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Didn't know about that side of his talent. Among broader Russian audience Stiver was known as a maintainer of the largest pirate library in Russian (see https:/
by oytis 2y ago
Didn't know about that side of his talent. Among broader Russian audience Stiver was known as a maintainer of the largest pirate library in Russian (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634780 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634780).
- ptero 2y agoIt is also broader than just Russian and bigger than just pirate. Flibusta has been my go-to source for books for many years.
- myth_drannon 2y agoDidn't realize that! His death sent shocks across the Russian speaking internet because he was the maintainer of Flibusta but noone spoke about his other passion.
- rob74 2y agoThat might explain why the article is so light on personal details - either he asked them to keep them private, or maybe they're not aware of his real identity at all?
- selivanovp 2y agoThey're aware, that's why they presented him as a "German programmer" and completely avoided his flibusta endeavour. The author from JetBrains is Russian himself.
- Kwpolska 2y agoWhy does everyone have to share their real life identity on the Internet? Why do you care?
- znpy 2y agoMany people base their judgment of somebody on the person’s ideals rather than actual accomplishments. My gut feeling is that gp wanted to evaluate Stiver on something else rather than personal accomplishments. It’s another sign of the performative society we live into, where work and accomplishments don’t matter but virtue signalling does.
- rob74 2y agoFunny that you're judging me by assuming that I want to judge him. It just struck me as unusual (and a bit sad) to see this obituary without anything personal. But I don't feel in any way "entitled" to get any personal details, far from it...
- hnisoss 2y agorelated https://sive.rs/anon https://sive.rs/anon
- Kwpolska 2y ago> If you defiantly refuse to say who you are, it can make people angry that you’re upsetting social reciprocity. You know who they are, but they don’t know who you are. It feels rude. An obsessive personality might make it their damn mission to figure out who you are! To be frank, fuck them. I’m not inventing an entire persona and stuff just to make some weirdos happy.