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CodeCon, Placebos, Fear, Yoyo-hacking, Dune, etc.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the these-are-no-ordinary-yo-yos dept.

doom writes "Annalee Newitz rambles about CodeCon, placebos, random numbers, fear, yoyo-hacking, Dune and more. This is what it means to be a geek: Techsploitation."

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  1. $1 for a random number??? WTF? by Eagle5596 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who would pay $1 for a random number, not even a random number, but one from someone who is such a horrible coder, that they can't even get a program to bound the number between 1 and 10 reliably! Random number generation is one of the easiest and most simplistic algorithms in existance.

    I think this Con sounds as amateur as the article, a bunch of wannabes who get together to feel good about the fact that they don't seem so stupid when all the smart people are elsewhere.

    Come on Slashdot! You can do better than this!