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Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by jacquesm »

wyclif wrote: post #71
avree wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have it wrong. The man behind _why deleted his online presence because he grew tired of the persona and everything around it. At that point, people began searching for _why. This culminated in a Slate article that openly divulged his identity. 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 bro…

First, many of us knew _why's identity long before that Slate article. In the Ruby community, _why was a little like Santa Claus for a while. Just because people were protective of him and didn't want to divulge his identity doesn't mean they didn't know. Second, I think you're attributing motives to _why that none of us can possibly know. He's never discussed his rationale for leaving, so I try not to project motive…

Let's also not assume that stalking the guy like this is A-Ok because he didn't say you couldn't.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by lsb »

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…

Désolée = sorry, in French.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by pygy_ »

pm wrote: post #59
fogus wrote: post #33

Here's hoping he wants Potion back. http://www.github.com/fogus/potion

Agreed, I really liked where it was going.

The language was (is) pretty cool.

I really liked the idea of scoped mixins, that would have allowed to extend any object locally (like, say, add unit conversion methods to numbers), without polluting the whole program. It was never implemented AFAIK.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by pygy_ »

lsb wrote: post #113
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…

Désolée = sorry, in French.

As said by a woman. Males would say "Désolé".

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by pretoriusB »

tsewlliw wrote: post #43
detst wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> 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.

>If doing something makes some people behave like creeps, its generally the fault of the creeps.

That's not correct. If a woman/man comes naked in class, people WILL stare. And it's not their fault, nor is it "creepy", it's only natural.

In any case, this is not what we're dealing with here. Nothing creepy about noticing a website re-activated.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by Cacen »

wyclif wrote: post #83
tomasien wrote: post #10

Could someone explain the significance of this for us who don't know? I'd really appreciate it!

"Hello, friends and uncles!" https://vimeo.com/5047563

while watching this I noticed that the kid in the "tech today live" video mentions his live stream being "usually at saturdays at four pm-." I was unable to make out the rest of what he says, it's around 12:35-12:45 if you would like to hear it yourself. I feel like _why referenced this in SPOOL/DESOLEE with "April the 18th from like four o clock to let's say twelve." April 18th of 2009 (the year this video was made) was a saturday and I'm assuming what I couldn't make out from "tech today live" was some variation of "to twelve." so, "saturday from like four o clock to twelve."

though, even I, am unable to buy into my own crazy theories. I might be insane! I tend to be terrible at these things too.

not quite related to this video, but something I found humorous was the picture he used in SPOOL/DESOLEE http://i.imgur.com/gJR6b.png not too sure but it looks like dogs racing.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by jere »

PommeDeTerre wrote: post #48
bulletmagnet wrote: post #32

Am 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 kind of drama is DHH known for besides being opinionated? And you're saying he's better known for such drama than he is for Rails?
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