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> The early web was filled with experimentation. “What if chat rooms looked like comics?” That question sounds wonderfully unreasonable. And yet it was built, shipped, localized into 24 languages, and bundled with Windows 98. This really resonated with me. Too much development work today feels like colouring in predefined boxes. Love to see some software that thought way out of the box and got institutional support.
I added some updates, ignore bots, new expressions, diff message bubble behavior, more panels, custom avatars, colors, etc.
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On occasion I meet one of the creators of that professionally. And then I always think of asking him about it. And then I don't do it.
You should (I assume it's Rands), he clearly does not want to be rembered as a Jerkcity guy now that he's a Serious Palantir Poobah.
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There's a reason why Microsoft didn't use SourceSafe internally, it was an awful version control system even compared to what else was available at the time (CVS and whatnot). For example, it didn't support the concept of "atomic commits". If you tried to commit multiple files at once and one failed to merge, the repo would just update the files that successfully merged and then the developer would have to fix the co…
> it was an awful version control system even compared to what else was available at the time (CVS and whatnot). For example, it didn't support the concept of "atomic commits". Neither did CVS. That was one of the big sellers of Subversion (maybe even the seller) CVS in essence was just remote access to RCS files, where each file was handled independently, which caused lots of trouble to recover a specific state of w…
Hi, I'm Robert Standefer, the guy who made this happen, with lots of support. I'm excited to see the enthusiasm about Comic Chat being open sourced. How this came to happen is a very interesting story that spans a six-year period with success that hinged upon being in the right place at the right time, literally. I want to point out that, while I (along with Scott Hanselman) made the Comic Chat open source release ha…
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HAGHLUABLABG I can't believe this is still going
> HAGHLUABLABG ??
> HUGLAGHALGHALGHAL, interj. An all-purpose sound, denoting the act of performing oral sex, the act of receiving oral sex, taking drugs, writing your Congressman, misdialing your party and getting that annoying series of tones, or sitting perfectly still and making no noise whatsoever.
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HAGHLUABLABG I can't believe this is still going
> HAGHLUABLABG ??
https://www.bonequest.com/tags/cocksucking-noises
(To solve the CAPTCHA: "spigot" is the human face.)