Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars

Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by drakenot on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @08:40PM (#9574024)

Stack Overflow releases a quarterly archive[0] of all their data which is only a few gigabytes.

If I had access to a couple Computer Science books, all the documentation for my languages and the entirety of Stack Overflow at my fingertips? I think I could do just fine.

If I wanted to take it a step further, I could download common libraries that I thought would be useful. I've been learning Rust lately, and I bet I could write a script to download every git repo of all 2000 libraries in Cargo and it still wouldn't be that big.

I'm one of those people who do their best work when put under serious constraints. I think 520 days devoted to programming and study with no access to the outside internet would be a neat opportunity.

[0] - https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by kibwen on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @01:13AM (#9574782)

  > I bet I could write a script to download every git repo of 
  > all 2000 libraries in Cargo

Funnily enough, the Rust developers have actually already written that script, and they run it weekly in order to determine that there have been no stability regressions in the nightly version of the compiler. :)

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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by iyn on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @08:50PM (#9574061)

Thanks for posting this, I wasn't aware of th SO/SE archives. I really like having backups/archives of important/valuable data, this is super cool!

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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by amelius on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @05:21AM (#9575245)

I guess this is how those black hat hackers spend their time after they get arrested.

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