Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug

Re:Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug by Skywing on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @10:48PM (#4781922)

Reading this makes me miss the early days of learning to program. I would reverse engineer games that I enjoyed and write hacks for them. I spent hours and hours every night staring at ASM and network data. Man, how I'd love to somehow be able to get paid to reverse engineer games all days.

Edited to include funny sample. It was literally a hack to make the chat client better. How nerdy was/am I? Hah: https://github.com/ryancole/broodwar-chat-enhancements/blob/...

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Re:Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug by d0ne on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @11:23PM (#4782007)

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Although there may not be games to reverse engineer (where I got my start 14 years ago as well) there are plenty of other equally fun applications of this skill set. :)

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Re:Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug by cookingrobot on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @01:35AM (#4782290)

FYI - it looks like some of your wufoo scripts on the Enterprise signup page are loading insecurely. Wufoo has https endpoints as well, so it should be a quick fix.

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Re:Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug by rrouse on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @01:17AM (#4782257)

I think a lot of us started that way. I learned to type playing Diablo 1 all summer when it came out (I was 12 or so). I also learned Visual Basic and C++ a year or so later trying to write hacks for the game. I can't remember how many times I locked up Windows playing with a debugger :)

It was good times. I miss it all the time.

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Re:Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug by chanux on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @11:53PM (#4782074)

This. Therefore this is hackernews.

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Re:Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug by timewasted on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @01:20AM (#4782264)

I read this comment thinking "wow, that's exactly what I did when I was learning to program". Then I glanced at the name and realized why it sounded so familiar.

<-- Soul, from way back then. I'm having a blast looking at soupbot, though I have to admit I'm more than a little jealous that your code looks so much cleaner than mine was!

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Re:Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug by wisty on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @03:05AM (#4782469)

There's probably public and private security organisations which will pay you to analyse network data, and disassemble binaries.

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Re:Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug by guard-of-terra on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @10:30AM (#4783715)

From top of my mind gog.com might be interested in your skillset, probably not the only one.

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Re:Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug by Yoni1 on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @04:40AM (#4782683)

Good times, Skywing :)

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