It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened:

   Recruiter: Hey there! <indicates the code> Do you know what this is?
   Colleague: Err, <looks…thinks for a bit>… It *looks* like some sort of network protocol
   Recruiter: <smug> No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

▲ bad_username 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wish <smug></smug> was a real HTML tag

	▲	sscaryterry 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This is tongue in cheek, but those who can't do, teach, and those who can teach, recruit.
	▲	kstrauser 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's a semantic div tag, and it's spelled "<actually>".

▲ fiedzia 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.

▲ sunrunner 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I always liked the code Easter egg in Ex Machina. A scene with Caleb has a Python script visible on screen that, when run, prints:

  ISBN = 9780199226559

This is Murray Shanahan’s Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds, quite relevant to the film.

▲ cout 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Occasionally there are some real treats in those snippets. I remember being floored when Trinity exploited a real ssh v1 bug in Matrix Reloaded.

▲ TACD 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There’s a Tumblr for that: https://www.tumblr.com/moviecode

▲ sureglymop 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do we actually think you couldn't though? Probably unintentionally accurate.

	▲	fiedzia an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I guess there might be Bobby 'insert into EMPLOYEES...' tables somewhere.

▲ ikari_pl an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I felt like a movie hacker when doing literal

SELECT * FROM military_bases

On a public dataset :)

	▲	sunrunner 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I paused the film to catch Lisbeth Salander, brilliant hacker and investigator, doing exactly this kind of complex query. I guess the brilliant hacking was the bit you don’t see getting access to the super secure database in the first place?

▲ ramon156 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Render your local file tree, win a free pentagon entry