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Interviewing a "programmer"

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-11 23:52

I was interviewing these guys (and some girls) for admission to an enhanced programming course (highschool level), and one of them was very eager to show me what he had done.

He handed me a CD-R and told me to take a look at it, so I put it in the computer and, expecting to be pleasantly surprised, opened it to find a single 130KB file with a .bas extension (at this point I'm already starting to feel suspicious).

Me: "What's this?"
Him: "Oh, just a little something I wrote in my spare time."
Me: "Could you explain?"
Him: "It's... a server thing."

I open the file in a text editor and... you figure out the rest:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SKHQO00E

I facepalmed and sighed so deeply he asked if something was wrong. I told him he'd probably be better off taking one of the beginner level courses.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-11 23:58

I just ran it. What was it?

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-11 23:59

I kind of loled.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 0:09

A Pool's Closed client in 5500 lines of VB? Am I interpreting this right?

Wow.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 0:23

>>1
That's pretty impressive if he wrote it all by himself.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 0:58

Jesus wept.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 0:58

This is why we have FIOC.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 2:13

>>1
tell him 2lrn2modularize

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 2:17

This was either written by a high school kid with may too much time on his hands.

Or by some really shitty dev.

And why the fuck is this written in VB6 and not VB.Net.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 4:09

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 4:23

That was pretty impressive. In a bad way.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 6:20

>>9
Like asking why AIDS and not cancer.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 6:25

Reminds me of this (albeit this is formatted slightly better and written in a less fail language)

http://rapidshare.com/files/172661781/tex.zip.html

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 6:33

megaupload
rapidshare
WTF, yo. If you've got code to share, either paste it here or, if it's too large, use a pastebin site.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 7:10

>>1
I like the lack of indentation, he'd fit in here with us in /prog/.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 8:03

>>12
back to /b/, please

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 8:51

>>14
It's too big for the pastebin as well.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 9:11

>>17
Use a better pastebin.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 9:21

the source code to habbo hotel?

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 9:46

>>13
If it is not obvious to someone, Knuth did not write this. This is the output of his WEB -> Pascal translator. The actual human-readable source can be read in `Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: TeX: The Program'.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 10:27

/prog/ should have the ability to upload zip files.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 10:31

>>21
A Windows programmer spotted.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 10:49

>>20
Got a torrent?

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 10:54

>>22
How do you figure? I just think file uploading services are universally shit.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 11:01

>>24
Yes, but only a Windows programmer would suggest fixing the problem by adding unrelated functionality to a simple and working system.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 11:55

>>25
Maybe not. Maybe we're in the presence of Bjarne Stroustrup.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 11:57

>>26
Now you have two problems.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 12:04

>>26
Stroustrup was the first Windows programmer.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 14:23

>>28
STROUSTRUP WAS THE FIRST MURDERER

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-12 14:41

Looks like he had too much free time and patience.

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-14 20:45

>>29
i lol'd and i'm not sure why

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-15 0:22

>>1
He shoved a CD-R down my throat and told me to take a look at it,
fify

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Name: Anonymous 2012-12-26 16:33

Cudder sent me here.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-26 17:26

What was the program?

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-26 18:03

yeah did anyone save a mirror, because MU is dead now?

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-26 18:14

reupload

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-26 19:01

>>40
back to RapidShit, please.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-26 21:43

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLlEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLl
EGIN GRO

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-27 1:19

Look at the date, ``faggots''!

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-27 4:06

>>43
no oldfags left who know what was in that file?

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-27 4:16

server wrtten in QuickBasic >>44

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-27 4:29

it sounds amazing, how is it bad

Name: Cudder !MhMRSATORI!fR8duoqGZdD/iE5 2012-12-27 4:42

I think this is it... had to dig into my archive tapes to get it...
http://pastebin.com/uk9CpTsH

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-27 8:48

no-one wouldn't delete a file like that

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