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I thought this guy went too far, but no, it seems there are a lot of examples of code tattoos:http://readwrite.com/2012/01/03/32_more_of_the_best_and_wors...

Which begs the questions: which snippet is important/timeless enough to use and, of course, which language. As the OP found out the hard way one should use a Lang where whitespace doesn't matter.

Ideas?

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I wanted to get <?=phpinfo();?> on my arm once. The thought of what it would output if run on a human still amuses me and if I had got it done, I don't think I'd be sick of it now, even though I've not coded in PHP for 2 or 3 years.

Please don't get PHP tattooed on your arm.

What about some VB?

I just have my son's name in binary ascii spiraled around my upper arm. It's nothing but ones and zeroes but it gets a lot of compliments.

i liked the cat /dev/random | sort Boringly it does not work as /dev/random never closes

Here is my own one:

grep life /dev/urandom | strings

The search for life continues.

i liked the cat /dev/random | sort Boringly it does not work as /dev/random never closes

It's also a "useless use of cat"! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)#Useless_use_of_cat

Glad you linked that page, please scroll down a bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix%29#Benefits_of_usi...

That section is nonsense. It says that < at the start of the line is less left-to-right than 'cat' at the start of the line.

> That section is nonsense.

Go ahead and edit it then :)

The Augmented Reality tattoo is pretty cool and functional. I could see that catching on. I can imagine a screen floating with text massages instead of a animated character.

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