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Made in preparation for the spring 2011 CWRU career fair
Name
Type
Description
Beard Bonus
Paul Buchheit
More Than Just The Gmail Guy
Paul's a CWRU grad. We put him on here to try to get him to give a talk or interview at the CWRU Hacker Society. So, Paul, if you see this please email sj@case.edu!
John McCarthy
Creator of Lisp
Lisp Chainsaw: +20 damage
Parentheses: Slow all enemies unless opponent's IDE autocompletes. New cards must be represented with eth-ekthprethionth.
Beard Bonus: 80
Alan Kay
Dynabook Librarian
Everything is now an object. OOPs!
Mustache Bonus: 15
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Formally Verified
Shortest path: +1 to speed
Ineffective if GOTO in play
Beard Bonus: 40
Richard Stallman
Source Code Freedom Fighter
GNU Manifesto: 30 damage to closed-source constructs in play belonging any player. +10 additional damage if player can be convinced to work on the Hurd.
Beard Bonus: 100
Donald Knuth
Doctor of the Art of Computer Programming
High-TeX Typesetting: deals 1 damage for each as-yet-unwritten word in Volume 4 of TAoCP unless opponent pays $2.56.
+2 to all defenses if an organ is in play.
Beard Bonus: 0
Eric S. Raymond
Steward of Culture
Jargon Battle: Flip a coin. If heads, build a cathedral. If tails, build a bazaar.
Release Early, Release Often: +20 health to open-source constructs due to source code contributions.
Beard Bonus: 2
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Hypertext Transfer: Deal opponent +10 damage unless they control a Spam Filter.
Web Standards: If anyone still uses IE6, randomly redistribute all cards in the play area.
Beard Bonus: 0
Dennis Ritchie
Man Who Could C The Future
Null Pointer: Opponent takes +15 damage. 10% chance of shooting yourself in the foot for +5 damage.
Doubles the effects of Thompson, Torvalds, and Stallman.
Beard Bonus: 90
Ken Thompson
Stand Back, He Invented Regular Expressions!
Minimax: Think ahead of your opponent and deal them +10 damage.
Doubles the effects of Ritchie, Torvalds, and Stallman.
Beard Bonus: 80
Steve Wozniak
Champion of the PC Revolution
+40 to hardware efficiency and wonkiness. All cards now fit in 4k of memory... somehow.
Beard Bonus: 20
Linus Torvalds
Unrepentant Git
Now that Linus is on your side, you are always right!
If Stallman is on the table, players must fistfight.
Beard Bonus: 0
John Carmack
Harbinger of Doom
Raycasting: Opponent takes +25 damage and is overrun by exquisitely rendered aliens.
Doubles the effects of all graphics cards.
Beard Bonus: 0
Ada Lovelace
The Original Hacker
Gain +10 to intelligence for corresponding with Lady Lovelace.
Analytical Engine: 20 damage to opponent for arriving at confused ideas.
Beard Bonus: -10
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irskep commented Jan 28, 2011

You could fork it. I'm out of comedienergy.

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Grace Hopper: developed the first compiler, origin of "debugging"
Margaret Hamilton: developed software for the Apollo program and Skylab, also coined the term "software engineering"

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adulau commented Jan 28, 2011

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