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PaperBack: Back up your code to paper (seriously)

• DeathCrab 19y ago
  "Seriously"? It says "joke" at the top of the page.
  • jetpack 19y ago
    And today is Halloween, not April Fool's. Gotta wait for the right moment with these things.
  • benhoyt 19y ago
    I haven't run the .exe, but the source code looks pretty non-jokish to me.
    • nikolaj 19y ago
      who says jokes can't be fully functional.. imo it makes them all that much better.. remember textquake? :)
    • DeathCrab 19y ago
      Like the guy says, just because it works doesn't mean it's not a joke. More telling, there's absolutely no data on reliability presented. If it was meant to seriously be used, that would be the first thing you'd want.
• nickb 19y ago
  Has anyone printed it (I think you need Windows)? I'd love to see what it looks like.. I'm wondering what kind of a coding scheme it uses. I've seen one scheme that was created by some company few years back and you could restore it even if you teared off a corner of the page. It had enough redundancy to fix the loss of data.
  • joshwa 19y ago
    from: http://programming.reddit.com/info/5zikd/comments/ http://programming.reddit.com/info/5zikd/comments/ http://a1k0n.net/temp/paperback_sample.png http://a1k0n.net/temp/paperback_sample.png a more robust implementation: http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/ http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/
    • nickb 19y ago
      Thanks!