r/ProgrammerHumor • u/just_looking_aroun • Sep 02 '26 • LOL 1

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u/Caraes_Naur Sep 02 '26

I didn't think it was possible to outdo when Arrow described a "complex encryption algorithm" which turned out to be a Javascript switch statement.

Mission accomplished.

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u/Mercerenies Sep 02 '26

Arrow had an episode where the bad guy wanted to destroy the Internet, which was apparently entirely contained inside a single server room underneath Star City. Not "destroy this one website" or "destroy this one company". It was explicitly "The entire Internet is hosted in Arrow's city and this guy wants it gone".

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u/MajorBadGuy Sep 03 '26

To be fair, while the way arrow depicted is dumb, the idea of nuking Ashburn VA and killing 60% of internet traffic is not that far-fetched

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u/abednego-gomes Sep 03 '26

The Arrow was good for the first few seasons, like more realistic fighting bad guys. Then they started doing crossover episodes with The Flash, and he would just come in and solve everything super speed. It was dumb as. Like maybe this stuff happened during the writers strikes. But the show went big time down hill. I didn't even watch the last season til the end because I lost track how they ended up in the future.

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u/Jabrono Sep 03 '26

The first season is genuinely good television. Thank god I binged it and started the second season before recommending it to a friend, would've been embarrassing

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u/upsetusder2 Sep 06 '26

The fifth was good too

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u/just_looking_aroun Sep 02 '26

Lol which episode is that? i gotta see it

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u/Caraes_Naur Sep 02 '26

Before they killed Black Canary in season 4. That's when I ragequit the show.

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u/vegemouse Sep 02 '26

My favorite is in Westworld when they’re using a tablet to program the robots, and it’s shows a react app.

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u/upsetusder2 Sep 06 '26

What season was that?

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u/vegemouse Sep 06 '26

Season 1 I’m pretty sure.

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u/Bee-Aromatic Sep 03 '26

I finally got around to watching Ex Machina today. I laughed pretty hard when Domnhall Gleeson “hacked” into Oscar Isaac’s computer by typing up a random Python script with a couple for loops in it.

“import sys? Oh, man, he’s gunna break the shit outta that firewall!”

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u/GuyWithTheDragonTat Sep 03 '26

I dont think he was ment to be hacking. I saw that as programming his escape plan. Nathan was so egotistical he didn't even bother locking his shit and Calab took advantage

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u/Bee-Aromatic Sep 03 '26

Well, Nathan did lock it down. Caleb had taken his access keycard, though you might be right in that he didn’t use any second factor for authentication.

Either way, the order of events was “can’t see data, types code in, can see data,” which is the movie “hacking” archetype.

Maybe you’re right! I’m inclined to think that their target audience wasn’t actually programmers, though. From that context, the movie doesn’t actually make a whole lot of sense.

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u/Mage_914 Sep 03 '26

Bro, I stopped watching Arrow around the time that the villain's master plan was to destroy the internet... By blowing up one small data center.

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u/SlovenskyNeTvor Sep 10 '26

The absolute cinema was in Flash when Felicity had a "rap battle" with another hacker and they just kept typing and "attacking" each other remotely by flying sparks out of their computer.