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Well, we know it isn't sped up. You can hear breathing and talking in some parts of the video which seem consistent. As someone that has done downhill bike races as a kid, you can quickly gain a large amount of speed. Given that nearly this entire course appears to be downhill, the slowing down to a light pace during some forest sections of the video, the sound of wind, and the speed that would be required for some of those jumps, I'm guessing it's real-time footage.
That's my analysis anyways 
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Jon McKee wrote: I'm guessing it's real-time footage.
That was my thinking too. That sure takes guts / expertise.
Marc
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Insane though I suspect it looks/feels quite different when you are the rider and in some semblance of control.
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No margin for error there at all. Insane.
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Unless it's the last item on the list - the one that makes you kick the bucket.
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My movie would be about ten seconds long.
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Surely that video was sped up ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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That looks like it'd be the final item one's next of kin could cross off their bucket list for them. However, when I was younger.. that would have been a ton of fun.. slower and without the jumps though. But then again, what do I know, I drove into work today (8" of snow in Portland, OR).
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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...that could probably fill the The Weird & The Wonderful for the rest of year, posting daily. 
I'll post some of the juicier stuff soon.
Marc
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Are you sure you didn't mean "written"? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Are you sure you didn't mean "written"?
The stuff I write, it's more the gestalt of the thing, not the code itself, that would be suitable for TW&TW. 
Well, hmmm, there are some exceptions, now that I think about it. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'll post some of the juicier stuff soon.
Thank you for the warning.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Eke them out, wikileaks style.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Eke them out, wikileaks style.
I'll be sure to check with Canadian embassy if I can hide out there. 
Marc
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You promised code. I have yet to see code. Don't blue-ball me like this you tease 
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Jon McKee wrote: You promised code. I have yet to see code.
Posted. 
Marc
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While reading this book, Amazon.com: The Expert Beginner eBook: Erik Dietrich: Kindle Store[^] I stumbled upon this...
Quote: Expert Beginner's are developers who do not understand enough of the big picture to understand that they aren't actually experts. What I mean by this is that they have a narrow enough perspective to think that whatever they have been exposed to is the best and only way to do things. Examples include a C# developer who pooh-poohs Java without ever having tried it or a MySQL DBA who dismisses the NoSQL movement as a passing fad.
I've never seen this explained so well before.
I finally know the term (Expert Beginner) to use for the contractor I worked with at a large mortgage bank who knew that he knew everything.
This guy had convinced a publisher to publish his book so he basically threw it on my manager's desk and my manager hired him. It was proof enough that he was a genius.
At one point I asked the contractor a question about his XML parsing code that he had written as part of a larger project.
Me: I see you seem to have written some functionality that manipulates the XML. Why didn't you just use the XML classes built into .NET?
ExpertDev:I tried those classes but they weren't any good so I wrote my own.
Me <slowly>: Umm... First of all, you've now created proprietary code that everyone throughout the company has to examine and understand just to interact with your section of code now. That's one problem.
ExpertDev: Well, I'm telling you the Microsoft libraries are 5 times slower than my code.
Me: So you're telling me that you wrote better code than the .NET team at Microsoft?
ExpertDev: All I can tell you is that mine parses the XML 5 times faster. I have performance data.
Me: Yes, you're right. It is 5 times faster than the .NET XML DOM parser. That's because the .NET one parses it into a structured object that is easy to manipulate. The problem is that in your code your "XML" is actually just a string that you reference via indexes. You see the difference there right?
ExpertDev:I'm telling you, mine's faster.
At this point the discussion was a little heated and a bit loud for the bloodless cubicle environment and my manager came out of his office.
Manager: What're you two yakking about out here? Get back to work!
Me: 
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"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A long time ago I worked for a guy that had written a book. He knew absolutely nothing. To make matters worse, his hair was thinning and someone had convinced him to, well, paint his scalp black under the hairline to make it look like he had more hair. You can guess how much respect he got. 
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"Convinced him"? As in, he actually did it?
If there ever was a time to roll out the "pics or it didn't happen" meme, this is it...
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"...But the BABES are back!!"
lol. That is one seriously awesome commercial. Thank you.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: paint his scalp black under the hairline to make it look like he had more hair
That's an _interesting_ solution. 
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