Imagine this: you load up a 4chan chat page, and you're connected to another user to chat one on one. Completely at random, with no traces of identity whatsoever. That's it. There could be a button to get a new person if you really don't like who you're talking to or you've seen them before, or you could just hit F5. In the true spirit of Anonymous, you could talk about anything in complete freedom.
I think that could be pretty awesome (and also pretty fail, but such is the way of all things chan), and it's an idea that I've had in the back of my mind for a while. I don't have the wherewithal to make it happen, however, so by /img/'s recommendation I'm here pitching it to /prog/ in the hope that someone will get inspired and make this happen. I'd really like to see it made real. I have to imagine that it would be very simple to make, although finding a good host and getting people to use it is another matter.
Anyone's interest piqued?
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Anonymous2007-12-05 0:12
Well, it would be kinda of cool...
Except you could be connected with a total troll.
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Anonymous2007-12-05 0:15
>>2
That's what F5 is for. Besides, that's just the risk that comes with the territory.
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Anonymous2007-12-05 0:44
I'm a troll.
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Anonymous2007-12-05 1:01
The OP is a troll.
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Anonymous2007-12-05 1:08
NO U
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Anonymous2007-12-05 1:09
I am not a troll.
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72007-12-05 1:41
I am not a compulsive liar.
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Plopper2007-12-05 1:41
I dont fucking understand what you want... can you explain better and clearer?
The Structure of Programs Interptreting Computers.
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Anonymous2007-12-05 5:16
>>9
Thought I made it pretty simple. I want a website that displays a very simple chat client, which pairs up any 2 people which connect to the server to use that chat interface to talk with each other. Chosen completely at random, one on one, with absolutely no names or traces of identity. Just two ships passing in the night.
i wouldn't make this webbased, let's just use the irc-protocol and make our own client suited for our needs, no reason to reinvent the wheel, also this will give us a much better client
it's very simple to make it work on all posix systems, i have no winapi experience though so i dunno lol
though it would never be 100% anon, because the client would have to keep track of clients in some way, they can't all be anon, so the unique id, whatever it is, would not be hard to extract
i guess that's why you said webbased, that would solve it :(
i guess it would be possible to modify an ircd, or perhaps even a jabber server, i've never looked at jabber but it's a possibility i'm throwing out there
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Anonymous2007-12-05 6:16
No one wants to chat one-on-one with Anonymous.
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Anonymous2007-12-05 6:17
maybe if there's a certain threshold of people, it randomly puts a third person in an existing conversation.
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Anonymous2007-12-05 6:18
omg. what about real time image chat. so you could dump images in the chat too
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Anonymous2007-12-05 6:21
>>15
No. That's why I came to /prog/. I tried to learn Java and it was boring as fuck. I like to get my feet wet, which made PHP very appealing as I could learn as I went, but so far programming languages have proved to be too abstract to keep me interested. I mean the only reason I wanted to learn Java is to have access to a basic API, but there was too much stuff to learn to get to that one functional example. I honestly wouldn't have minded investing the time, but trying to absorb a language using the arbitrary kinds of examples they use just doesn't work for me. If you can't make it practical then I can't make myself sit down and learn it.
puts( "GIVE UNTO ME YOUR MIGHTY COCK FRODO\n" ); puts COCK FRODO\n" puts \n
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Anonymous2007-12-05 16:20
>>29
Actually, it's not that I don't enjoy it, I just don't think that it's taught well. Admittedly, it might not have helped that I was trying to learn it from the documentation. But I'm wasting my breath.
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I'm not from around here, so I'm not going to jump up your ass for recommending one language over another. That said, however, it's languages like C♯ and Java that I always seem to hear about as the 'wave(s) of the future.' Why Lisp over-- Actually, you know what? Nevermind. I don't even want to invite that flamewar. I'll just go read the no doubt scarcely-contained one on the respective Wikipedia articles.
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Anonymous2007-12-05 18:38
>>37
Leaving aside all the reasons Lisp is better, I mostly just recommended it in this instance because Practical Common Lisp is a good book that might appeal to a person who prefers that sort of instruction, since within its pages are 12 practical applications (that you might actually want to use).
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Anonymous2007-12-05 18:48
This should be quite easy to implement. Think IRC with no names whatsoever. The server listens on a port, and when you connect it either creates an empty channel and joins you to it, or joins you to another waiting user's channel.
I wrote a "chatpool" server before, which basically echos what's received from one connection to every other connection.
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Anonymous2007-12-05 18:55
>>38
Fair enough. I'll give it a shot, then. What I really liked about PHP was that I was able to just sit down with the manual, read through the intro to get a handle on the syntax, and then start writing simple things and looking up the functions I needed to accomplish them. For instance, writing a script to tag and search a basic database of all my hentai pictures was how I learned PHP's MySQL functions (and a bit of SQL itself), and the task was as much to further my own understanding as it was to have the end product.
What I don't like, though, is when the author just methodically lays out each piece of the language, with a few trite examples to illustrate the concepts at the end of each chapter. It has a very non-organic feel to it, and I simply don't absorb it that way. I might be able to if I was really determined, but it doesn't strike me as worth it-- not when I know it can be done better.