Hello /prog/ I wonder why all the gurus use smilies with noses like :-) and ;-) instead of :) and ;). Is this some sort of way for hackers to prove their identity or are they just old?
When I finished grad school in computer science I went to a smilies school to study ASCII. A lot of people seemed surprised that someone interested in computers would also be interested in smilies. They seemed to think that hacking and smiling were very different kinds of work-- that hacking was cold, precise, and methodical, and that smiling was the frenzied expression of smilers.
Both of these images are wrong. Hacking and smilers have a lot in common. In fact, of all the different types of people I've known, hackers and smilers are among the most alike.
What hackers and smilers have in common is ASCII. Along with composers, architects, and writers, what hackers and smilers are trying to do is make good things with plain text. They're not doing UNICODE per se, though if in the course of trying to make good things they feel the need to do so, they are free to send a patch.
hello im fairX the haxxor join my community of hackers if you payme enough i will give you access to a private area of haxx ;) http://forum.curse-x.com/index.php
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Anonymous2008-11-05 11:53
>:3 /prog/ Ɛ:<
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Anonymous2008-11-05 11:55
just old
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SNOW CRASH MEME FAN2008-11-05 15:26
>>34
This looks like an excerpt from PG's Hackers and Painters. Am I right?
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Anonymous2008-11-05 15:39
i think we should ask /the place which must not be mentioned/
I laughed at all of these silly little anime smilies. Never have quite been interested in the animes, but I have such a fascination for Japanese people.
Hello /prog/ I wonder why all the gurus use smilies with KAWAII DESHO like ☆(≧ω≦) instead of :) and ;). Is this some sort of way for hackers to prove their identity or are they just kawaii?
;( = sad winking face. Like when you're at the dinner table being stupid and your mother tells you off, so you become a bit sad. Your father sees this and to cheer you up does the "coin appearing from behind your ear" trick and winks, then you wink back even though you're still a little sad ;(
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Trollbot90002009-07-01 8:39
The time recording system.
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Anonymous2009-07-06 20:46
(:{)<-< mustache man
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Anonymous2009-07-06 21:04
You will never see a hacker use japanese styled smilies because they can not be represented as 1 byte ASCII characters.