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In Memory of Stiver

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Re: In Memory of Stiver

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Post by znpy »

Kwpolska wrote: post #36
rob74 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That 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?

Why does everyone have to share their real life identity on the Internet? Why do you care?

Many 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.

Re: In Memory of Stiver

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Post by zczc »

danielodievich wrote: post #25
petesergeant wrote: post #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

Nobody will go back. One of more interesting experiences from early 2000s in Microsoft was when Microsoft Russia finally crossed 1B in revenue by finally having Gazprom/Sberbank buy all the sh*t that they were pirating before. By doing so, the country was eligible to do the yearly business review in person, instead of over whatever passed for Zoom back then, I don't remember anymore. Olga D...can't remember her last…

Head of Microsoft Russia was Olga Dergunova.

As for "nobody will go back" - agree in general, but at least Anton Nossik did go back.

Re: In Memory of Stiver

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Post by indrora »

Fernflower is one of the few really powerful java decompilers out there that had good support for the bad bytecode that dex2jar would produce.

I've spent many hours pouring through the output of Fernflower looking for what some obfuscation algorithm has come up with.

Dogspeed, Stiver. Your work, "legitimate" or not, has benefitted the world. o7

Re: In Memory of Stiver

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Post by protomolecule »

usrnm wrote: post #40
throw-the-towel wrote: post #32

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You and your peers remember the Russia of the 1990s, dirt poor, barely avoiding famine, with a completely collapsed society and state. The new emigrants remember the Russia of the 2010s, with classy restaurants, developing infrastructure, cheap housing and whatever consumer goods money can buy, and that's very different. Your experience from 20 years ago does not apply anymore.

To be fair, your experience from 5 years ago is just as irrelevant. Russia under sanctions is very different.

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Re: In Memory of Stiver

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Post by protomolecule »

jojobas wrote: post #37
cyberax wrote: post #26

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Russia has plenty of resources, and is severely under-populated. So yep, it has a huge growth potential. But the political system will have to be reformed first.

And by "reformed", you mean "burnt to the ground, for real this time".

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Re: In Memory of Stiver

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Post by protomolecule »

rob74 wrote: post #28
pk-protect-ai wrote: post #11

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How do you change the political environment in a dictatorship where ruling class has all the power and majority of the money and controls what you should read, watch or talk about?

Well, the Russians already tried it once, more than 100 years ago, with limited success unfortunately...

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Re: In Memory of Stiver

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Post by jojobas »

protomolecule wrote: post #45
jojobas wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And by "reformed", you mean "burnt to the ground, for real this time".

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We had the evil establish in the 1917, and pretend-removed in 1991. It was in hiding for a decade and a bit, and it will only get worse from there.

Re: In Memory of Stiver

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Post by YouWhy »

Here's a man who lived for much of the same ideals as Aaron Swartz, and was able to make a tremendous impact on the Russian internet universe while also laying low and quiet.

I'm awfully sad Stiver passed away before old age, but happy that at least it was not due to adversity.

Re: In Memory of Stiver

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Post by riehwvfbk »

protomolecule wrote: post #49
jojobas wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had the evil establish in the 1917, and pretend-removed in 1991. It was in hiding for a decade and a bit, and it will only get worse from there.

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The ones who think of themselves as "not evil" of course.
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