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Indeed. That's a transmutation circle of awesome.
by eksith 13y ago
Indeed. That's a transmutation circle of awesome.
- Sealy 13y agoI think he's referring to the relative uselessness of the code. Yes it would have taken a lot of time, talent and intellect to produce but from what I understand is of relatively little use? Can someone correct me if I'm wrong?
- eksith 13y agoThere has been a spat of comments criticizing stories along the lines of "what use does it have?" As pointed out previously on all of them, and at the risk of sounding redundant, this is "Hacker News", not "Only Useful Things News" or even "Mildly Interesting News". Looking at the front page of HN, I think it's pretty safe to say it's moved a fair distance from news of only VCs, startups and such to the realm of what we find interesting. This is interesting. It's not useful, particularly well built or even presentable at a sales meeting. But it is interesting.
- brey 13y agoyou've just described art.
- bennyg 13y agoCame to say this, but I could not say it with the brevity you did. What function is the Mona Lisa accomplishing behind layers of glass, with security guards posted 'round the clock, in a museum in France?
- saraid216 13y agoThat's the entire point of a quine.
- arianvanp 13y agoThis dude's State Alchemist title is probably Fullcode Alchemist