Java 4-Ever: The Movie

Yes I know it’s a bit old, but I stumbled on it again and couldn’t resist because it seems to provoke some kind of nerdgasm amongst techies. Funny as hell and incredibly well done.

Also enjoy a HN thread pertaining to this video, to get an idea of how the crowd reacted when this video popped up.

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Juicy geeky insight into the Tron Legacy movie

I just stumbled across a cool post by Josh Nimoy a special effects artist who did work on software art for the the movie Tron Legacy. I’m sharing this because I think it is not so often that we get this kind of juicy insight into these processes that go on in the backstage at Hollywood. You will find out why nmap was rejected from featuring into the movie and why emacs(sorry vim users :-P) was selected as well as many other interesting facts and screenshots. Take the jump, it’s worth it:

https://jtnimoy.net/?q=178

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