Am I the only one who finds this guy's affectations more than slightly annoying?
My impression is he is simply doing his thing, can hardly be blamed for the hype surrounding him.
_why's site is back up
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#102Guys, 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.
I agree with all the other comments here. You're trying to be that guy who eschews curiosity in an attempt to be mature, but that is not and never has been the type of mentality that leads to success, be it in software or any other field. Curiosity leads to creativity, and creativity leads to success. To swim against the current on this one is hardly admirable.
I disagree with the grandparent, but I think your reason does not make sense. Good manners and success are orthogonal by design.
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#103I'm still getting 'Public Print Queue SPOOL/DESOLEE 2012-01-06T08:21Z'
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#104I keep wanting to look into ruby, but every time I hear about these personalities involved, It turns me off.
That's why my mom doesn't like rap music. Some of the people say curses and they talk about sex. It's also probably not worth visiting Texas because Bush lives there.
> Some of the people say curses
And sometimes those curses come true. Like they say, "Fuck you!" and then you finally get laid.
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#105I keep wanting to look into ruby, but every time I hear about these personalities involved, It turns me off.
You can get as much out of the community as you want to, the language doesn't force you to adopt what the community believes is right. With any language you have the freedom to write want you want to write, pick from the sources you feel are the best.
I don't think that's the issue. The issue is that if a community is represented by a few key figures that share traits that you do not enjoy or seek in a community (in this particular case; generating a lot of drama), it's very hard to overlook. It's like getting a bad first impression, only a bit more continuous.
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#106Am I the only one who finds this guy's affectations more than slightly annoying?
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…
What is the "Ruby community", exactly? The set of programmers whose language of choice in certain cases (the web, scripting) is Ruby?
Once you ascribe cult-like groupthink and behavior to a diverse and disconnected group of people who happen to write code in the same language, "leaders" of the cult will emerge from the noise. If you think DHH is some worshipped leader of Ruby programmers, you should read the GitHub comment threads on some of his changes to Rails.
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#107Hooray for _why! :D Found a fourth PCL: http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/YOU http://www.scribd.com/doc/119153889/You
This YOU PCL now returns a 404 error.
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#108I 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.c…
Note the wrong date also. We are in 2013 now...
Re: _why's site is back up
#109Guys, 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.
I agree with all the other comments here. You're trying to be that guy who eschews curiosity in an attempt to be mature, but that is not and never has been the type of mentality that leads to success, be it in software or any other field. Curiosity leads to creativity, and creativity leads to success. To swim against the current on this one is hardly admirable.
When I ask myself what curiosity leads to, the first thing that pops into my head is the 80s commercial for The National Enquirer:
"Inquiring minds want to know!"
Which probably has the lowest correlation to entrepreneurial success as anything else. Curiosity about business or how the world works is different from curiosity about gossip. Gossip is unactionable to any positive outcome.
Re: _why's site is back up
#110Am I the only one who finds this guy's affectations more than slightly annoying?
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…
1. Get into a community not particularly known for its maturity.
2. Become semi-famous in said community by publishing a few puzzles and an intro book about programming. Doesn't have to be particularly insightful, mind blowing or even good by common standards as long as it's "quirky" and light hearted.
3. Become a cult symbol by dropping off the internet.
4. Come back after a few years and receive a Second Coming treatment.
5. ???
6. Profit!!!
(Of course I don't think this is an elaborate scheme by this guy and I see nothing wrong in his actions. I am only perplexed and turned off by the drama-seeking mentality of the (supposedly) rational, left-brained individuals that are expected to populate a programming community).