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by chipx86 1y ago
Hi, one of the authors of DiffX here. I didn't expect to find this on Hacker News tonight. I'm going to try to address some of the reasoning behind DiffX here, and answer a few things that have come up in the comments. I'll s
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by chipx86 2y ago
I love that! Thanks for sharing that with me :) It made my day. Looking forward to the second part! If you're on really any of the current social platforms, I'd love to connect. I'm chipx86 everywhere. I still develop Review
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by chipx86 2y ago
We first built interdiffs in Review Board [ https://www.reviewboard.org ] way back in 2006 (in fact I think I may have coined the term, or arrived at it independently). It's still my favorite part of the product and my proces
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by chipx86 2y ago
This was a hard-learned lesson for young me.
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by chipx86 2y ago
Early in my career — and in my teens — I was doing web design for local businesses. It was the late 90s/early 2000s, and the Internet was taking off, and people wanted websites. I have plenty of stories from this era, but today, I&#x27
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by chipx86 4y ago
Very cool! Which client did you write? I had forgotten they tried to standardize the protocol! Yeah, it was surprisingly easy. Connect to the switchboard server, set up sessions from there, and then it's all MIME. We even implemented a
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by chipx86 4y ago
I used to work on Gaim/Pidgin (and in fact created libgaim/libpurple) back in my college days. It was easier for us to build and maintain back then. We had push-back from some of the companies (Yahoo being notoriously aggressive a
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by chipx86 4y ago
Alma in midtown, and it was pretty noticeable here. I'm on the second floor and for the first time in ages, I didn't think it was just Caltrain.
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by chipx86 4y ago
I'm using the fork here: https://github.com/magnusviri/stable-diffusion.git (apple-silicon-mps-support branch). Pretty easy to set up, though I had to take all the Homebrew stuff out of my environment before setti
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by chipx86 5y ago
Hi! Yep, I think you're right :) That sparks a memory.
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by chipx86 5y ago
Indeed. Originally it was "GAIM" (due to the original purpose being a GTK+ AOL Instant Messenger client), which AOL wasn't thrilled about. We changed it to "Gaim", which I think they had less of a problem with, or a
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by chipx86 5y ago
This was a problem even back when Gaim (now Pidgin) was at peak popularity. I used to be a dev on the team, and we had our accounts banned all the time. Some of the IM services didn't mind us being there (MSN seemed more than fine with
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by chipx86 5y ago
The source code, along with all other assets, were sold to Symantec in the late 90s. My uncle doesn’t have any copies of it, and so much time has passed that there aren’t any contacts at Symantec to ask (if Symantec even preserved the sourc
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by chipx86 5y ago
Thanks for understanding :) It's on my task list for the holidays.
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by chipx86 5y ago
That's a shame :/ Looks like I commented on that thread way back then. And I think my comment there was at least mostly correct. I was always under the impression that much of the core of the product, the interesting bits, was don
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by chipx86 5y ago
I plan to, but I want to run it by my family before I commit to a permanent record on archive.org. They're fine with sharing when it comes up, but, you know, due diligence.
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by chipx86 5y ago
There are no strings to pull. The company was sold to Symantec back in the late 90s, I believe, and he retired (for the most part). At that point, he no longer had the source code. Symantec eventually closed it down. Given the state of thin
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by chipx86 5y ago
This was a wonderful surprise. DESQview (and anything early Quarterdeck) holds a special place in my heart. My uncle, Gary Pope, co-founded the company. I grew up with DESQview and QEMM as two of our primary pieces of software running on ou
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by chipx86 6y ago
When I was first learning about network programming, I used to pour over your guide (hosted locally on a Chico State account at the time, if I remember correctly), absorbing every detail I could fit into my young mind. That was... more year
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by chipx86 6y ago
That's correct, and I've verified it with modern versions of pip for Python 2.7 and 3.x. `pip2.7 install -U pip` just grabs pip 20.3.4 and installs it, ignoring pip 21.0. pip and the legacy easy_install both access the "simpl
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by chipx86 6y ago
This typo-laden response brought to you by Very Little Sleep. If it wasn't obvious, libgaim became libpurple, not the other way around. Too late to edit the parent comment, but felt I should clear that up.
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by chipx86 6y ago
So, aside from Jabber, IRC, and the AIM TOC protocol (which was the weaker version — we used OSCAR, which was not open), we had to reverse-engineer most of the protocols, and keep up-to-date with changes. Often these services actively tried
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by chipx86 6y ago
It was.
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by chipx86 6y ago
I worked on Pidgin (Gaim, at the time), and was the original author of libpurple (now libgaim). Adium was a sister project that was originally completely different, but utilized some of our Protocol Plugins (aka prpls — basis for the name &
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by chipx86 6y ago
I build Review Board ( https://www.reviewboard.org/ , https://github.com/reviewboard/reviewboard ), an open source code review tool built on top of Django. It used to be a side project to fill what was at
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by chipx86 7y ago
This is awesome. ZZT was huge for me when I was young. I had already been toying with making games and desktop programs in VisualBasic by the time I found ZZT, but the ability to just throw together little worlds and play with the basic pri
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by chipx86 7y ago
Thanks!
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by chipx86 7y ago
I'm very glad to hear that :) Took your suggestion and updated the webpage!
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by chipx86 7y ago
I've updated the website and GitHub to point to GtkInspector as the successor. Hopefully that helps!
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by chipx86 7y ago
Ah yes, I remember this. We did see it and looked into it at the time (and I've just gone over it again). It's really a different problem than it seems. Not a security issue, but I can see where it'd look like it. Kind of a t

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