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In under an hour, a status message is enough to garner many comments and speculation. Kudos to you, _why.
Am I the only one who finds this guy's affectations more than slightly annoying?
Guys, unless he actually unveils something, just let this lie. _why did some great stuff, but he's just a man (and he wants to be left alone). If he plans on doing something, then let him, and let's discuss it if he does. But this is getting ridiculous and this sleuthing/snooping is uncomfortable. He renewed his domain name. We should be better than making this into news.
> But this is getting ridiculous and this sleuthing/snooping is uncomfortable. Maybe it is but it's pretty clear from the other posts in this thread (posted about the time you posted this) that this is the reaction he was expecting. This is him "doing something". If he didn't want people to snoop he wouldn't have given them something to snoop into.
This remark is rather parallel to "she shouldn't dress that way...". If doing something makes some people behave like creeps, its generally the fault of the creeps. And if the would be mystery man is prepping something, I'd rather he unveiled it than a cabal of creepers.
Am I the only one who finds this guy's affectations more than slightly annoying?
Guys, unless he actually unveils something, just let this lie. _why did some great stuff, but he's just a man (and he wants to be left alone). If he plans on doing something, then let him, and let's discuss it if he does. But this is getting ridiculous and this sleuthing/snooping is uncomfortable. He renewed his domain name. We should be better than making this into news.
No. _why is not a man, it is a persona. Whoever it is that is behind the persona _why can continue to operate as a private citizen in whatever manner he wants. However, when _why does something, it is going to be noticed and talked about.
"A guy with an an enormous chin has the chin surgically removed and is promptly married." Classic _why, if you ask me...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We should be better than making this into news. So the most favored Rubyist has returned from hiding with a fun new puzzle. Further down, folks are posting interesting stuff about it. But the finger wagging – people just can't get enough of telling people what they should do and feel. And apparently that's what they want, for behold this top comment.
Yup, you caught me. My point though, is that _why has made it clear that he wants to be left alone, and this HN endeavour seems to violate that. Maybe you're right and it is a new puzzle. And maybe he's back. (For what it's worth I posted that before most of the investigation.) Nevertheless though, given _why's wishes, this makes me uncomfortable, and I don't think it's unreasonable for me to acknowledge that.
That, is of course, crossing the line. If someone wants to distance themselves from an online tag, they should be allowed to in peace.
Now, however, it seems that he's brought that persona back to life. He's posted a new puzzle, and brought his site back. Obviously, he wouldn't do that if he still "just wanted to be left alone." That's why people are excited.
Am I the only one who finds this guy's affectations more than slightly annoying?
While other programming language communities have their notable figures, there is never as much outright drama surrounding them as we find in the Ruby community. In fact, these Ruby figures are now better known for the drama surrounding them than they are for any software they might've written.
It's really quite strange.
"A guy with an an enormous chin has the chin surgically removed and is promptly married." Classic _why, if you ask me...
Getting this: "Public Print Queue SPOOL/TEST 2012-12-09T14:12Z SPOOL/IDEAS 2012-12-13T23:26Z SPOOL/NOTES 2012-12-19T00:28Z"
Telnetting in and GETting '/' got a github pages error, so looks like it's hosted there? Confirming, the domain now has an A record to a github IP.
$ curl -I http://whytheluckystiff.net
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: GitHub.com
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 04:37:51 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 109
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:31:03 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Expires: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:37:51 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=86400
Accept-Ranges: bytes