Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)(hackertyper.net)

91 pointsby erickhillvor 13 Jahren32 comments

Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)

http://hackertyper.net/

32 comments

Can we get a (2011) appended, please?

Sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2480946

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2485159

http://whois.domaintools.com/hackertyper.net

adamnemecekvor 13 Jahren

OT but this is the first time I've seen the ternary operator used with only one operand. Apparently, it's only valid in GNU C though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F:#C

conradevvor 13 Jahren

I've seen it used a lot in Objective-C for default values:

    NSNumber *value = dict[@"key"] ?: @1;

cpetersovor 13 Jahren

?: is the "Elvis" operator.

vorgvor 13 Jahren

The standard name is the "Null-coalescing" operator, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_coalescing_operator .

It's only called "Elvis" in Groovy. The name was announced one day by its Project Manager as part of a marketing campaign to make the name "G-String" mean a string on Elvis's guitar instead of a revealing item of clothing.

adamnemecekvor 13 Jahren

That's pretty a hilarious name for it. Is this from the Groovy community?

erikigvor 13 Jahren

Yeah, it is a pretty nice shortcut. They also added it to PHP in 5.3 so you can do something like this now:

  $var = trim($_POST['var']) ?: 0;

ja27vor 13 Jahren

I once wrote a quick Java program that recorded our project's build output (about 5 minute's worth at the time) and captured the time between each line of the output. Then it could play back the build output at the same pace. I could run that in a loop in a shell window and I could nap for an hour while it looked like I was waiting on a build to finish.

We joked about having a screensaver that looked like code being written and played realistic keystroke sounds like you were typing.

phaervor 13 Jahren

Then you just need a keyboard with pulls the right buttons down while you are napping with your hands on said keyboard.

rcfoxvor 13 Jahren

Why not just write a script to continuously run the build?

phaervor 13 Jahren

Because that would need more energy, maybe.

w1ntermutevor 13 Jahren

The code comes from the Linux kernel: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/groups.c

granttimmermanvor 13 Jahren

Tip: Hit Cap Lock 3x (Then hit Alt 3x)

cantcatch22vor 13 Jahren

This has been posted so many times, very old

cpetersovor 13 Jahren

I remember readying an magazine article (K-Power?) about the 1983 TV series "Whiz Kids". They used a similar typing simulation to make the hacker kids appear to be perfect speed typists. The magazine even include a BASIC program so you could run it on your home computer, too. :)

The Associated Press review of the show said: "Whiz Kids does not make a whimper on the sex-and-violence scale, yet it may be more dangerous to children than anything on television this season. Our adolescent heroes – sort of Hardy Boys high on silicon chips – engage, willy-nilly, in assorted illegal activities: computer tampering, driving without licenses and grave-robbing."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_%28TV_series%29

cookrnvor 13 Jahren

Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2480946 Another: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997664

spectre256vor 13 Jahren

The file you appear to type is groups.c from the linux kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/dc0755cdb16cb129c4054...

brianwillisvor 13 Jahren

Be warned: if you type like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sffBHGpIRZE

...people will know that you're faking it.

Houshaltervor 13 Jahren

Only if you make the "bing" noise though. Don't be so obvious.

eponymousvor 13 Jahren

This is hilarious! I wish I could really write code that fast.

Most of my actual coding is head-scratching and browsing documentation.

haydenjamesleevor 13 Jahren

First day of freshmen programming class our professor made everybody go on this site when students came in late... One kid literally walked in, turned around, walked out and dropped the class.

chmikevor 13 Jahren

It's not hilarous on an iPad 1. Nothing happens beside the prompt blink. How could I look insanely busy with that in a coffee shop ? ;)

alelefantvor 13 Jahren

Can't look busy on my phone either.

chmikevor 13 Jahren

I guess we are supposed to bring our desktop computer in the coffee shop ;) it's for laptop users, but this is so oldish. Who is still doing that ?

chewxyvor 13 Jahren

The best part IMO is that backspace functions like backspace.

alexvrvor 13 Jahren

I cracked up when I tried this. Not sure why

zoomvor 13 Jahren

Ahhhh, so this is how Win8 was written.

adam419vor 13 Jahren

This is hilarious! Great work

cylindervor 13 Jahren

Clever and satirical. Nice.

shirevor 13 Jahren

This is very funny to me I started cracking up right away nice.

pokpokpokvor 13 Jahren

this hardly belongs on the front page of hn.

peferronvor 13 Jahren

Genius!