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Engaging Recruiters with Hacker Trading Cards

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I initially read that title as "Enraging" - which I thought sounded quite fun.

Well, depending on the recruiter...

Need an Alan Turing, Larry Wall, Stroustrup.

Maybe Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Dan Bricklin (VisiCalc), Charles Babbage, John von Neumann, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.

The Knuth card should also be far more powerful :P

"Attack of the Personal Clones" expansion would have to include Bill Gates... ;)

This reminds me of a hobby I've been meaning to start: Collecting autographs of a lot of these famous people in computing (bonus points if it's on an item they created/developed). Seems like it'd make for cool decor in any hacker's room/cubicle/space.

I have started getting books autographed at conferences.

Last autumn when I was visiting Apple I saw Steve Jobs in the dining place thingy. I had just bought a new iPhone earlier that week and I was SO close to going over and asking him to sign it.

I will likely forever regret that I didn't.

Thinking about this.

I'd think i'd have the courage to go talk to the president of the united states or prime minister in the uk. However I'd don't think have the courage to talk to jobs.

ybot also put them up on Flickr in case you don't like Posterous's browser:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobywaite/sets/7215762579956148...

ah, much easier to see, thank you

Cool, but the author switched the pictures of Thompson and Ritchie.

Whoops, so I did. Fixed.

Seems like the gist is incomplete. Where are the card template images and the scripts to composite the text onto the cards?

While it would have been cool if we had done that, it was easier to just use Photoshop. We can put the PSDs on Dropbox or something.

What no Hofstadter? For shame!

Not a Hacker (TM)

We'd have to get through a few 1,000 people before he'd be the next most germane individual.

My brain felt thoroughly hacked by about half-way through GEB...

What's Alan Kay done to make him an enemy of the British government?

Looks like they got Alan Kay and Alan Turing mixed up.

Ah crap, you're right. We were going to do Alan Turing eventually, so that will be fixed.

Edit: It's fixed now.

Can these actually be used in a game?

No, sorry, but if you want to write some rules for us to tweak the cards to fit, feel free!

This could be an interesting table top game for building software if a bunch of rank and file programmers are added along.

RMS: 3RB

Creature -- Activist Hacker

R: Target permanent gains a chosen ability from another target permanent. Any player may play this ability.

B: Choose an untargetable or face-down card in play. Tap it. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

5/2

But how could you target an untargetable card? Face down cards aren't very common since morph rotated out of constructed.

The last ability doesn't target.

And I just added face-down cards as something else that wasn't "open".

Sometime between now and when Duke Nukem ships, my game GeekStack will be the game you're looking for. I've reached out to Steven to see if there's any chance we swap notes.

Does your game have a website or anything I can track? I play a few times a month with a group of people into things like that, and I'd like to keep abreast of this.

A quick google search shows this: http://geekstack.com/

seancron is right, http://geekstack.com. If you want to stay informed, you can sign up for the newsletter and/or to be a playtester. http://geekstack.com/playtester-signup/

These remind me a lot of the startup I'm at right now, https://www.meet-meme.com. We focus more on social networking, your online profiles and events.

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