In Memory of Stiver
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In Memory of Stiver
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#2Didn'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).
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#3Back in the day, I had to deal with some poorly documented closed source Java applications (e.g. IBM WebSphere). Tools like Fernflower and its precursors were invaluable to fill the gaps.
Thank you, Stiver, and R.I.P.
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#4Didn'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 ).
It is also broader than just Russian and bigger than just pirate. Flibusta has been my go-to source for books for many years.
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#5Back in the day, I had to deal with some poorly documented closed source Java applications (e.g. IBM WebSphere). Tools like Fernflower and its precursors were invaluable to fill the gaps. Thank you, Stiver, and R.I.P.
I worked on WebSphere back in the day. There were a lot of pre-compiled libraries provided by other IBM teams. I too made good use of decompilers (probably jad at the time) as it was often easier than trying to track down the source.
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#6Back in the day, I had to deal with some poorly documented closed source Java applications (e.g. IBM WebSphere). Tools like Fernflower and its precursors were invaluable to fill the gaps. Thank you, Stiver, and R.I.P.
I worked on WebSphere back in the day. There were a lot of pre-compiled libraries provided by other IBM teams. I too made good use of decompilers (probably jad at the time) as it was often easier than trying to track down the source.
I also had a huge library of decompiled Websphere libraries. IBM was always sending patches and we would go "ok, what does this do?" "Fixes your problem?""How""Really well." So it got decompiled to see what it did.
There were lots of "We think your patch is doing XYZZY, we see where our code should be doing that. We've updated our code and the problem went away."
Fernflower was awesome. RIP Stiver, glioblastoma can be an ugly way to die.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I worked on WebSphere back in the day. There were a lot of pre-compiled libraries provided by other IBM teams. I too made good use of decompilers (probably jad at the time) as it was often easier than trying to track down the source.
I also had a huge library of decompiled Websphere libraries. IBM was always sending patches and we would go "ok, what does this do?" "Fixes your problem?""How""Really well." So it got decompiled to see what it did. There were lots of "We think your patch is doing XYZZY, we see where our code should be doing that. We've updated our code and the problem went away." Fernflower was awesome. RIP Stiver, glioblastoma can b…
> glioblastoma can be an ugly way to die.
He opted for an assisted suicide: https://flibusta.is/node/684900.
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#8> a German programmer of Russian origin
I wonder how much of a boom Russia will see from émigrés returning home if the political environment lets up a little
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#9> a German programmer of Russian origin I wonder how much of a boom Russia will see from émigrés returning home if the political environment lets up a little
Not much. Russia is a country of just 140M people. With wider availability of education/etc. size of population matters more and more.
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#10> a German programmer of Russian origin I wonder how much of a boom Russia will see from émigrés returning home if the political environment lets up a little
Most likely Stiver emigrated in the 90s for economic reasons -- Russia was in shambles. There are about 11 millions of emigrants of Russian origin [0], but I highly doubt that many will come back even if tomorrow we get a new liberal president.
[0] https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/WMR-2022.pdf