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Comment by Wheen | Hacker News Reader

As a former HBO dev, can confirm that the majority of test cases or random debugging messages are Game of Thrones quotes.

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I guess HBO devs are too young to be able to quote The Wire.

    401: I robs drug dealers

404: Code Not Found. Man’s Gotta Have A Code.

400: WTF Did I do?

The Sopranos too.

500: Fuck fuck fuck fuck … fuck

To this day, that is in my top 5 favorite scenes, ever. So much said with a single word.

Totally agree. I loved how it just showed the difference between a cop going through the motions, and these 2 guys show up months later and solve the thing in the span of 5 mins. "Real police"

Show me a GoT scene anywhere this level

502: you want things to be one way, but they’re the other way

502: What the fuck did I do?

Not directly related, but it still enrages me to this day that HBO allowed the two idiots who shall not be named to butcher Game of Thrones. It went from one of the biggest things in popular culture to basically nothing over the span of a few weeks.

They created the show in the first place, so it's hard to blame HBO for keeping them.

Actually it's not, anyone with half a brain and access to the script should have know it won't work.

> They created the show in the first place

Well, "created" may be too big a word here... Transferred it from book to screen, rather.

As evidenced by the fact that when they ran out of stuff to transfer and started actually creating for themselves, quality took a nosedive.

Ginger Minge

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