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Re: _why is no more

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 5:37 PM UTC

carbon8 wrote: post #6

Apparently he tweeted this yesterday (quoted from a retweet): "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." But _why's contributions are largely irreplaceable. Yeah, software evolves and individual projects might be supplanted by others, but his contributions go way beyond simply writing functioning code.

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Re: _why is no more

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Post by myobie » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 5:37 PM UTC

I was playing with hackityhack last night, trying to find a way to contribute to it. It's very important to me that young people have an easy way to learn programming and I think he was really on the right track.

Re: _why is no more

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Post by embeddedradical » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 5:37 PM UTC

carbon8 wrote: post #6

Apparently he tweeted this yesterday (quoted from a retweet): "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." But _why's contributions are largely irreplaceable. Yeah, software evolves and individual projects might be supplanted by others, but his contributions go way beyond simply writing functioning code.

burn out?

Re: _why is no more

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 5:37 PM UTC

there wrote: post #12

carbon8 wrote: post #6

Apparently he tweeted this yesterday (quoted from a retweet): "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." But _why's contributions are largely irreplaceable. Yeah, software evolves and individual projects might be supplanted by others, but his contributions go way beyond simply writing functioning code.

Apparently he tweeted this yesterday: "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." ironically he wrote "you" on twitter, and you wrote "u" on hn.

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Re: _why is no more

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Post by arghnoname » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 5:37 PM UTC

sho wrote: post #17

Jeremysr wrote: post #2

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

That was pretty immature, to delete the repos as well. Sure, nuke your Twitter, who cares. But people might have been depending on the repos; it's a breach of trust IMO. Not impressed.

Yeah I think so too. My initial reaction was that this is his right, which technically I'm sure it is. It does call into question an unspoken rule of open source though, which is you can abandon your stuff if you want, but don't try to remove all traces, even if that is ultimately a futile act.

Re: _why is no more

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Post by dylanz » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 5:37 PM UTC

pavelludiq wrote: post #9

defunkt wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://hacketyhack.net/ also This is a sad day.

http://tryruby.hobix.com/ too. THIS IS BAD!

Indeed. All languages need an online app like this!

Re: _why is no more

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Post by jamesbritt » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 5:37 PM UTC

sho wrote: post #17

Jeremysr wrote: post #2

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

That was pretty immature, to delete the repos as well. Sure, nuke your Twitter, who cares. But people might have been depending on the repos; it's a breach of trust IMO. Not impressed.

OTOH, I have to believe there are many people with copies of that code.

Re: _why is no more

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Post by asenchi » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 5:38 PM UTC

Wow, one of the few personalities to ever remain truly anonymous on the Internet vanishes in a day. Sad sad day. :(

Re: _why is no more

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Post by shaunxcode » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 5:39 PM UTC

Man - what a bum out. The talk he gave at art + code was awesome and seriously inspired me to focus more on educational material for teaching kids to program. I hope he at least gives a more valid reason for removing everything. I can understand letting something become dormant - but others can take what you have done and be inspired and or build upon it. That is not a slight to you it's just the way a system grows. Like layers of sediment upon rock upon sediment. If I ever discovered that a piece of my code/idea had made its way into something someone else had done I would be stoked not bummed out.

Re: _why is no more

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Post by wyw » Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 5:40 PM UTC

carbon8 wrote: post #6

Apparently he tweeted this yesterday (quoted from a retweet): "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." But _why's contributions are largely irreplaceable. Yeah, software evolves and individual projects might be supplanted by others, but his contributions go way beyond simply writing functioning code.

But _why's contributions are largely irreplaceable.

Sadly this is not true for anyone.