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Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by unreal37 »

1qaz2wsx3edc wrote: post #39
w1ntermute wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's transcriptions of the texts. There might be some errors, please post corrections (make sure they are transcription errors, and not errors from the original document - there are quite a few of those, perhaps intentional). On Pastebin: Ideas: http://pastebin.com/WSfmLDA5 Life tips: http://pastebin.com/PTF4cfDJ Test: http://pastebin.com/BExqVKpv -------------- Full texts (same as Pastebin): -------------- IDEAS F…

The numbers are interesting: 70 years $3 $1 $3 $4 XXX 50 $3 $12 $3

The "50" actually says "50c" in the text, not $50.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by jarin »

phillmv wrote: post #78
lazydon wrote: post #62

Oh my, did't know what was this all about. Just checked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff This _why guy is like Elvis/Garbo of the Ruby world. Can somebody share more about some specific inspiring stuff _why did that makes him such an important figure in Ruby community: Matz -> Ruby DHH -> Rails _why -> ?

He single handedly made everyone in the Ruby community feel a little more special and fun and light hearted and quirky. Kind of the opposite of a brogrammer.

I loved when he would post up interesting code snippets, but he would make them animated gifs so you actually had to type them in.

And hoodwink.d was really fun while it lasted (it was kind of a secret club that you had to explore and figure out some simple tech problems to get into).

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by jinfiesto »

slurry wrote: post #66
PommeDeTerre wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Ruby community's attitude toward him is absurd, along with the personality cults they've formed around David Heinemeier Hansson and Zed Shaw. 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 t…

With regard to why: 1) Drama: fair point. 2) Personality cult: Not as sure. I've seen more than one newb told "don't waste your time" on the Poignant guide in Ruby forums. why's weakness as a coder is pretty widely recognized. In my opinion maybe over-estimated, esp. relative to people like DHH. 3) To me - I learned Ruby when Rails was in its infancy and the Agile salesmen had barely just hitched their wagon to it -…

I wouldn't say _why is a "weak" coder per say. His style is just as eccentric as his character. He's certainly not conventional, and much of his code is slow, but the ideas are often interesting and beautiful. He also abuses a lot of Ruby's metaprogramming facilities. He obviously coded because it amused him. I think that's probably what resulted in the "weaknesses" in his style.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by SyneRyder »

danso wrote: post #2

Getting this: "Public Print Queue SPOOL/TEST 2012-12-09T14:12Z SPOOL/IDEAS 2012-12-13T23:26Z SPOOL/NOTES 2012-12-19T00:28Z"

I'm getting this instead: "Public Print Queue SPOOL/DESOLEE 2012-01-06T08:21Z"

I don't get any binary data from test, ideas or notes.

/SPOOL/DESOLEE gives me a binary file that seems to open in OpenPCLViewer on my Mac (gives a 2 page file) but it's completely unreadable, like a fragment of a corrupted binary image. I don't know if that's how the file is meant to look or if it's a bug in the reader.

I do note that "désolée" is the French word for sorry.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by PLejeck »

SyneRyder wrote: post #95
danso wrote: post #2

Getting this: "Public Print Queue SPOOL/TEST 2012-12-09T14:12Z SPOOL/IDEAS 2012-12-13T23:26Z SPOOL/NOTES 2012-12-19T00:28Z"

I'm getting this instead: "Public Print Queue SPOOL/DESOLEE 2012-01-06T08:21Z" I don't get any binary data from test, ideas or notes. /SPOOL/DESOLEE gives me a binary file that seems to open in OpenPCLViewer on my Mac (gives a 2 page file) but it's completely unreadable, like a fragment of a corrupted binary image. I don't know if that's how the file is meant to look or if it's a bug in the reader. I do note that "dé…

I loaded /SPOOL/DESOLEE, converted to PDF with GhostPCL

Here's the scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/119155590/DESOLEE

Transcriptified: This printer queue is going down for _MAINTENANCE_ but will shortly return for a day I believe it will be on the day of April the 18th from like four o clock to lets say twelve.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by zacharyvoase »

HTTP headers indicate it's being hosted from GitHub pages.

I've confirmed this by looking up the DNS records for the domain; they point to 204.232.175.78 which is the (or an) address of pages.github.com: http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/204.232.175.78

I can't immediately figure out what repo this is being hosted from; a code search for 'DESOLEE' doesn't show anything, so I'm assuming it's a private repo. But at least we know there are git commits happening.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by usmanity »

zacharyvoase wrote: post #97

HTTP headers indicate it's being hosted from GitHub pages. I've confirmed this by looking up the DNS records for the domain; they point to 204.232.175.78 which is the (or an) address of pages.github.com: http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/204.232.175.78 I can't immediately figure out what repo this is being hosted from; a code search for 'DESOLEE' doesn't show anything, so I'm assuming it's a private repo. But at least…

Could be a private repo.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by PLejeck »

I think _why is watching us as we watch him.

The first three files had spool dates

   SPOOL/TEST     2012-12-09T14:12Z
   SPOOL/IDEAS    2012-12-13T23:26Z
   SPOOL/NOTES    2012-12-19T00:28Z
The latest?

   SPOOL/DESOLEE  2012-01-06T08:21Z
I suspect this may have been around for a month, while he waited for somebody to notice it. Then, when we noticed, he swapped in the new one.

Also, according to the converted DESOLEE (http://www.scribd.com/doc/119155590/DESOLEE) file, something's happening on April 18, "from like four o clock to lets say twelve"

Edit: Apparently there was also a SPOOL/YOU

No idea the timestamp on that one, but it seemed to be just before SPOOL/DESOLEE

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by [deleted] »

zacharyvoase wrote: post #97

HTTP headers indicate it's being hosted from GitHub pages. I've confirmed this by looking up the DNS records for the domain; they point to 204.232.175.78 which is the (or an) address of pages.github.com: http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/204.232.175.78 I can't immediately figure out what repo this is being hosted from; a code search for 'DESOLEE' doesn't show anything, so I'm assuming it's a private repo. But at least…

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