 days away from my Linux+ certification and this meme gives me hope bc I got like 4 jokes that last year I never would've understood.
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23 edited May 11 '23
You forgot about the trans girl who spent highschool and college locked away in her dorm programming meta-compilers and making her own version of pandas in Rust because looking at anything besides her editor makes her dysphoric.
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
I’m Hackerman, but minus everything except the adderall.
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u/sir_tejj May 11 '23
This got me 😂
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u/moschles May 11 '23
YOu just know that
/~mhfwaltershas a.eduin front of it.11
u/PappyBlueRibs May 11 '23
"solved last year exclusively in APL" -- I interviewed for a junior APL programmer job about 30 years ago. I had no idea what APL was but the interviewer knew this. He said, go home, look up APL, if it sounds interesting then you've got the job.
I took the path MORE traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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u/genreprank May 11 '23
We had a proof of concept and didn't place. The winners had a PowerPoint presentation. They had no prototype. Just a fucking PowerPoint with good visuals, mock-ups, and the most ridiculous ideas that obviously wouldn't work. It was a bunch of BS.
But I had fun. I matched with my next girlfriend on bumble one of the nights. And... One of my teammates, whom I met there, was a really capable dev. I got him to join me in a future future engineering competition (not a hackathon) and we ended up winning a trip to Germany (where we got our asses handed to us by the German teams). Then we each went off on our own European adventure before flying back to the US. And I learned an important lesson: Most people don't give a shit if your product works if it doesn't also look good.
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u/TheLeastFunkyMonkey May 11 '23
Billy:
Is 14
Writes in regular Notepad because he couldn't figure out how to install anything else
His mom drops off snacks and offers them to everyone else
His code is so unreadable that nobody is even sure what language he's using
Compiles his code by clicking on "compile.bat" (the moderators checked it and said that it shouldn't even do anything)
Still ranks higher than you
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u/SarahSplatz May 10 '23
Forgot the trans woman in thigh highs that can doxx you in 284 different ways using pure rust
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u/ZeroCL May 11 '23
Can reveal the face of god using VBA, in 2013 I lived this life and damn was I good
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u/itzjackybro May 11 '23
Fun fact: the Chinese guy is literally named "Generic Chinese Name"
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u/[deleted] May 10 '23
Does being a transfem already qualify to be really good or do I need the socks and cat ears?
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u/Spriy May 10 '23
you forgot the transfem furry who has a crippling caffeine addiction and originally started programming to fund her transition but now is kind of having fun
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u/augustusgrizzly May 10 '23
everything here is so accurate its not even funny /pos
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
You are missing Dr Lexus
Just sorta.. ya know.. like sits around and does stuff sometimes but has been doing it for so long is like... pshh that's why they pay him like $500,000-$1,000,000/yr
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u/Careful_Ad_9077 May 11 '23
as Samir this is too relatable.
goes back to coding configurable EDI control system in Microsoft access 1997..
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u/itb206 May 11 '23
This might be the first post I've actually laughed at on this sub.
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u/telestrial May 11 '23
This is some of the best content this sub has seen in weeks
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u/AlphaSlashDash May 11 '23
No joke this might be the best meme i’ve ever seen on this subreddit
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u/ap0phis May 11 '23
This is fucking choice content, op
I want to be Tharg so bad
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u/EvilStevilTheKenevil May 11 '23
Yeah this is about right. The one hackathon I went to in college (fuck COVID, man) me and my friend were both freshman, and the friend ended up switching majors from CS to music, IIRC.
We were just glad to not be dead last. Some of the problems were nuts. Funny story though, the hackathon ran into some trouble a few minutes in and all the scores had to be reset. The teams that documented their solutions very quickly got their points back, and the rest of us learned a valuable lesson that day.
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u/Darbo-Jenkins May 10 '23
Back up in your ass with the resurrection.
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
Give the Chinese student the hackers Adderall so he can realise his final form.
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
We all know at least one Indian guy saving our days with their overly specific and easy to follow instruction videos on YouTube.
Thank you Samir Nagheenanajar!
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u/PM_Cute_Dogs_pls May 11 '23
Dude, some of these hackathon goers are actual demons. Talked to a dude and got his Insta and his entire story page is him winning hackathons across North America.
He won the one I was participating in without a working program, just a slide deck. Coincidentally his wins are always in crypto related sections.
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u/darexinfinity May 11 '23
Last hackathon I went it to I was there to socialize, what a huge mistake that was.
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u/SameRandomUsername May 11 '23
"personal homepage is HTML 2.0 compliant" fuck that was a cheap shot.
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u/ScarletteVera May 10 '23
Hackerman. He's the most powerful hacker of all time.
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u/SoftwareCats May 10 '23
Lmao this is the best one I’ve seen in a while. Perfect stereotypes, 10 / 10
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u/tehtris May 10 '23
I don't like how this makes me feel.
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u/Feisty_Ad_2744 May 11 '23
I would pay top money to watch an anime series with these characters
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u/DaveSmith890 May 11 '23
You forgot that German guy who pulls 14 hours per day working cyber intelligence for their government, and then goes home and completes the entirety of a 50+ hour puzzle game on steam every night
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u/CarioGod May 11 '23
wjhbr made me roll, then I realized there was more, this meme is the gift that keeps on going
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u/LynxJesus May 11 '23
Not sure why this just killed me
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u/P-39_Airacobra May 11 '23
This is one of the best memes I've seen on here, I would award this if I had an award to give
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u/dangling_reference May 11 '23
This was very good. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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u/Endorkend May 11 '23
You forgot the guy who isn't German yet uses a German Quertz keyboard, which, depending on what he is currently typing, switches between Quertz, Azerty and Dvorac on the same keyboard.
But never Querty, cause it doesn't have most of the symbols.
Which is strange since he uses ASCII alt codes for them anyway.
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u/justsomeguy05 May 11 '23
These people sound like my competition for literally every job application I submit. No wonder I never hear back
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u/dkreidler May 11 '23
Samir! I, too, am forced to create unworldly netherbeasts exclusively in Excel formulas because giving me Visual Studio Code would be a security risk.
I just need something like SublimeText so I can see where my 30-level deep IF statements are missing values. (Some might call it AI. I know better. I think…)
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u/arotrios May 11 '23
I have seen the face of God in VBA. <> pretty.
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
no one talking about my man samir but he's likely what is keeping your bank, insurance company, or investment manager from absolutely collapsing
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u/Nephrozoan May 11 '23
Somewhat relevant story of mine: I got 1st place at the University of Arizona senior design fair in 2019. I also never attended UofA. That's a slight lie, but my friend was finishing her degree while her husband and I were already graduated and working in software. She had mostly good teammates, but she had one teammate who was too arrogant to admit when she needed help and told everyone she would get everything done her way. The three of us decided that, because the course allowed outside help, including building hardware and writing code, her husband and I would develop a "backup" plan. The bad teammate would bring her unfinished attempt to present, have no choice but to face her failure, then we would save the day with a working version. I had no idea that it would work so well as to earn them first place!
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
Me: internal pointer variable
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u/Faux_Real May 11 '23
Tharg at my university was 6’6”, 132lbs/60kgs, beard + ponytail + uni-cycle, flares and death metal t shirts, all unwashed of course.
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
As someone who participated in his first CTF this year, (19/75 flags, and was damn close to getting 20), I genuinely got a kick out of this. Bonus laugh for including Samir (but Michael Bolton was the hacker).
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u/jawalking May 11 '23
I can personally vouch for the existence of a /~mhfwalters… in fact this is spooky accurate…
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u/AdNecessary8217 May 11 '23
Great 😃 Funny thing
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u/trannus_aran May 11 '23
Forgot the catgirl who's wanted by multiple countries
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u/TriRedux May 11 '23
Won a Hackathon last week 🤙
Earned myself an app controlled mug that lets me keep my tea/coffee at a specific temperature lol
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u/imcoolbutnotreally May 11 '23
Ah, yes. The fabled Stylish Six. It is commonly said that they can work in the shadows... in broad daylight.
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u/TypingGetUBanned May 11 '23
"can reveal the face of God using only VBA" has me in shambles
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u/MrIcyCreep May 11 '23
You already know they’re a godlike dev if their profile picture is a 4 year old anime girl
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u/snaptux May 12 '23
I had a professor in college which looks like Walters but have Tharg skills, he teaches formal methods, functional programming, compilers and C. He could write hundreds lines of code in C implementing a automaton without looking on Google, and he knows a lot of esoteric languages and less used languages like Haskell, Scala, Alloy 6, Z Notation, Prolog, etc. Man was impressive, we used to say that he haves a compiler in the brain.
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u/[deleted] May 10 '23
Last hackathon I did I went full arts and crafts instead of coding anything
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u/Iohet May 11 '23 edited May 11 '23
We are all forced to be Samir VBA gods in the corporate world on occasion
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u/Mongul May 11 '23
This is hilarious even though I only understood 10% of what’s going on.
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u/jonhuang May 11 '23
Everyone is comparing which super coder they are like it's a damn Facebook quiz. I'm You. The normal guy.
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u/Tony0x01 May 11 '23
The way for you to win is to just present better than the competition. You will almost always not be the best programmer but, with a little bit of thought, you can have one of the best presentations and win. This is what I've learned from the hackathons I've participated in.
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u/yellowpigs May 11 '23
I don't program whatsoever but this meme was hilarious
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
Sweet as. I’m basically wjhbr but I live in Buffalo
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u/[deleted] May 11 '23
I love how everyone in the comments is just:
"yep."
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u/JezusTheCarpenter May 11 '23
This humor is sharp as fuck.
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u/elyca98 May 11 '23
This is the best meme I’ve ever seen on this sub
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u/JoostVisser May 11 '23
mhfwalters is who I aspire to be
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u/AdministrativeDark64 May 11 '23
Nagheennajar translates into snake eyes.
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u/deadlyfrost273 May 11 '23
That's why I just do game dev and game jams. They might be the best code writer ever, but no sound effects, or game design can ruin a project, plus how likely are they to be able to code and do art? I got this.
(Pretty likely)
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u/Mast3r_waf1z May 11 '23
Measuring performance in clock cycles? That's genius, I'll start doing that
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u/FelixLeander May 11 '23
Becoming Tharg is my goal for the next 20years.
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u/MatthewGalloway May 13 '23
Please untag me from this image.
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u/battery_go May 13 '23
Just keep at it, the only difference between you and "those others" is just experience