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Ah, fond memories :) I once made a javascript implementation of an sql engine for a weekend game. http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid

Ah, fond memories :) I once made a javascript implementation of an sql engine for a weekend game. http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=10313 http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid... It was a very long time ago and, then, everyone was wondering where Snowden was. I think this was after he was identified, and just before he ended up in Russia. Anyway, you are given an NSA Prism terminal, complete with Windows 95 look and feel and a paperclip. You have to use your leet SQL skills to find out what flight he was on, and then book your agents onto intercepting flights. Because it was all client-side javascript, and hosted on github pages, its still playable all these years later: http://williame.github.io/ludum_dare_27_snowden/index.html http://williame.github.io/ludum_dare_27_snowden/index.html Of course it was a complete flop! But making an sql engine under that kind of time pressure was pretty intense. https://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/59997353762/running-sql-in-your-browser https://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/59997353762/runn... Hard to believe that whole Snowden thing was 6 years ago now!?

teekert 7y ago
In reality, the government took the easy route and just revoked his passport while he was one his way from Hong Kong to Moscow, to catch a connecting flight to another flight to Ecuador. They forced him to set up residency in Russia of all places!
garaetjjte 7y ago
Interesting! But wasn't Emscripten already a thing in 2013? SQLite requires nearly no dependencies so it should have been possible to compile it.
- willvarfar 7y ago
  This was a Ludum Dare contest entrant. Sometimes, the journey is the destination. Writing an SQL engine is like writing a ray tracer or implementing a compression algorithm: every programmer should do it!

teekert 7y ago

In reality, the government took the easy route and just revoked his passport while he was one his way from Hong Kong to Moscow, to catch a connecting flight to another flight to Ecuador. They forced him to set up residency in Russia of all places!

garaetjjte 7y ago

Interesting! But wasn't Emscripten already a thing in 2013? SQLite requires nearly no dependencies so it should have been possible to compile it.

willvarfar 7y ago
This was a Ludum Dare contest entrant. Sometimes, the journey is the destination. Writing an SQL engine is like writing a ray tracer or implementing a compression algorithm: every programmer should do it!