As esr so eloquently puts it in How To Become A Hacker[1]: The problem with screen names or handles deserves some amplification. Concealing your identity behind a handle is a juvenile and silly behavior characteristic of crackers, warez d00dz, and other lower life forms. Hackers don't do this; they're proud of what they do and want it associated with their real names. So if you have a handle, drop it. In the hacker culture it will only mark you as a loser.
So if you guys and girls want to get respect as programmers, you'd better use your real names from here on out.
I know IHBT, but what he really means is "real programmers are not pseudonymous". I'm sure esr accepts there are hackers who share useful contributions like sleep sort and Fibonacci butt sort without wanting ``respect'' or internet fame.
>>122
Giflib, other than that, nothing notable. Well, he was on the board for VA Linux, but right after he made his blog post claiming to be a millionaire and that people had better not piss a rich man off, it crashed and burned.
>>124
Yes, this is really a thing. http://www.catb.org/esr/software.html sng
This tool enables you to decompile PNGs into an information-preserving .sng text format that you can hack with a text editor. Then you can recompile the .sng back to a .png — handy if you need to add or edit some obscure ancillary PNG chunk that your graphics tools don't understand. Also handy if you want to generate PNGs programmatically using text tools.
>>125
I doubt it. This guy really is just a narcissist.
>>125
What exactly is wrong with being pseudonymous?
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Anonymous2013-01-23 15:26
>>125
Take following example:
1. a few years ago you asked idiotic questions on stakoverflow and posted antisemitic defamation on stormfront, about how google spies over it's users and Sergey Brin is a cocksucking kike - all using your real name.
2. now you're applying to google for a job.
3. interviewer will lookup your name, quickly finding that you're incompetent (asking questions on stakoverflow) and poses problem for company security, due to your hatred of Jewish CEOs and big corporations. Interviewer will also find that you write Lisp (antisocial language, only complete jerks and assholes use), which will be the last argument against employing you.
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Anonymous2013-01-23 15:29
>>129
Next you will try applying for a gamedev, hollywood or TV job, only to find that your collection of illegally downloaded torrents (you use your real name for piratebay account, right?) servers against you.
>>130
Then they will find out that you post on /prog/, 4chan's infamous haven for pedophiles, racists, terrorists and Lispers, and they will promptly report you to the authorities.
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Anonymous2013-01-23 16:35
Obviously, if you created a popular open source project or made some valuable contribution, than there is not much point in hiding. Otherwise, who cares?
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Anonymous2013-01-23 16:38
being anonymous keeps you from stroking your ego and letting your e-fame go to your head
>>133
People create distinct and recognizable personas here on /prog/ all the time, which save for the impersonation shenanigans, might as well have a tripcode tacked on top.
>>135 pedophiles, racists, terrorists
Actually that's all of the resident JEWS pedophiles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6TmsNGPPHU racists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe9KN2V5xQ8 terrorists
Don't even need a video for that, 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Freedom Flotilla and really too many to list here: all exist as proof of jewish terrorism.
>>138
I'm sorry if your substandard language doesn't have a proper numerical tower and thus no way of accurately representing fractions without awkward third party libraries, ``faggot''.
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Anonymous2013-01-23 19:59
>>137
Why the fuck would kikes attack a building full of kike bankers, located in the city that's home to biggest kike community outside Israel?
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* (type-of 123) | <interactive>:1:0: Not in scope: `typeof'
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on any given day upwards of 100,000 people could be inside the towers. NIST estimated that approximately 17,400 civilians were in the World Trade Center complex at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks.[9] Turnstile counts from the Port Authority indicate that the number of people typically in the Twin Towers by 10:30 am was 14,154.[10] 2,977 fatalities
Quite sad, but in some ways lucky, it might have been 30 x that number... Also stats on the resulting wars..? Or are they all classified?
ah nevermind.. total of 4,486 U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2012 Opinion Research Business survey 1,033,000 deaths as a result of the conflict March 2003 to August 2007 WikiLeaks. Classified Iraq war logs[1][4][5][6] 109,032 deaths including 66,081 civilian deaths.[7][8] January 2004 to December 2009 The Lancet study's figure of 654,965 excess deaths through the end of June 2006 is based on household survey data. The estimate is for all excess violent and nonviolent deaths. That also includes those due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, etc. 601,027 deaths (range of 426,369 to 793,663 using a 95% confidence interval) were estimated to be due to violence. 31% of those were attributed to the Coalition, 24% to others, 46% unknown. The causes of violent deaths were gunshot (56%), car bomb (13%), other explosion/ordnance (14%), airstrike (13%), accident (2%), unknown (2%). A copy of a death certificate was available for a high proportion of the reported deaths (92% of those households asked to produce one).
what if the 'terrorists' also had some reason to attack? ...well they would, wouldn't they? It might not be a very good reason, but what reasons really are..? --both sides acted atrociously-- in my humble opinion
Being that the actual number of 'combatants' would've been a tiny fraction of the population (at least to begin with... no telling now / into the future..) Couldn't you have just taken 'some action ?' that would benefit the general populus and nullified the threat? ^^
>>150 total of 4,486 U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2012 1,033,000 deaths as a result of the conflict
That's a 1-to-230 death kill ratio. God damn, I didn't realize we were so efficient.
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Anonymous2013-01-24 6:33
>>155
Most of the deaths are result of the war. Similarly, Nazi Germany lost most not during the war, but after it, when everything collapsed.
Don't classify someone as "untrustworthy" just because they have let you down once or twice before. Learn not to hold on to the past too much because it can hinder your ability to trust people in the future (see 'Warnings').
Ridiculous.
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Anonymous2013-01-24 7:01
>>158
You're just anti-Semite. Jews may let you down countless times, but not trusting them would be racism and discrimination, which may hinder your ability to trust Jews in the future.
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Anonymous2013-01-24 7:42
>>160
I will weep if you tell me you're serious about what you've written.