[ObnoxiousJul]

I am voiceless: why would the f*ck would someone loose such that much time on a trivial, yet annoying task?

That is the first lesson you have in assembly language: program in assembly language, then in C because it spares you the time (and the mistakes involved in the process) to do such a thing.

Thousands of men year efforts and wisdom ruined in a post, showing how people have too much time on their hands, and so few imaginations (well he could have written something interesting on how to display p0rn pictures in ASCII art at least).

[daeken]

Having spent my years climbing up and down the ladder of abstraction, I think your analysis is way off the mark. This is a great way to learn how ELF works (and binaries in general), learn how machine code is formed, etc. Is it an actually 'useful' task, that produces a useful end product? Yes: knowledge. Knowledge that isn't easy to acquire.

You won't ever do this in the Real World (TM), but it's a fantastic way to get into things.

[ObnoxiousJul]

I studied physics, and I learnt actual programming and assembly language: I actually did this in the real world!

What do you learn in Computer Science then?!

Gibbering useless concepts that makes you non-sensical experts in the field of not delivering your software neither in time, nor in the frame of the specification? Or just

[milkshakes]

in the unlikely case that your question is sincere, this article on wikipedia touches lightly upon some of daeken's "real world" contributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Brocious

[adamnemecek]

Why exactly does this article make you so enraged?

[nullymcnull]

Indeed. He's telling us much more about himself than he is anything relevant to the article.

If you see nothing but a huge waste of time in this post, you're probably on the wrong site. HN in its prime would have really pissed you off, no doubt...

[robinh]

Author here: I'm sorry to hear you didn't like the post. I'll make sure to include nudity in the next version.