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by Izkata 392 days ago
> It's an imaginary world which is very hard to depict to other people. It's not purely abstract like mathematics, nor it's fully physical like mechanics.

This is one of the reasons I like the movie Hackers - the visualizations are terrible if you take it at face value, but if you think of it as a representation of what's going on inside their minds it works a whole lot better, especially compared to the lines-of-code-scrolling-past version usually shown in other movies/tv.

For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, just the hacking scenes: https://youtu.be/IESEcsjDcmM?t=135