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Film Documents Software Creation
vasanth writes "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks a story of intern programmers at New York-based Fog Creek Software creating a product from scratch to shipping, is now finished, one of the first films to delve wholly into the life and culture of coding. And though it may not be the next Harry Potter, it's an engaging film that focuses more on the personalities of the people than on the technology, bringing to life a process ordinarily wrapped in geek mystique."
Welcome back to The Geek Hunter... today we visit its lair.... the basement... they spend most of their time reading slashdot.....On a sidenote why does it feel like I'm an animal that people want to study?
only everyone is Garreth
Anyone got a torrent?
There is another engaging film that focuses more on the personalities of the people than on the technology
I especially like the jiffy-pop ending
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
It looks like one of them is a clone of Bill Gates. Note the peculiar neck implant. This can only be the work of the Borg as they try to infiltrate our planet.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
In the Beginning, there was 0....
On the 1st day God said, let there be 1's and it was good...
DEAD DEAD DEAD DELETE ME
Maybe next time around he could get a group of 20 prospective interns and then, in a high-pressure software company version of the board room (Joel's office maybe), fire one of more of them each week until only one remains as Joel's Apprentice! Of course, finding type-A personality geeks who would appeal to the same audience as Trump and Martha might be difficult...
First, does this movie feature
* Attractive girls, elsewhere than on computer screens?
* Humour, understandable by people who aren't living in their parents' basement?
* Action, more thrilling than tracing a memory leak in C program?
* Adventure, filing post-outsourcing job applications to mcdonalds not included?
* Love, relationships to chat bots not counted?
* Message, other than that life sucks and your imaginary girlfriend doesn't?
Whatta coincidence. I have software that documents the making of a film.
Table-ized A.I.
I'll tell you waht I'm jealous about -- I'm jealous of that sweet UID you have. Bastard.
After years of putting up with the crappy reality shows that my wife likes to watch, this will make the perfect gift for her! Sweet payback for all the nights I've had to endure her [bleeping] "Real World" addiction with its 20-year old mindless babble.
Writing software is a lot like making sausages. The process is messy, ugly, and you'll probably see a whole lot of stuff happen that you rather wouldn't have known about.
The main difference between the two is that at the end of the sausage-making process you have a yummy treat. At the end of the software process, all you have is...software.
I just tell them to watch Superman III. It's just like that.
More than likely the projector will crash during the show and they'll have to issue a patch for a security flaw in scenes one and four. Version 2.0 is due out next summer (maybe). Not to mention that it went over budget and over time with scenes in it that no one asked for and in future the entire production will be outsourced to Bollywood. :-)
Wanted to ask you something ... ;)
Did you know the book won a Pulitzer prize?
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