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I stopped using IRC several years ago. There are so many features in a multi-person chat that's lagging behind. Jabbr ( http://www.jabbr.net ) is a good replacement for IRC, with features such as offline history, and embedded content (for code snippets, etc.)
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Try reading beyond the title?
or even reading the title, as typically "___ is dead, long live ___" doesnt mean the ___ is dead
As such, I believe the second part of the title refers to an adapting ("new") form of IRC. As mentioned in the article, projects to add video chat support and the likes. The old IRC is dead (well, dying at least by the looks of it), a new adapted version is the future. [According to the article]
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or even reading the title, as typically "___ is dead, long live ___" doesnt mean the ___ is dead
Well, it _does_. The second part is implied to refer to a different incarnation of it. Eg the original use "Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!" ("The king is dead, long live the king") refers to the previous king dying and a new one ascending the throne. As such, I believe the second part of the title refers to an adapting ("new") form of IRC. As mentioned in the article, projects to add video chat support and the likes.…
I work at google campus in london, an office for startups. Many weeks ago, somebody suggested on our yammer (business social network) that we should set up an irc channel for the people who work here. The general response was along the lines of 'that still exists?', 'hey, I heard windows 3.0 is being released', etc. Shame, because I find irc to still be the best chat I've ever used. Their response was also weird, sin…
Today's new tech startups are run by people who missed the time window when IRC was popular. They grew up with web based chats and instant messengers.
The people who go "into tech" during college because they saw Mark Zuckerberg making dumptrucks full of money probably don't know what IRC is, but the people who had to get into IRC chats to figure out how to make linux work on our hardware (like me, and most of my peers) absolutely grew up with IRC.
I grew up having friends that I met solely on IRC, and having it be a staple of the way that I communicated with certain groups of people; it's the same story with most of the people I hang out with.
There are tons of alternatives, but none with the simple ubiquity of IRC.
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Today's new tech startups are run by people who missed the time window when IRC was popular. They grew up with web based chats and instant messengers.
yep. for some context: One of the first times Zuckerberg and I (Mark Andreessen) got together, in 2005 or 2006, he stopped me in the middle of conversation and asked: “What did Netscape do?” http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_andreessen/all/1
He's asking what netscape the group, as in the people building the software did, not what the software did.
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If it wasn't for one irc channel, I don't think I would have made it through the first 2 years of programming. Didn't bother them to much (i hope), but just to understand pointers and that at the start, with C, and other things, really helped. 12 years on and wouldn't wanna do anything else.
##C on freenode?
> "How do I allocate a string?"
> "But what is a string?"
> "You know that thing with letters in it. Seriously how do I allocate a string?"
> "Sorry we don't know what a string is, you'll need to define it for us first"
> "OK it's a contiguous chunk of bytes in RAM"
> "Sorry C has no concept of bytes or RAM."
That kind of impractical nonsense.