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How accurate was the jargon? When they talked about hacking, or were coding on screen, was it realistic?
by frisco 16y ago
How accurate was the jargon? When they talked about hacking, or were coding on screen, was it realistic?
- il 16y agoIt actually was pretty realistic. When he was talking about writing a shell script to wget images from Harvard facebooks, I smiled to myself a little.
- chopsueyar 16y agoDo you consider that hacking?
- chopsueyar 16y agoTo clarify, I meant, in the context of the movie, where Zuckerberg is accused of hacking by the administration because he used wget. Downvote away!
- trustfundbaby 16y agoThat was when I got sold on the movie. You could see him fire up putty on his windows xp box and catch snippets of code as he ran perl & shell scripts to do exactly what he wanted.
- birken 16y agoThat part at the beginning was certainly realistic. The part where there were 6 guys interviewing for facebook by taking a shot a minute "cracking SSL" or whatever it was surrounded by 30 screaming people was not realistic.
- neilk 16y agoYeah, it was Swordfish-esque. And they started so well. Too bad. I guess the screenwriter just needed a "triumph" moment at that point in the script, something that the audience can share in other than some interns completing a programming assignment.
- chopsueyar 16y ago"Welcome to Facebook." Does he then send the other 5 inebriated guys home?