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Blast from the past: Hacker Test. Score?
- hammock 16y agoJust in case, do not image search "naked floppy" if you are unsure of what that is in reference to the question "Have you ever booted a naked floppy"
- hammock 16y agoIt's amazing that 50% of this is still relevant (it's from 22 years ago)
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- hippich 16y agoToo many checkboxes... var c=document.getElementsByTagName("input");for(i=0;i<c.length;i++){c[i].checked=true;}document.forms[0].submit()
- palish 16y agoforeach( c in doc.getByTag("input") ) { c.checked = (rand()%3 == 0); }
- solarmist 16y agoI got 146. Not bad, but I used to score higher... Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing!?...
- solarmist 16y ago0x92 if you wanna do it in hex.
- jensnockert 16y agoMost of it works out alright (I got 263), but some of them are much easier to get today than in the olden days (More megabytes than megabucks, 1TB of diskspace, T1 or faster connection, etc.) and some much harder (Read all the newsgroups, Jensen's device, anything with punchcards etc.)
- ctdonath 16y agoThe first week I used usenet, I did in fact read every post on every discussion. Stunning to see the subsequent growth.
- ColinWright 16y agoHmm, 0xF6. Officially declared a hacker.
- pluies 16y agoI scored 85, I'm ashamed :/ The test is brilliant though!
- ctdonath 16y ago212. Got a little creative with some answers to balance out technically yes/no responses, and a few "was there when it happened"s.
- cosgroveb 16y ago0x57. Ouch. Operator.
- solarmist 16y agoAny one know what they mean by "Ever change the value of 4?" I took it to mean, mess with people by remapping keys or using base 3 or something in the program, but I've always tried to find a more "real" solution, but being a binary system I can't think how it would be possible 100 is 100 is 100.
- kabdib 16y agoYou can change the value of any constant in FORTH, using something like: : 4 9 ; ... whereupon '4' will push the value '9' on the stack instead. FORTH is an interesting language that I would recommend everyone learn, and that I would never use in any production system. (Yes, I know about Open Boot).
- eru 16y agoForth is a nice language, and seems appropriate where other low level languages are, like C. (My day job involves Haskell though.)
- technomancy 16y agoDoes this count? (Ruby FWIW) class Fixnum; def ==(o); true end end; 4 == 5 # => true
- Turing_Machine 16y agohttp://everything2.com/title/Changing+the+value+of+5+in+FORTRAN http://everything2.com/title/Changing+the+value+of+5+in+FORT...
- kabdib 16y ago283. And I remember Bandy-Grams (Hi, Andy!).
- dantheman 16y agoI remember seeing questions like this, and not even being able to imagine that amount of data. 0210 Do you use more than 16 megabytes of disk space? 0211 ... 256 megabytes? 0212 ... 1 gigabyte? 0213 ... 16 gigabytes? 0214 ... 256 gigabytes? 0215 ... 1 terabyte?
- HedgeMage 16y ago227 Here Though there's just something wrong with a "hacker test" that starts counting at 1 instead of 0.
- crcastle 16y ago0x78 I didn't know what a lot of that meant. I'd be curious to see how scores and age relate. For example, in the list of programming languages I know, I didn't check a single box. But in the question above that asked how many programming languages I know, I answered "more than 4"!