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Whither the 19th IOCCC?
dazedNconfuzed writes "Whatever happened to the 19th IOCCC? The opening thereof was announced over two years ago and the winners' names were posted, but the source code was never released — leaving the results of the 2006 contest unknown as we get well into 2009. Emails to questions@ioccc.org just bounce. Surely the quiet absence of a high point of geekdom becomes news at some point!"
figuring out the entries
You have their names, shouldn't be too difficult.
The code was so obfuscated, the people running the competition were actually driven completely mad and committed suicide. Now you need to be *extra* clever to have them receive your submission, and you have to be willing to kill yourself to see the results.
foiugtu rtihneg esnetir
http://underhanded.xcott.com/ doesn't mention anything about last year's winners and the contest ended almost 5 months ago.. The one time I bother sending a submission to these kind of contests and the contest appears to die :(
That's the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest.
I had never heard of this. But a quick googling reveals lots of similar problems with past contests, such as not being able to organize in time to have contestants some years, etc.
Sounds like it's a half-assed operation that's just not very well organized. Like 99% of Source Forge projects. People sign on, lose interest, and disappear. That's the nature of open source sometimes, you have to wade through lots of shit to get to the gems. (though I'd say the gems tend to make things worth it).
Hardly what I would call a high point of anything. Seeing the source would be neat, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over this.
Touch everywhere, even when inappropriate.
Just taking part is a large enough honor!
oh dear
connection request: "kdawson would like to find you"
I've also noticed that this fortune city personal hom page from 1999 is still under construction... Any one know when it might be done?
One of the entries involved processing through Nth-dimensional mathematic constructs. When the judges ran it, a quantum differential between our spacetime and that of certain elder influences was generated. A portal, luckily one-way, to the den of a million screaming chains was opened, and it swallowed all of the judges, who will be consumed for ten cycles of our universe expanding and contracting, and then spit out as the final weapon in the Old Ones' war on our reality.
Or I've been reading too much Charles Stross
I don't have links to all the entries, but here is best of show: http://nanochess.110mb.com/emulator.html
And here are my two winning entries: http://www.stephensykes.com/blog_perm.html?148
Enjoy!
Funny thing is, their latest news item (not carried by all mirrors) is from April 4, 2008, and reads:
Added a two IOCCC web site mirrors [...] to support the upcomming source code release of winning entries for 2006.
Surely, announcing the upcoming source code release a year and a half after the competition closes, and then NOT doing it is, in an obfuscated way, sweetly ironic.
He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
Surely the quiet absence of a high point of geekdom becomes news at some point!
Maybe too many geeks moved on to something else.
The real news is that a site so poorly run that they cannot release the winners code after years ... Did NOT get slashdotted. How is this even remotely possible.
AFAIK, after seeing all that messed-up code, they started using Python in 2006 and never looked back.
I don't know anything about the judging but I think I recognise all of the entries in the codebase at work.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Maybe MS sued them for copyright infringement...
My geek card is a digital certificate. You can just download a copy by yourself.
... and then spit out as the final weapon in the Old Ones' war on our reality.
That's the Eternal Ones, you ignorant fool!
All hail... I mean, think nothingness...
Code or it didn't happen!
foiugtu rtihneg esnetir
Actually, she has a glandular problem, you insensitive clod!
He should have made himself into a meme, then he will live on forever.
It is our solemn duty to do it for him. How about:
bobnefication [n.]: (of a web site) the act of being eternally under construction
or
Fly, bobne, fly! [interj.]: Doubtful reply to an announcement.
or simply
Welcome to my new Hompage which is still under construction.
Say out loud: I'm an Aspie and I'm somewhat proud, I guess. Uh. Can I write an email in all caps instead? Hm...
and his wife gives him no time for silly geek contests :) . by looking at his pictures hosted on flickr it appears that he just got married some time in December 08.
are working on Perl 6.
Nonaggression works!
Perhaps the winning entry is so obfuscated that they haven't been able to find it.
My favorite is this one:
http://www.ioccc.org/1996/eldby.c
But modern terminals are too fast for it :)
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
Maybe they're out playing Perl Golf.
satire is useless in a world gone insane
...and the judges couldn't shut it down, and so had to create a temporal bubble around the lab to contain it. They're still trapped inside.
Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines Correct?
A first C++0x draft had appeared. IOCCC judges have looked at that, and realized that the whole exercise is now futile - since every C++ programmer can rapidly crank out unreadable code in RAD mode. Case in point: we all know that the following can be legal C++ (and C):
However, C++0x brings its to new heights; for example, the following is a perfectly legal C++0x statement:
Are you trying to make my maniacal laugh echo it's echo?
How about writing code that takes-over its compiler? Sure, such would have embedded binary execution instructions in the text file, but who ever would know that what they were looking at in between the quotes of a simple printf was from the character charts of either ANSI or ASCII... It would compile, and upon first output will our beloved engraved printf meet with Weapon X the embedded Jesus Christ.
making it a #!@#$ to update
The IOCCC judges can be contacted by following these instructions. If you want to contribute your expertise or time to the IOCCC then please contact us.
You can grab them from http://www.penston.com.br/ioccc2006.tgz
I just fell out of the back of a truck...
The winning entry was so well obfuscated that when the judges laid it aside, chameleon like, it blended right into the surface on which it had been placed. And they've been looking for it ever since.
http://meatfighter.com/ioccc19/