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Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by mitchty »

thiderman wrote: post #105
callumjones wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've been using ruby for about or over now not sure any longer 10 years. I ignore the general ruby community most of the time, you can too it isn't hard.

You can ignore the ruby community at large and still be productive. I don't see why (pun intended) if you don't use rails, you care about DHH, or Zed or whatever.

If you're unable to overlook _why as a fun programmer who happens to program ruby, I guess thats ok, but you really are missing out on an interesting language. I'd say the same thing about someone worrying about Guido and Python. Stretching that last analogy but I honestly don't know of any other programmer-artist that quite fits into the vein of _why. He is/was really unique.

Re: _why's site is back up

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w1ntermute wrote: post #30
mmastrac wrote: post #17

Here is the data from IDEAS, NOTES and TEST, converted to PDF format. It's somewhat readable (yes, the files are HP PCL format): Ideas: a bizarre set of story ideas http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138391/Ideas Notes: life tips http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138393/Notes Test: A typed test document http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138394/Test-1

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…

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Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by Cacen »

jonah wrote: post #145
Cacen wrote: post #117

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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)…

FROGS, it's frogs on a string. (An old game.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uce9hfGBPIU

this is wonderful, much better than what I had imagined, thank you.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by [deleted] »

[deleted] wrote: post #152
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…

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Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by abolibibelot »

_rs wrote: post #132
pygy_ wrote: post #115

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

I believe it is used to describe a woman rather than being always said by a woman. Could describe the girl he has been talking about throughout the documents.

"désolée" also means..."desolated" or "forlorn" when refering to a place instead of a person.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by abolibibelot »

w1ntermute wrote: post #30
mmastrac wrote: post #17

Here is the data from IDEAS, NOTES and TEST, converted to PDF format. It's somewhat readable (yes, the files are HP PCL format): Ideas: a bizarre set of story ideas http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138391/Ideas Notes: life tips http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138393/Notes Test: A typed test document http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138394/Test-1

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…

Ok. My take on it: this reads like some apocryphal Larry Wall's apocalypses.

What this means is simple: _why switched to Perl 6.

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by eranation »

mmastrac wrote: post #17

Here is the data from IDEAS, NOTES and TEST, converted to PDF format. It's somewhat readable (yes, the files are HP PCL format): Ideas: a bizarre set of story ideas http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138391/Ideas Notes: life tips http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138393/Notes Test: A typed test document http://www.scribd.com/doc/119138394/Test-1

To those who read it now, it seems he updated with new content - SPOOL/DESOLEE (and removed the older ones, IDEAS, NOTES and TEST)

Re: _why's site is back up

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Post by _rs »

apiguy wrote: post #147
PLejeck wrote: post #96

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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.

After the main body of the text there appears to be some erased text. I can only make out some of the words: "th... ..... paper jam those ..... ....."

I got this far but I assume there are errors:

"Three rest of 6 paper jam these things copy machine"

The "rest of 6" and "copy machine" came from a friend who claimed to enhance the image. He said the first word was "three" though I thought "their" initially.

Do you think this content is erased or on the next page?

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