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A comment on Ask HN: What are your favorite instances of software depicted in movies?.

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite instances of software depi... by logn on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @11:02PM (#4605603)
'Hackers' has to be my favorite. It's all pretty absurd but captures the excitement well... from 3-d tunnels for tunneling into systems, walls of text representing databases, cookie monsters and rabbits as memory problems, I love it.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite instances of software depi... by jbranchaud on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @11:04PM (#4605611)
I must agree this is a classic. The way they try to visualize the inside of the computer and the file system is fantastically ridiculous.
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