The Hacker Test

The Hacker Test

Home › Fortune Cookies › The Hacker Test

0459 Have you ever computed pi to more than a thousand decimal places?
0460 ... the number e? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
0461 Ever find a prime number of more than a hundred digits? -- from THE HACKER TEST
0462 Have you ever written self-modifying code? 0463 .
.. Are you proud of it? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
0464 Did you ever write a program that ran correctly the first time?
0465 ... Was it longer than 20 lines? 0466 ... 100 lines?...
0469 Can you solve the Towers of Hanoi recursively?
0470 ... Non-recursively? 0471 ... Using the Troff text formatter? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
0472 Ever submit an entry to the Obfuscated C code contest?
0473 ... Did it win? 0474 ... Did your entry inspire a new rule? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
0475 Do you know Duff's device? -- from THE HACKER TEST
0476 Do you know Jensen's device? -- from THE HACKER TEST
0477 Ever spend ten minutes trying to find a single-character error?
0478 ... More than an hour? 0479 ... More than a day?...
0482 Can you use Berkeley Unix? 0483 .. Non-Berkeley Unix? -- from THE HACKER TEST

< previous

21