I didn’t know /prog/ still existed. I used to post on world4ch back in the day (starting around 2005).
How is everyone doing? Is it still the same group of shitposters, or are you new?
If you were here from back in the day, just know that world4ch got me into programming, despite all the shitposting. Now I’m a software developer. Not that anyone cares.
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Anonymous2018-04-11 17:23
Well, now that I think about it, maybe it was 2006-2007. The first board I went to was /o/, then /g/. Then /prog and /lounge/.
>>1 I'm here, also used to poast back on w4c. It's a trainwreck now and only nostlagia keeps me here. The old /prague/ also got me into programming, first with HTDP and later SICP.
Where have all the people gone? Are they dead? Do they write java?
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Anonymous2018-04-12 7:33
>>12 current /prague/ celebrities are Cudder, Nikita, FrozenAnus, Mentifex and mental-midget-kun. most of them were there on progrider, a few were on w4c.
>>13 >current /prague/ celebrities are Cudder, Nikita, FrozenAnus, Mentifex and mental-midget-kun. most of them were there on progrider, a few were on w4c. You know, anus-baka, every single one of them posted in w4c. Or do you really believe some random guys found the w4c progrider spinoff by trying random urls?
Or do you really believe some random guys found the w4c progrider spinoff by trying random urls?
Or they could have found it by using google the site's the first thing that comes up when you search for stuff like: prog bbs, sicp snake, world4ch, cloveros, and "nikita sadkov" hamster
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Anonymous2018-04-14 10:51
yeah i google ``"HAX MY ANUS" site:*chan*'' daily to discover autismic communities
I found this place by googling it because someone described it as a programming board more culturally related to /jp/ than /g/. I visited "4chans textboards" as I knew them a few times before but never hung around a lot.
The text board community is too fragmented as it is. Do we really need yet another site? There are currently like a dozen text boards with maybe a dozen regular posters. This will just further divide everyone.
And let’s not forget the fact that many of these sites come and go very quickly. And many fail to properly filter spam or moderate bad posts.
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Anonymous2018-04-17 17:15
>fail to properly filter spam or moderate bad posts.
I am thinking on experimenting with some machine learning here. That should be fun! The machine does not even need to know anything about the user, just flag some posts.
>>61 you can integrate spamassassin with your BBS software for good enough performance
spamassassin does naive Bayes classification which can learn from posts that were deleted by a the moderator
the nature of naive Bayes would make it extremely good at filtering repetitive shitposts—dubs checks, hax my anus, Mentifex, etc. of course it can't capture high level natural language semantics. for that you'd need some monstrous 20 GB neural net running on $10k worth of nvidia cards just to filter out Nikita Sadkov rants on your nonprofit BBS.
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Anonymous2018-04-17 19:59
>>66 Bayes classification? spamassassin? What year is it?
>>67 yeah I know what tensorflow is faggot. I use it at work daily. you use the right tool for the job. for a BBS that you're not making money from, you use the cheap stuff. spamassassin takes almost no memory and can run on a free t2.micro instance.
>>67 Why would I need that when I have my own SageMaker?
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Anonymous2018-04-18 6:24
>>66 but anus haxing, dubs checks and other repetitive memes are essentail to /prog culture!
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Anonymous2018-04-18 7:31
Group poasts by IP addresses or whatever. To determine whether a new poast is spam, calculate entropy of it, along with the five poasts, based on the number of distinct words and/of distinct letters.