He's soon going to unveil a new ruby VM, to replace MRI.
He's gonna find the cure for Rabies!
_why's site is back up
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Nobody's stalking him.
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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.
What about curiosity about an unsolved riddle/puzzle?
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> Weird, last time I checked I actually could avoid staring at people. Naked people too. Must be a superpower or something. Yes, it must be. Surely it's not normal or representative of the general population. The normal thing to do in such situations is to stare (something that has been milked for comedic effect in hundreds of "hidden camera" pranks). That said, I don't really believe what you claim. You are probably…
Yes, it must be. Surely it's not normal or representative of the general population. The normal thing to do in such situations is to stare (something that has been milked for comedic effect in hundreds of "hidden camera" pranks). The general population did a lot of things it later stopped doing, or did less. That said, I don't really believe what you claim. You are probably overestimating your powers of not staring i…
>The general population did a lot of things it later stopped doing, or did less.
I doubt they've change a lot of thousands of years evolutionary traits like looking at something unexpected and/or sexual attraction.
(Plus it's not like the "hidden camera" pranks I mention happened in some long gone decades...)
>For example, as a person who has seen a sauna, a mirror, and a public outdoor female-only bath in the middle of a city, I can assure you that I'd only stare if he/she specifically asked me to.
We were talking about people doing things DIFFERENTLY (like one woman/man entering a room naked) driving attention, whereas the above example is about people all doing the same thing that is expected in that room (being naked).
I fail to see how this applies. And I'd love to do a "hidden camera" prank on you on this very matter.
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#166Oh my, did't know what was this all about. Just checked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff This _why guy is like Elvis/Garbo of the Ruby world. Can somebody share more about some specific inspiring stuff _why did that makes him such an important figure in Ruby community: Matz -> Ruby DHH -> Rails _why -> ?
_why -> camping
_why -> shoes
_why -> a bunch of other stuff, some of which is now part of the Ruby standard library
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#168HTTP 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.
When I use it (i'm french as a second language), I would usually use it to mean something closer to "sorry about that" or "Sorry, but ...". For example, "Sorry, but the road is closed.". I would not use it in the context "I'm sorry for what I did.". So, it's not a direct translation.
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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.
It's french for sorry, desolated would be more related to 'désolation'