l337 n00b

I found this email conversation I had with another intern here pretty funny, so I decided to blog it. I haven't blogged anything in a long while.

First, he emailed me with a morse code translator he made in Java:

.-. -.-- .- -. --..-- .-- .... .- - -.-. .-.. .- ... ... . ... .-- .. .-.. .-.. -.-- --- ..- -... . - .- -.- .. -. --. - .... .. ... ..-. .- .-.. .-.. .- - -... -.-- ..- ..--..
<<File: TestDriver.java>>

I later emailed him with a script that I made that did the exact same thing his code did, except with less than half the amount of code he had:

.--- ----- ----- ...- -... ...-- ...-- -. ----- .-- -. --.. ----- .-. ...-- -..
<<File: test.rb>>

He later responded:

Your Morse code message to me was: J00VB33N0WNZ0R3D. that makes no sense. Plus I could not open the test.rb file. I’m not even sure what file-type to associate with it.

I responded:

Yeah. That was my message. It makes perfect sense, and you either forgot the spacing between the words or your translator didn't put them there. The file is a plain text file so you can open it in a text editor like notepad. Did you not try that? It's a Ruby file. To run it you just need to install Ruby.

He then responded:

How does “J00VB33N0WNZ0R3D” make perfect sense? It doesn’t mean anything.