How do we know this is really _why? I think someone could have registered the domain after it expired.
Occam's razor says so
_why's site is updated
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#102Summary: Who's this guy _why? (also known as why the lucky stiff): http://bit.ly/whytheluckystiff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff -- The site http://whytheluckystiff.net is being hosted on GitHub under this account: https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/ -- The git repo for the site has seen activity today, and has sparked conversation: https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/issues -- The…
How did you find out which github account hosted the site?
Re: _why's site is updated
#103Summary: Who's this guy _why? (also known as why the lucky stiff): http://bit.ly/whytheluckystiff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff -- The site http://whytheluckystiff.net is being hosted on GitHub under this account: https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/ -- The git repo for the site has seen activity today, and has sparked conversation: https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/issues -- The…
Any idea on what the erased bit on DESOLEE is after the end? Looks very clearly like something was written there, but I can't make it out.. something about 'three' or maybe 'there'.
It looks like "three re.... paper jam those ...ogh ....." to me.
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#104Feelgood Ruby news of the day.
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#105Public Print Queue SPOOL/DESOLEE 2013-01-06T08:21Z SPOOL/TRUMPETS 2013-04-12T19:43Z SPOOL/SOLICIT 2013-04-12T20:10Z SPOOL/CAPRICE 2013-04-12T22:06Z SPOOL/HOMEWORK 2013-04-12T23:19Z
Re: _why's site is updated
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't think of any specific "exile event", but it did seem some time before he left that there was a trend in the Ruby/Rails community that made him feel unwelcome. That trend was "replace why's libraries and make noise about how his library wasn't any good". Hpricot in particular was under heavy assault. I'll be the first to say that maybe it wasn't always the most performant solution, but for a long time it was t…
While I've never followed either of the stories that closely, isn't that fairly similar to what happened with Zed Shaw? Only in Zed's case he ended up finding a happy home in the Python community vs. completely disappearing from the face of the earth forever.
His software ended up being too good, actually. It made other people feel embarrassed.
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#107Would be nice if it served this page with Content-Type: text/plain, so it wouldn't look like random garbage at first.
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#108I have to wonder whether _why is an intentional or unintentional PR prodigy.
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#109Just a random-lol-thought but somehow my brain floated this. Could _why = Satoshi Nakamoto?
_why = Keyser Söze? :)