My guess is that he got hired by an intelligence agency.
That could be right! I thought so.
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Someone outed him here: http://whoiswhytheluckystiff.wordpress.com/
What a mean-spirited thing to do to someone who just wanted to stay anonymous. It makes me sad and angry. If this is the reason _why decided to pick up and leave, I understand it. We have his code, it will live on. Perhaps he will return in another guise.
I don't think it was mean-spirited. I do, however, think it's a crying shame.
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I'm pretty sure it wasn't them, it definitely ended with "Solutions". The first word sounded something like "all-doors" but I couldn't really make it out (I'm not familiar with the accent).
Aldor Solutions, 1647 Witt Rd, Ste 201, Frisco, TX. "Todd Abrams" is the contact.
I live right near there... Weird.
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#314I 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
Okay folks, let's not overreact. Odds are all of his sites are running on the same host, so someone screwing around could take them all down once inside. And if his twitter account used the same password...
Maybe he used the same password at PerlMonks:
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He could have had his computer, or email hacked.. have to wait to see if we hear from him before we assume he actually cleared all the accounts himself.
Sure, well of course if he got hacked then I am not gonna hold it against him. I just can't imagine anyone targeting _why.
I can, but only because I'm a cynic.
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#316I 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
It seems that not every account was taken down...
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9c5on/where_is_...
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#317Don't assume that _why is the one removing his online identity...I've seen this happen with other people - and it was the work of a malicious hacker.
I want to believe this, but then I remembered denial is one of the first phases of grief.
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#318I 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
Holy shit... _why is why I'm a Ruby developer to this day, especially the Poignant Guide. So very sad.
I was already digging into Ruby when I found out about _why... but he's definitely a big chunk of the reason I stuck with it for so long, AND served as a good vehicle for evangelizing Ruby to new people...
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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.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm going to really miss the soundtrack that went along with the Guide. Does anyone have it?
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Do you have a link for this, as far as I know, no one knows his real name, job, etc.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1507505 Though I'm not entirely certain the authors didn't just make up a name to fit the citation style. I don't see any reason why they would have any information the internet at large doens't.
Doing a search for "ruby Malsky" brings up _why stuff. I think Malsky is a character in some of _why's works.