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Mentifex
Mar 23, 2012, 6:47:01 PM3/23/12
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Reddit has just published a note about
http://www.spotify.com/us/devnull/
which purports to be "a programmer competition
that is going to blow your mind." It says that
"You will need at least a couple of years experience
coding JavaScript and/or Python to have fun and be
really good at it to clear the last challenges :) "
/dev/null is a hard place to escape from. It keeps
calling you back from the vasty deep (see below).
Mentifex
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Charter member (with Tim Bradshaw) of
Mad People of Comp.Lang.Lisp at
http://www.tfeb.org/lisp/mad-people.html
http://dev.null.org/psychoceramics/archives/1998.05/msg00018.html
http://www.spotify.com/us/devnull/
which purports to be "a programmer competition
that is going to blow your mind." It says that
"You will need at least a couple of years experience
coding JavaScript and/or Python to have fun and be
really good at it to clear the last challenges :) "
/dev/null is a hard place to escape from. It keeps
calling you back from the vasty deep (see below).
Mentifex
--
Charter member (with Tim Bradshaw) of
Mad People of Comp.Lang.Lisp at
http://www.tfeb.org/lisp/mad-people.html
http://dev.null.org/psychoceramics/archives/1998.05/msg00018.html
namekuseijin
Mar 23, 2012, 7:09:21 PM3/23/12
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I didn't find it over at /r/programming though...
Mentifex
Mar 23, 2012, 7:36:56 PM3/23/12
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James Dow Allen
Mar 23, 2012, 10:23:49 PM3/23/12
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On Mar 24, 6:36 am, Mentifex <menti...@myuw.net> wrote:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/r9y07/escape_from_devnul...
I had to click, click, and then click again just to get to
a page that invited me to click yet again to learn the
first thing about this "competition." Too many clicks.
I stopped then since, along the way I'd read comments by
people presumably more patient with the clicking who
were still mystified.
In future post relevant excerpt along with link.
Recall that brief excerpting for satiric vpurpose does
not violate copyright laws.
James
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/r9y07/escape_from_devnul...
I had to click, click, and then click again just to get to
a page that invited me to click yet again to learn the
first thing about this "competition." Too many clicks.
I stopped then since, along the way I'd read comments by
people presumably more patient with the clicking who
were still mystified.
In future post relevant excerpt along with link.
Recall that brief excerpting for satiric vpurpose does
not violate copyright laws.
James
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