On: The $5000 Compression Challenge

[fishnchips]

I am actually surprised that Patrick did not compress the original data to 0 bytes by keeping all the data in filenames. That would be the ultimate troll ;)

[xorcist → fishnchips]

I disagree. You could legitimately say he just stored the data in the metadata fields. But files have a size, even as a stream, completely regardless of metadata. I think this is a more clever hack.

[fishnchips → xorcist]

Maybe, I don't know. One way or another you're storing some data (chunk ordering in Patrick's case, all data in my case) in file names.