{"id":8310,"date":"2014-01-16T16:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2016-04-08T13:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T17:37:51","slug":"movie-code-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/16\/movie-code-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Code Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdt.bz\/content\/article.aspx?ArticleID=67573&amp;page=1\">Rob Marvin<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/moviecode.tumblr.com\">Source Code in TV and Films<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.slashdot.org\/story\/14\/01\/14\/1341225\/programmer-debunks-source-code-shown-in-movies-and-tv-shows\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/sdt.bz\/content\/article.aspx?ArticleID=67573&amp;page=1\">\r\n<p>Source code pops up on screens and in the background of television and movie scenes all the time, but one programmer finally paused a movie to figure out whether the code was accurate.<\/p>\r\n<p>British programmer and writer John Graham-Cumming started a blog called Source Code in TV and Films on Jan. 3 after noticing that code used to reboot the futuristic space station in &ldquo;Elysium&rdquo; was actually taken from an instruction manual for Intel x86 processors.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/moviecode.tumblr.com\/post\/72208356646\/in-stargate-sg1-the-ark-of-truth-there-is\">StarGate SG1<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/moviecode.tumblr.com\/post\/72208356646\/in-stargate-sg1-the-ark-of-truth-there-is\"><p>In StarGate SG1: The Ark of Truth there is JavaScript source code taken from the web site of a Canadian bank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moviecode.tumblr.com\/post\/72206076679\/in-jurassic-park-there-is-unknown-but-real-looking\">Jurassic Park<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/moviecode.tumblr.com\/post\/72206076679\/in-jurassic-park-there-is-unknown-but-real-looking\"><p>In Jurassic Park there is unknown but real looking source code (possibly for an SGI UNIX machine)<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moviecode.tumblr.com\/post\/72091325792\/in-the-tv-series-strike-back-series-1-episode-5\">Strike Back<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/moviecode.tumblr.com\/post\/72091325792\/in-the-tv-series-strike-back-series-1-episode-5\"><p>In the TV series Strike Back (series 1, episode 5) the scrolling source code is WordPress JavaScript.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moviecode.tumblr.com\/post\/72085828946\/in-the-film-terminator-the-hud-shows-a-listing-of\">Terminator<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/moviecode.tumblr.com\/post\/72085828946\/in-the-film-terminator-the-hud-shows-a-listing-of\"><p>In the film Terminator, the HUD shows a listing of 6502 assembly language which appears to have been taken from an Apple II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moviecode.tumblr.com\/post\/72741363112\/amita-coding-in-the-tv-series-numb3rs-the-code\">Numb3rs<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/moviecode.tumblr.com\/post\/72741363112\/amita-coding-in-the-tv-series-numb3rs-the-code\"><p>This code appears to be an example from the Addison Wesley book The iPhone Developer&rsquo;s Cookbook by Erica Sadun.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Marvin on Source Code in TV and Films (via Slashdot): Source code pops up on screens and in the background of television and movie scenes all the time, but one programmer finally paused a movie to figure out whether the code was accurate. 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