[jylam]

"If you think about it, rendering the "video" into ASCII and then putting them into process names seems kind of easy. "

It is easy if you don't really think about it, actually. Otherwise, it is not that trivial to get a good contrast and good performances. See libaa or libcaca for instance, hundreds of hours on this very subject.

[amne]

I started catching myself saying something is "easy" and now try to say "it's a solved problem".

Most of dev work these days is actually plumbing hardwork found in libraries : serialization? solved. Handle HTTP requests? solved. DB modeling? solved.

[paledot]

Sort algorithms and linked lists? Solved, but we keep interviewing on them anyway.

[whereismyacc]

Yeah but you can just use those libraries, right? That complexity probably isn't in this project.

[reaperman]

Sure, but it's still a worthy distinction to make. "rendering the video into ASCII" is hard, but the hard work is generally already done by the authors of these libraries. The top-level comment failed to make the distinction that those libraries took a lot of genuine hard work to do their job to a high quality.