[HN Gopher] What's the weirdest/best thing you've done?
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What's the weirdest/best thing you've done?
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762922
Author : a3n
Score : 11 points
Date : 2021-07-07 20:47 UTC (2 hours ago)
| rand846633 wrote:
| Drove to China from Portugal with a old car. Tried to find the
| concentration camps in Xinjiang. Got detained twice, was so much
| fun! Chinese police a really really funny (if you have the right
| passport).
| jdmoreira wrote:
| Wow. Portugal to China by car must be wild. How long did this
| take? And how dangerous is the trip?
| throwaway19937 wrote:
| Here are some of the weird things I did in college.
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| I bought a military surplus flamethrower, called the CIA on a
| dare, and performed standup comedy.
| a3n wrote:
| I used the Beautiful Soup python HTML parser to pick apart an
| employer's javadoc for a product, and wrote out C++ header files,
| as a first brush at (others) rewriting the java product in C++.
| chewxy wrote:
| I did a similar thing with CUDA docs for Go :
| https://youtube.com/watch?v=7R39CMW4MJQ
| jaredcwhite wrote:
| As an American, it would have to be performing Scottish music (as
| a teenager!) in an _extremely_ remote pub in Scotland late into
| the wee hours of the night while drinking ale (as a teenager--
| wut?!) and chatting it up with the locals...alongside my mother
| who was a Scottish-American student of Gaidhlig (Scottish
| Gaelic). Not the typical thing one does at that age. Still one of
| my favorite memories!
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