So old /prog/ is finally dead

http://blog.4chan.org/post/81998248943/goodbye-to-some-old-friends

Over the past 10 years, 4chan has accumulated many features and side-projects, but since the team has rarely consisted of more than myself, a single volunteer developer, and a handful of volunteer moderators, many have been neglected. Specifically the discussion boards (dis.4chan.org) and Fileshares board (rs.4chan.org).[br]Rather than continue to neglect these side-projects, we’ve decided to sunset them so that we can focus our time and energy into maintaining and improving the core of the site—4chan’s image boards.

So it's finally over. All we have left is this shithole. I feel like killing myself.

For the VIPPERs and “expert programmers” among us this may be a sad day, however we hope to accommodate you with some future image board features. Stay tuned.

Haha, no, get fucked, faggot.

On the bright side, this place is more active than last time I visited ye olde /prog/, so the drama has sparked some life into this place.

>>160
Searching around in archives

>>161
Here here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA

I've synced up to the latest /prog/. It didn't take long. There are a few threads I need to review manually to make sure everything is loaded. I only have the first 175 posts from the 1-GET thread for some reason (thread id is 1). Once I'm sure everything is there I'll upload it somewhere. Where do we upload things again? Does archive.org accept submissions?

>>164 I don't think it does but one of the most permanent ways for it to exist would be to use a free google account and upload it there. sounds stupid but works fine.

I finally managed to scrape https://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1 maybe my http parser is fucked, but there were multiple points in that document where tags didn't match up. At some points, the extra starting tags had to be dropped. At other points, the extra ending tags had to be ignored. I eventually parsed the whole thing by making the parser non deterministic in these cases and repeatedly parsing the document until 2948 posts were recovered. It would sometimes get stuck at 66, 175, and 2920. It took about 30 parsings until it made the correct decisions to get all the posts.

I think that was the last thread with errors in it, so I will start compression now.

yay :D

Thank you oniichan, use xz or gzip for compression please and post it in this thread

Here it is

https://archive.org/details/prog-20140418.db

If you sign up for an account you can upload files at archive.org. You need an email to verify but mailinator works, using one of their alternative domains.

If there are issues with the file post here and I'll try again.

it looks like the .xz got mangled. It's a 61MB xz file.

>>169
Thank you!

>>171
(´ ･ω･`)

>>169
Thanks for that!
I tried browsing the 1.4Gb db file with sqlitebrowser. This wasn't a good idea. I could browse the threads table, but the posts table was way too big.
What do you recommend for browsing the database?

>>173
I've been using the command line program, sqlite3, to browse. I haven't written a browser yet. There is another person that has scraped /prog/ and has written a browser. The db schema is a bit different, so some names would need to change in the program or the db. It would be nice to have a browser. And heck once the browser is there, you basically have a sqlite powered text board with all of /prog/'s old content.

My current browsing experience:

$ sqlite3 prog.db
sqlite> select * from threads order by lastbumptime desc limit 5;
1396847195|J programming language |prog|2014-04-07 01:06|2014-04-07 11:44|2014-04-07 11:44|8
1396838670|teledildonics |prog|2014-04-06 22:44|2014-04-07 11:40|2014-04-07 11:40|9
1396882906|That was VIP quality! |prog|2014-04-07 11:01|2014-04-07 11:28|2014-04-07 11:28|2
1304381575|/prog/ Challenge #9002 |prog|2011-05-02 20:12|2014-04-07 11:24|2014-04-07 11:24|75
1339576156|An OPEN letter to Lambda A. Calculus |prog|2012-06-13 04:29|2014-04-07 10:42|2014-04-07 10:42|74
sqlite> select * from threads order by lastbumptime desc limit 5 offset 5;
1396850495|Abelsons fat schlong |prog|2014-04-07 02:01|2014-04-07 03:00|2014-04-07 03:00|5
1360383053|The worst thread of all time |prog|2013-02-08 23:10|2014-04-06 23:10|2014-04-06 23:10|125
1396813424|Trying to get friend back into C++ |prog|2014-04-06 15:43|2014-04-06 21:06|2014-04-06 21:06|12
1369714221|Magical Computing |prog|2013-05-28 00:10|2014-04-06 20:58|2014-04-06 20:58|57
1396648721|4chan now supports video uploads |prog|2014-04-04 17:58|2014-04-06 18:40|2014-04-06 18:40|20
sqlite> select * from posts where threadid=1396847195;
1396847195|1|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 01:06|
J is one of the most widespread programming language with an insane level of difficulty that I personally have ever seen, not including esoteric programming languages (i.e. brainfuck, whitespace).<br/>
<br/>
Are there any languages that /prog/ has found to be widely deployed but insanely difficult to learn? inb4 ASM

1396847195|2|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 01:23|
Programming languages are for faggots. Either learn circuits or fuck off.

1396847195|3|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 08:17|
*bump*

1396847195|4|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 10:44|
<a href="read/prog/1396847195/3">&gt;&gt;3</a><br/>
<i>bump my anus</i><br/>
sage

1396847195|5|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 10:49|
<a href="read/prog/1396847195/2">&gt;&gt;2</a><br/>
Circuits are for faggots. Either learn physics or fuck off.

1396847195|6|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 11:26|
Well, this thread went nowhere. Thanks fuckers.

1396847195|7|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 11:30|
<a href="read/prog/1396847195/5">&gt;&gt;5</a><br/>
Physics is for faggots. Either learn pure mathematics or fuck off.

1396847195|8|Anonymous||| |2014-04-07 11:44|
<a href="read/prog/1396847195/5">&gt;&gt;5</a><br/>
circuits is physics, dolt

sqlite> select * from posts where threadid=1369714221 limit 5;
1369714221|1|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:10|
Would it be possible for a wizard to create a universal Turing machine that had an infinite amount of memory?<br/>
<br/>
Also, if we could master magic, do you think that it would be possible to create a separate pocket universe for a computer, that could perform exhaustive searches of an infinite problem space in a way that would seem instant when observed from this universe?

1369714221|2|Anonymous|mailto:sage|| |2013-05-28 00:17|
if we could master magic, computers would be boring as fuck

1369714221|3|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:19|
<span class="quote">infinite amount of memory<span class="o"></span><br/>
infinite problem space</span><br/>
Ahmed is 5..4..3..

1369714221|4|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:29|
infinite memory errors

1369714221|5|Anonymous|mailto:sage|| |2013-05-28 00:39|
Wouldn't it be interesting if we found a technique to do the latter.

sqlite> select * from posts where threadid=1369714221 limit 5 offset 5;
1369714221|6|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:41|
When the singularity happens (still waiting, Kurzweil and Kaku), I'm going simulate my own private universe where I am a cute little witch and wear cute Touhou dresses, but everyone else is normal. I'll give them hope, then crush their dreams right in front of them, keeping them in perpetual misery. I'll curse them with ambitions, but make those ambitions impossible to fulfill. I'll give them a good life, then smash them right in the middle, just to give them a taste of the happiness that they never have. I'll delude them into thinking that they are free, then reveal to them that they are only my slaves. I'll torture and kill them, just to resurrect them and do it again, until their mind is completely broken and there is no shreds of a human left in them, then discard them and move on to the next victim. I'll make Hell, and condemn those who resent my evil ways to eternal agony. I'll teach them concepts of justice just sneer in their faces as they try to reconcile my words with my actions. I'll reward those who emulate me with riches and power, and punish those who don't with starvation, sickness, and the death of those around them. I'll make them toil for their entire lives to build monuments to my vanity. I'll give them brief reprieves of love and contentment, then kill off everything they loved and leave them wondering what they did wrong.<br/>
<br/>
This will be a very fun and very intellectual game -- I am very much looking forward to it.

1369714221|7|Anonymous|mailto:sage|| |2013-05-28 00:50|
<a href="read/prog/1369714221/6">&gt;&gt;6</a><br/>
G-d is a little girl?

1369714221|8|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:54|
<a href="read/prog/1369714221/6">&gt;&gt;6</a><br/>
You've got some pretty serious issues, YHWH.

1369714221|9|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:58|
<a href="read/prog/1369714221/6">&gt;&gt;6</a><br/>
but once you get to wear the cute dress you would probably stop being angry and wanting to hurt people am I right?

1369714221|10|Anonymous||| |2013-05-28 00:59|
I'm no physician, but I'm pretty sure that quantum mechanics allows for this.

sqlite>

>>173-174
http://bbs.progrider.org/prog/read/1383362137/9
I do not think it needs many modifications

>>174
Where did you get the updated .db? Mine is old.

>>176
Read the thread you dickface

>>177
no bully

>>178
*bullies*

>>179
Reported.

I love how it ended with threads like "Abelsons fat schlong" being all over front-page.

>>181
It's frozen in time like an artifact in a museum, to be remembered as such for the generations to come.

>>181
I wonder if moot opened up /prog/ on the 7^th and saw Abelsons fat schlong, The worst thread of all time, ＡＴＴＥＮＴＩＯＮ： New Meme and decided to kill the last scar Shii left on his precious business.

>>174
If you want I guess I could make an effort to clean up and release the code for the viewer and search engine running at ivasiwlrjq5dxk6b.onion

/prog could have at least gone to its deathbed with its greatest threads on the front page . Now it will be remembered only as the cesspit of shitposting that resulted from its long decline.

It is like putting an emaciated photo of a cancer victim on their coffin. moot has gone too far.

>>185
The J programming language is the greatest thread

>>185

You are wrong. The immortalized front page is objectively the gratest page on page. teledildonics, Abelsons fat schlong, and An OPEN letter to Lambda A calculus will all serve as fine monuments to the old /prog/

'> how do I epic green.txt

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>implying you are not a nigger faggot

newfags can't "GRUNNER"

>>190
You spelled it wrong. Blah now we're going to have a bunch of Fjölnir memes.

As an aside, I have no fucking clue how one pronounces 'ö' followed by 'l'.

>>191
Like the ``irl'' in ``girl'', but with less ``r''.

*
"GRUNNUR"
;

>>188,189
who are you quoting?

>>194
whom not who idiot

>>195
Although whom may be correct, its usage is seen as pretentious in most dialects of English.

>>194
Somebody is so flustered about being told off for quote abuse that he starts necrospamming, amazing.

>>197
I know, it's just like old times.

>>197

Truly a nigger.

>>199
Wherefore?