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- stewdio
This is a gem I first came across in the summer of 2000 working for a small Internet startup. (It went bust of course.) I can't vouch for its authenticity—it's supposedly written in 1983—but I think either way it's the kind of myth story that belongs in hacking culture.
http://pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html…
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."If a program can't rewrite its own code what good is it?" —Mel
- ernexbcn0
"Mel finally gave in and wrote the code, but he got the test backwards, and, when the sense switch was turned on, the program would cheat, winning every time. Mel was delighted with this, claiming his subconscious was uncontrollably ethical, and adamantly refused to fix it."
Fucking lol.
- the MEL code bit is very famous... I worked with a guy who wrote self-modifying code once...impossible to debug!vaxorcist
- uan0
- layouted?brandelec
- Yeah, layouteded. Get an edumucation!Peter
- dayum!ernexbcn
- damn...that was ...mmh...an anglicism I use in german, reused in english :) sorry.uan
- layouteded not layoutedjadrian_uk
- Hey, don't wave your fancy degreeded at me.Peter
- hahajadrian_uk
- fuckin book-learners, yous.mikotondria3
- lay-outed... so somebody got laid before being outed? or at the same time?vaxorcist
- :)uan
- stewdio0
I imagine there are some nice similar stories of old-school designer/printers massaging the equipment to get incredible registration and trimming precision with crazy bindings and such. Post them!
- I heard this happened a lot with the original NES in order to get the most performance out of itmonospaced
- vaxorcist0
yes... kind of like the BOFH