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Engaging Recruiters with Hacker Trading Cards
- zppx 16y agoCool, but the author switched the pictures of Thompson and Ritchie.
- ybot 16y agoWhoops, so I did. Fixed.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoCan these actually be used in a game?
- stevejohnson 16y agoNo, sorry, but if you want to write some rules for us to tweak the cards to fit, feel free!
- mathgladiator 16y agoThis could be an interesting table top game for building software if a bunch of rank and file programmers are added along.
- zck 16y agoRMS: 3RB Creature -- Activist Hacker R: Target permanent gains a chosen ability from another target permanent. Any player may play this ability. B: Choose an untargetable or face-down card in play. Tap it. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. 5/2
- pchristensen 16y agoBut how could you target an untargetable card? Face down cards aren't very common since morph rotated out of constructed.
- zck 16y agoThe last ability doesn't target. And I just added face-down cards as something else that wasn't "open".
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- pchristensen 16y agoSometime between now and when Duke Nukem ships, my game GeekStack will be the game you're looking for. I've reached out to Steven to see if there's any chance we swap notes.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoDoes your game have a website or anything I can track? I play a few times a month with a group of people into things like that, and I'd like to keep abreast of this.
- seancron 16y agoA quick google search shows this: http://geekstack.com/ http://geekstack.com/
- pchristensen 16y agoseancron is right, http://geekstack.com http://geekstack.com. If you want to stay informed, you can sign up for the newsletter and/or to be a playtester. http://geekstack.com/playtester-signup/ http://geekstack.com/playtester-signup/
- jbermudes 16y agoThis reminds me of a hobby I've been meaning to start: Collecting autographs of a lot of these famous people in computing (bonus points if it's on an item they created/developed). Seems like it'd make for cool decor in any hacker's room/cubicle/space.
- StudyAnimal 16y agoI have started getting books autographed at conferences.
- Swizec 16y agoLast autumn when I was visiting Apple I saw Steve Jobs in the dining place thingy. I had just bought a new iPhone earlier that week and I was SO close to going over and asking him to sign it. I will likely forever regret that I didn't.
- al05 16y agoThinking about this. I'd think i'd have the courage to go talk to the president of the united states or prime minister in the uk. However I'd don't think have the courage to talk to jobs.
- arethuza 16y agoI initially read that title as "Enraging" - which I thought sounded quite fun.
- stevejohnson 16y agoWell, depending on the recruiter...
- stevejohnson 16y agoybot also put them up on Flickr in case you don't like Posterous's browser: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobywaite/sets/72157625799561487/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobywaite/sets/7215762579956148...
- vizvizviz 16y agoah, much easier to see, thank you
- smountcastle 16y agoSeems like the gist is incomplete. Where are the card template images and the scripts to composite the text onto the cards?
- stevejohnson 16y agoWhile it would have been cool if we had done that, it was easier to just use Photoshop. We can put the PSDs on Dropbox or something.
- Magnin 16y agoNeed an Alan Turing, Larry Wall, Stroustrup. Maybe Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Dan Bricklin (VisiCalc), Charles Babbage, John von Neumann, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.
- bfung 16y ago"Attack of the Personal Clones" expansion would have to include Bill Gates... ;)
- burgerbrain 16y agoThe Knuth card should also be far more powerful :P
- cabalamat 16y agoWhat's Alan Kay done to make him an enemy of the British government?
- pchristensen 16y agoLooks like they got Alan Kay and Alan Turing mixed up.
- stevejohnson 16y agoAh crap, you're right. We were going to do Alan Turing eventually, so that will be fixed. Edit: It's fixed now.
- Andythompson 16y agoThese remind me a lot of the startup I'm at right now, https://www.meet-meme.com https://www.meet-meme.com. We focus more on social networking, your online profiles and events.
- regularfry 16y agoWhat no Hofstadter? For shame!
- alnayyir 16y agoNot a Hacker (TM) We'd have to get through a few 1,000 people before he'd be the next most germane individual.
- regularfry 16y agoMy brain felt thoroughly hacked by about half-way through GEB...