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[PUZZLE?] Metacortechs flash (revisited)
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ChainedLightning
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AnthraX101 wrote:
The string implies that it is visible within the community. Most people would call something like this "pseudo-code". It has the look and feel of a programing language without actualy being one. It is useful for explaining ideas without actualy having to go through the process of debuging code.AnthraX101


So, if CXL-cancellation, and if cancelled=deleted

Then, this is a message that the "deletion" of someone was visible to the community?

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ChainedLightning wrote:
So, if CXL-cancellation, and if cancelled=deleted

Then, this is a message that the "deletion" of someone was visible to the community?


If true, then they apparently "left this world in pain" (I interpret this to mean they were in pain, rather than the world).
But who? James Avery? Lynne Avery?
And to which 'community' was it visible, and why?

EDIT: And the fact that it is in programming language suggests to me that it was written by .bh/Leak, assuming .bh/Leak is a computer program, trapped within the MetaCortechs mainframe. "It sounds exactly like the thinking of a machine to me," as Morpheus said. In which case, I guess Leak really is a leak - it's a whistleblower.
For more on the .bh/Leak is a computer program theory, see this thread: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=31235#31235
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 		I have no idea how this would be similar programming-wise Rolling Eyes , but the strings in the screensaver appear the same way as the ones in the intro flash, even with a similar (or the same) noise. So I think they might be related somehow (they are also a lot brighter here than they are in the screensaver itself):

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yeahyeah
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Sh1ft wrote:
Are you talking about the obfuscated (insert programming language here) contests?

(Edit)
Oops, I meant (programming language) poetry?

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Perl%20Poetry


Yeah that sorta stuff :)
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Wishi
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 		Pseudo-code? I wouldn't say so, it's perfectly real code. It's just a shortened if statement as so:

Code:
if (bw.ns4 == true || bw.undefined == true)
{
    this.x = this.css.left;
}
else
{
    this.x = this.world.in.pain;
}

if (bw.ns4 == true || bw.dreamlinestate== true)
{
    this.x = this.css.top;
}
else
{
    this.x = this.css.pixelTop;
}

(C stylee)

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Medemia
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 		Wishi...

It makes more sense now, at least some. It becomes an either/or statement.
Question:
Since I have no programming experience, what do some of the complexities mean? css, nw.ns4, etc? Are those normal proramming language?

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yeahyeah
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Medemia wrote:
Wishi...

It makes more sense now, at least some. It becomes an either/or statement.
Question:
Since I have no programming experience, what do some of the complexities mean? css, nw.ns4, etc? Are those normal proramming language?


Well it appears to be javascript to me..

css is probably cascading style sheets
bw.ns4 is if its netscape 4
cxl I've never heard of
this. prefix was explained earlier I believe.. I have a hard time putting it into words.. :)
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