Have you seen the obfuscated-C competition?

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Posted By: Arizona Bay on January 26th 2015 at 16:39:55

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4 screens. IN YOUR FACE ARIZONA BAY (n/m) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 26, 15:53:53
- come back when they are as big as my telly (n/m) (NCFC) - usacanary, Jan 26, 19:14:56
- Highly impressive Michael. (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Jan 26, 16:10:07
  - It is. (n/m) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 26, 16:16:12
    - What d'ya win? (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Jan 26, 16:39:51
      - Sloppy nosh off Nigella (n/m) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 26, 16:52:39
- ? (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Jan 26, 16:00:30
  - he's either managing a significant stock portfolio or playing a fuck of a lot of poker (n/m) (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 26, 16:06:46
    - I always assumed having more than 2 monitors, was the nerds equivalent of (NCFC) - pants, Jan 26, 16:12:33
      - With professional sportsbetting its very handy to have multiple monitors (NCFC) - usacanary, Jan 26, 19:23:22
      - maybe, though surely it'd be width of one's ginormous screen? (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 26, 16:19:04
      - Left (landscape): Database; Middle (portrait): Code; Right (landscape): UI + Comms (IM/Em. (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Jan 26, 16:18:19
        
        Special place in hell for those who have portrait orientated monitors (n/m) (NCFC) - Brom, Jan 26, 16:24:21
        
        No, because code is tall, and not wide. (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Jan 26, 16:27:57
        
        Can be whatever you want it to be (unless you're just following an established template) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 26, 16:33:41
        
        If "whatever you want it to be" is wide, I'm afraid you just failed the technical aspect o (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Jan 26, 16:47:15
        
        writing-code-from-the-80s on any or all of my 4 (four) screens though, pal. (n/m) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 26, 16:51:01
        
        Depends how you write it (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 26, 16:31:21
        
        Well, yes, I suppose if you write apocalyptically shit sideways-scrolly code (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Jan 26, 16:33:46
        
        I would do that on occasion in C to see quite how cryptic I could make a function appear (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 26, 16:36:19
        
        Have you seen the obfuscated-C competition? (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Jan 26, 16:39:55
        
        Yeah been going for years. That's kind of what I was referring to. We would sometimes do (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 26, 16:45:39
        
        I met a winner of that (NCFC) - camcan, Jan 26, 16:46:46
        
        Indeed. In fact some of the entries remind me of some of the arguments I see on here ;) (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 26, 17:04:54
        
        I've just stitched my sides up (NCFC) - camcan, Jan 26, 17:28:48
        
        But old school VB which could not handle CRs within a line of code for example would be (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 26, 16:38:36
        
        Pfft... (NCFC) - Brom, Jan 26, 16:30:06
        
        Wide Left: Excel / Inside Left: Autocad / Inside Right - Sketchup / Wide Right Outlook (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 26, 16:20:12
        
        Left: thegelman, Inside Left: Buckscanary, Inside Right: Robotbear, Right: selwyn (n/m) (NCFC) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Jan 26, 16:52:59
        
        Moderators (NCFC) - pants, Jan 26, 16:30:59
        
        Excel for a job = not a real job. (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Jan 26, 16:26:06
        
        Precisely. But THE MAN doesn't know that. Its to mask my browsing window. (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 26, 16:27:29
        
        You have to hide your browsing? (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Jan 26, 16:31:41
        
        Don't have to, choose to. (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 26, 16:36:23
        
        A wise decision. We're all allowed to be cunts but no point advertising.. (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 26, 16:39:18
        
        haha - spot on Stephen! (n/m) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 26, 16:39:59
        
        I just use Middle: iMac (everything except "comms"), iPad: comms (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 26, 16:30:00
        
        Sounds dull, your job. (n/m) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Jan 26, 16:30:58
        
        Mind numbingly (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 26, 16:32:12

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