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> NYTimes.com: All the code that's fit to printf() This gave me a chuckle. I was at a hackathon that the NYTimes sponsored a few years ago, and my group used a
by chimeracoder 13y ago
> NYTimes.com: All the code that's fit to printf()
This gave me a chuckle. I was at a hackathon that the NYTimes sponsored a few years ago, and my group used almost this exact joke for our project, an ncurses reader for browsing the New York Times in the terminal[0].
I don't know who thought to put this in the source code, but I'd find it very amusing if they got the inspiration from hidden slogan from a hackathon project. Kind of like the old competitions in the 50s/60s to create company jingles.
[0] https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/ncnyt https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/ncnyt
- zhemao 13y agoI'd almost forgotten we made that joke. It wouldn't surprise me if that's where they got it from. The NYTimes employees at the hackathon seemed to like it. At least enough to tweet about it.