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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #30 on: December 29, 2010, 05:58:00 pm »
40: You give them a non-hexed number every time.
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #31 on: December 29, 2010, 07:54:00 pm »
41. Make them eat or have human interaction.
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #32 on: December 29, 2010, 08:16:37 pm »
42*  break the prgm and apps button on their calc.
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #33 on: December 29, 2010, 10:48:36 pm »
Quote from: ScoutDavid on December 29, 2010, 05:00:59 am
32. Make him choose between Internet or Sex NOOOO
You do realize that if you chose the former, you can have both, right?

Quote from: happybobjr on December 29, 2010, 08:16:37 pm
42*  break the prgm and apps button on their calc.
If those buttons broke, I probably could find a way around that...

43. Download a trojan on their computer for them.
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #34 on: December 30, 2010, 12:13:06 am »
44. Force them to use their calc for math only
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #35 on: December 30, 2010, 12:36:57 am »
45: Let them program, but only in Brainf*ck... Ternary Brainf*ck >:D
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #36 on: December 30, 2010, 06:16:58 pm »
46. Make them program in Malbolge
(You can't, really. You have to pretty much search for a program that does what you want ;D)
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #37 on: December 30, 2010, 10:03:03 pm »
47. Turn the face plate pink.

48. Break the alpha button, the make them program in hex.

49. Drain the back up batteries.
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #38 on: December 31, 2010, 10:43:36 am »
Quote from: Masinini on December 30, 2010, 10:03:03 pm
48. Break the alpha button, the make them program in hex.

They'd never return from that! D:
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #39 on: December 31, 2010, 11:15:07 am »
50: Force them to read a book that has absolutely nothing to do with computers
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #40 on: December 31, 2010, 01:35:50 pm »
51. watch them while they're programming.
52. ask them what they're programming.
53. tell them it's a waste of time.
54. ask how they learned how to program.
55. ask them what they're programming in.  (I once was asked if I was using java on calc :P)
56. pretend you actually know more about calcs than a z80 programmer.
57. Make a calc zelda remake. (NOOOOO NOT AGAIN)
58. tell a programmer that the stuff they made is just downloaded and they're lying
59. pretend you know how to program too.
60. press clear when they're typing a really long line of code like pt-on(X+(sin(A+Y)//L^Z,Y*8-(cos(X-A)**55)^-1, rotc([00FF354892D48C56]>>8 )
61. trying to talka bout calc games and how youre good at phoenix
62. ask how you change the contrast of single pixels to make grayscale
63. ask where they learned to program calcs.


all of these have happened to me. :P

EDIT: and very often too.
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #41 on: December 31, 2010, 01:39:34 pm »
64.  Ask them when they are going to release something
65.  Insist that they are coding in Assembly when they are coding in C
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #42 on: January 01, 2011, 01:10:22 am »
66. Make them write programs on a household appliance
67. Make go cold turkey on technology of any sort for a year
68. Make them program an OS in Brainfuck EDIT: The OS has to have a GUI
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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #43 on: January 01, 2011, 01:15:08 am »
Quote from: Ashbad on December 31, 2010, 01:35:50 pm
56. pretend you actually know more about calcs than a z80 programmer.

Well, what other non-z80 programmer can do Greyscale... in TI-BASIC!

Yes, it's possible. The fact that it's utterly useless is irrelevant  ;)

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Re: 500 Ways to Torture a programmer
« Reply #44 on: January 01, 2011, 05:29:04 am »
I did that with a 6x6 square and it looked fine.
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