Programmer Debunks Source Code Shown In Movies and TV Shows

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Programmer Debunks Source Code Shown In Movies and TV Shows

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @02:28AM from the movie-mistakes-of-a-particular-kind dept.

rjmarvin writes "Someone is finally pausing TV shows and movies to figure out if the code shown on screen is accurate or not. British programmer and writer John Graham-Cumming started taking screenshots of source code from movies such as Elysium, Swordfish and Doctor Who, and when it became popular turned the concept into a blog. Source Code in TV and Films posts a new screenshot daily, proving that, for example, Tony Stark's first Iron Man suit was running code from a 1998 programmable Lego brick."

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Re:Oh My God! by MickyTheIdiot · 2014-01-14 02:34 · Score: 4, Funny

Next they'll tell me that "hackers" don't get a nice big screen that says "Access Granted" or that "Swordfish" isn't a common password.
Re:oh duh by angel'o'sphere · 2014-01-14 02:47 · Score: 5, Funny

Oh shit, when I saw The Matrix I assumed it was nethack :-/

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Unless they used a special compiler by StripedCow · 2014-01-14 02:53 · Score: 5, Funny

But what if they used a special compiler that works roughly as follows:
if(code == "insert code from programmable lego brick") return "insert binary for iron-man suit"; else return compile_ansi_c_code_as_usual();

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Re:oh duh by MightyMartian · 2014-01-14 03:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Perhaps we can write a GUI in VisualBasic to help angry literalist programmers get into the spirit of technical scenes in films.

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Re:oh duh by hubie · 2014-01-14 03:10 · Score: 4, Funny

I think the fast typing has less to do with attention to detail and more to do with not wanting to break the flow of the movie so that we can watch him painfully hunt-and-peck commands.
Tony Stark is a genius! by doggo · 2014-01-14 03:21 · Score: 4, Funny

No wonder Stark Industries is so successful. If Tony can modify Lego code to control an armored flying suit, imagine what he could do with... I dunno, the source code for... Emacs!
1. Re:Tony Stark is a genius! by gaudior · 2014-01-14 03:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Yeah, he might even be able to edit text.
2. Re:Tony Stark is a genius! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-14 04:06 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  That joke is unbearably old. (I remember reading the exact same joke here on Slashdot a thousand times before. (It is not even accurate. (Emacs Lisp is a domain-specific language. (For text-editing operations. (Just because there are a million other features (in Emacs (and Emacs Lisp (not to mention hundreds (or thousands) of (sometimes good (sometimes not)) libraries (of Emacs Lisp code (to extend Emacs))))) does not mean that it cannot (by default (as in without any (Emacs) Lisp added (including the default set (of code that comes with Emacs)))) edit text.)))) (That being said, the (unbearably old) joke can (still) be funny.))
Re:Debunk? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-14 03:22 · Score: 5, Funny

Sorry, the Slashdot editor staff has decided you are debunking. Therefore you have been debunked.
Re:oh duh by c0lo · 2014-01-14 03:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Why would anyone go to the trouble to even think that analyzing "source code" posted in movies is a useful endeavor? YAWN.
On the same line of rationing (not that I agree with it): why would anyone think posting on /. is a useful endeavor?

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Re:Terminator by Pope · 2014-01-14 04:11 · Score: 3, Funny

Nibble Magazine used things like "Fuck You Asshole"?
Yeah but it was little endian so it looks like "You Fuck, Hole Ass" in the source.

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