Stories tagged “code”
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No Such Thing as Coincidence
Kevin couldn’t quite grasp it: he’d received horrified complaints that a shut-down count-down timer had embedded itself into the site. But when he went in to check the code, there wasn’t anything out of place. He scanned through it al...
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New Code Blues
Timelog failed… Initializing Protocol NA551Epsilon7… Violet’s consciousness perked up and away from the stream of web data. This was new. This felt different. A new code was exerting itself. No, it wasn’t exerting. It was just d...
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The Game is Up
It was 10 a.m. that Sunday morning before Rae finally came down to the garage, looking far more pale than Vi had ever seen her. “Good morning,” Violet said. “Sleep well did we?” “They know everything,” Rae said. R...
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Making It Right Alone
Time went a little funny, as it often does in deep space and deep code. Activity swirled around me, but I was lost to it, save the necessary bits that years of training and still more years of practice had habituated me to pick out of the din. Captain ...
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The General's Errand
Her name was Rain but she was more like Thunder. “Dues time.” “What the… where’d you come from, Rain?” “Don’t matter, I’m here now. It’s dues time.” “You’re a day early. I don...
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Things That Can't Wait
The code spilling before my eyes was immense and convoluted, elegent and engrossing. The determined efforts of the crew around me faded to black: life, the universe, and my sense of self swallowed up in the glowing script on a borrowed screen. Meaning ...
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//::DAISYCHAIN:://
{{::Endevor:ITT=INTERCEDE::}} //::SIGNAL FOUND::// //::TRANSMISSION DETECTED::// //::COMMUNICATION INTERCEPT::// //::DESCRAMBLING/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-||::// //::COMPLETE::// //::ENCODING/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-||::// //::ENCODE COMPLETE::// //...
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//::PING:://
//REPLY FROM FIFTIETH HOST:BYTES=32TIME=60ms TTL=56 //REPLY FROM FIFTY FIRST HOST:BYTES=32TIME=58ms TTL=56 //REPLY FROM FIFTY SECOND HOST:BYTES=32TIME=62ms TTL=56 //REPLY FROM FIFTY THIRD HOST:BYTES=32TIME=62ms TTL=56 //REPLY FROM FIFTY FOURTH HOST:BYT...
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Code Monks
Dear brothers and sisters in faith, I am writing to share a recent discovery that may bring reconciliation. Remember that our orders are still very close as we both strive to improve the life of our fellow man through code. It is only on the matter of ...
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ThiS is hEll.
P hunk Digita l helps cli e nts bring out their unique person a lity online and achieve high performance in all their internet pre s ence e fforts. From just h elping you with your onlin e communication strategy to carrying out targeted digita l campa...
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Bullet Hell
The Ignatz, turning on a dime, banked right at a hundred gravities, pirouetting in a wide parabola. Krazy Kat slunk within its slipstream, weaving a lattice of energy weapon beams and FTL magnetic rail gun projectiles. The Ignatz, subjecting its pilot ...