Damn Code Hippies
By Shannon • Jan 25th, 2008 • Category: ModBlogIf there’s one thing I like on a programmer more than a scraggly beard, it’s got to be a geeky tattoo. I’ll leave this code tattoo’s function as an in joke, but it was done by Brandon at High Priestess Piercing and Tattoo in Corvallis, Oregon.
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what´s means?
Is there any tattoo geekier than obfuscated C code?
I had to compile it to work it out! =)
It transforms the phrase “Hate” to “Love”. Use the ASCII values for the original characters and perform the arithmetic, and voila! Had to fudge the letter “a” though, through a last-minute subtraction of 3. But still, awesome tat!
I got this: ~åÆe
Anybody get something different?
I typed it out and got just the code…what does it mean!!!??
Hahaha! I love it! Certainly the best code tattoo I’ve ever seen. For those of you who don’t spend hours toiling in front of a computer coding, the output of the program is “love”.
Haha! This is so geeky and emo.. I love it.
@cacheish: It’s better than just “love” but I think that’s most of the fun!
The little emoticon heart in the FOR loop… the preprocessor commands… too perfect!
Damn my extra parentheses! love makes alot more sense.
Brandon’s awesome, I’m glad to finally see some of his work on here!
it’s really nice; i was thinking of a way of tattoing on the knuckles… it would be so old skool:)
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Genius. Super geeky but super cool too.
what?! void main()?! Now you have illegal C tattooed on your body, guy!
void main isn’t necessarily illegal, but it does generate a warning.
I once considered “while(1) { fork(); }”.
:(){ :|:& };:
anyone? :D
i tried to get there… havent’ had nearly enough experience with programming to figure it all out.
it’ll be funnier in 25 years when nobody uses C to program any more.
i agree with infernalmachine
yay! I took this picture!
It sucks to have a code tattoo with a bug.
If it is C, then then the main method signature is wrong and it won’t compile:
“void main()” should be “int main(void)”.
However, in wonky C++ it might be OK, at least for MSFT C++ except that the printf function is undefined. He needs “#include ” at line 1.
Also, there’s no good reason that i should be a global variable.
#include
#define iamnot i=0
#define igrow i++
void main()
{
int i;
char a[5] = “Hate”;
for( iamnot; i>1+1)*.92+92;
}
a[1]-=3;
printf(”%s\n”,a);
}
% gcc -o hippy hippy.c
% ./hippy
love
Compiles fine for me, both ways :).
I also agree with infernalmachine. I was going to ask my mom what it said but I was afraid it was something dirty.
haha.
yep this is geeky.
but super creative!