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Also (too late to edit): Why apparently went to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City: http://web.archive.org/web/20010518151731rn_1/deathstar.eng....
Intresting! Also that implies his real name is K. Roford (I went to the University of Utah as well, so I'm familiar with their naming scheme).
I just noticed that _why apparently deleted his twitter account. I then found that that wasn't all he deleted: http://twitter.com/_why http://github.com/why http://whytheluckystiff.net/ http://poignantguide.net/ http://hackety.org/ http://shoooes.net/ All disappeared... For those who don't know who I'm talking about: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
You're all a bunch of suckers
http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/08/11
I'll just assume _why is vacationing in Europe.
Does anyone know what that means?
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I managed to dig up a PDF copy of his Poignant Guide to Ruby over here: http://www.ember.co.nz/resources/whys-poignant-guide-to-ruby... Anyone who hasn't checked it out yet, do yourself a favour. And for the rest of us, who would like to remember this anonymous creator of cartoon foxes. Let's hope it's just a quarter life crisis and that he's back soon. Or that he finds something else that makes him happier than prog…
Someone has also created a github project to archive his work: http://github.com/binary42/why-archive/tree/master It currently has a pdf of the guide.
A few years back I read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Somewhere in the middle of the book someone says "why the lucky stiff!" Does anyone know what that means?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Why_the_lucky_stiff#Real_n...
in pursuit of this new knowledge i have discovered that every... easily accessible (so far)... copy of his poignant guide to ruby has disappeared as well what an eff you i'm pretty dissapointed. if anyone has a copy, i would love to talk... i'm certainly the intended audience. yooshooa@yahoo
Mediafire link (is.gd'd) : http://is.gd/2p1Jd
in pursuit of this new knowledge i have discovered that every... easily accessible (so far)... copy of his poignant guide to ruby has disappeared as well what an eff you i'm pretty dissapointed. if anyone has a copy, i would love to talk... i'm certainly the intended audience. yooshooa@yahoo
It was released under CC Attribution-ShareAlike so there is no reason for it to disappear.
I just noticed that _why apparently deleted his twitter account. I then found that that wasn't all he deleted: http://twitter.com/_why http://github.com/why http://whytheluckystiff.net/ http://poignantguide.net/ http://hackety.org/ http://shoooes.net/ All disappeared... For those who don't know who I'm talking about: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Whytheluc...
I remember reading on his twitter something like, "a caller asks: should I use hpricot or nokogiri? If you're not me, use nokogiri. If you're me, then stop being me"
I just noticed that _why apparently deleted his twitter account. I then found that that wasn't all he deleted: http://twitter.com/_why http://github.com/why http://whytheluckystiff.net/ http://poignantguide.net/ http://hackety.org/ http://shoooes.net/ All disappeared... For those who don't know who I'm talking about: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
Google cache is still live: http://74.125.155.132/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&... Edit: Also, twitter search results: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%40_why Notably: racheltostring: RT: @_why: programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more. about 21 hours ago from TwitterFox
"Clearly, the benchmarks you see on Ruby Inside are skewed to favor Nokogiri... Why not treat Hpricot fairly and use it properly in the benchmarks? It reeks of something."
