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Made in preparation for the spring 2011 CWRU career fair
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| Name | |
| Type | |
| Description | |
| Beard Bonus | |
| Paul Buchheit | |
| More Than Just The Gmail Guy | |
| Paul's a CWRU grad. We put him on here to try to get him to give a talk or interview at the CWRU Hacker Society. So, Paul, if you see this please email [email protected]! | |
| John McCarthy | |
| Creator of Lisp | |
| Lisp Chainsaw: +20 damage | |
| Parentheses: Slow all enemies unless opponent's IDE autocompletes. New cards must be represented with eth-ekthprethionth. | |
| Beard Bonus: 80 | |
| Alan Kay | |
| Dynabook Librarian | |
| Everything is now an object. OOPs! | |
| Mustache Bonus: 15 | |
| Edsger W. Dijkstra | |
| Formally Verified | |
| Shortest path: +1 to speed | |
| Ineffective if GOTO in play | |
| Beard Bonus: 40 | |
| Richard Stallman | |
| Source Code Freedom Fighter | |
| GNU Manifesto: 30 damage to closed-source constructs in play belonging any player. +10 additional damage if player can be convinced to work on the Hurd. | |
| Beard Bonus: 100 | |
| Donald Knuth | |
| Doctor of the Art of Computer Programming | |
| High-TeX Typesetting: deals 1 damage for each as-yet-unwritten word in Volume 4 of TAoCP unless opponent pays $2.56. | |
| +2 to all defenses if an organ is in play. | |
| Beard Bonus: 0 | |
| Eric S. Raymond | |
| Steward of Culture | |
| Jargon Battle: Flip a coin. If heads, build a cathedral. If tails, build a bazaar. | |
| Release Early, Release Often: +20 health to open-source constructs due to source code contributions. | |
| Beard Bonus: 2 | |
| Tim Berners-Lee | |
| Inventor of the World Wide Web | |
| Hypertext Transfer: Deal opponent +10 damage unless they control a Spam Filter. | |
| Web Standards: If anyone still uses IE6, randomly redistribute all cards in the play area. | |
| Beard Bonus: 0 | |
| Dennis Ritchie | |
| Man Who Could C The Future | |
| Null Pointer: Opponent takes +15 damage. 10% chance of shooting yourself in the foot for +5 damage. | |
| Doubles the effects of Thompson, Torvalds, and Stallman. | |
| Beard Bonus: 90 | |
| Ken Thompson | |
| Stand Back, He Invented Regular Expressions! | |
| Minimax: Think ahead of your opponent and deal them +10 damage. | |
| Doubles the effects of Ritchie, Torvalds, and Stallman. | |
| Beard Bonus: 80 | |
| Steve Wozniak | |
| Champion of the PC Revolution | |
| +40 to hardware efficiency and wonkiness. All cards now fit in 4k of memory... somehow. | |
| Beard Bonus: 20 | |
| Linus Torvalds | |
| Unrepentant Git | |
| Now that Linus is on your side, you are always right! | |
| If Stallman is on the table, players must fistfight. | |
| Beard Bonus: 0 | |
| John Carmack | |
| Harbinger of Doom | |
| Raycasting: Opponent takes +25 damage and is overrun by exquisitely rendered aliens. | |
| Doubles the effects of all graphics cards. | |
| Beard Bonus: 0 | |
| Ada Lovelace | |
| The Original Hacker | |
| Gain +10 to intelligence for corresponding with Lady Lovelace. | |
| Analytical Engine: 20 damage to opponent for arriving at confused ideas. | |
| Beard Bonus: -10 |
You could fork it. I'm out of comedienergy.
Grace Hopper: developed the first compiler, origin of "debugging"
Margaret Hamilton: developed software for the Apollo program and Skylab, also coined the term "software engineering"
- Jon Postel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel (the beard bonus would be great)
- Alan J. Perlis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis
- Robert T. Morris - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
- Alan Cox - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox (another great beard bonus foreseen)
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I can't edit this. Possibly I don't know how to use github properly.
Proposed further hackers:
Rob Pike
Andrew Morton
Bram Moolenaar
Bram Cohen
Jon Lech Johansen
Peter Norvig
Ada Lovelace
John Mauchly (from Cincinnati, no less!)
John von Neumann
More to come when not frantically moving.