_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky Stiff
Wow. Hope he's OK.
One comment on the page above did give me a good laugh:
"He changed his name to _when and is working on perl 6."
Regards,
Bill
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From: "Karl von Laudermann" <doodpants@mailinator.com>
Among the terrible consequences of this, one of the lesser but still
notable is that someone with the power needs to edit ruby-lang.org to
remove the link to tryruby.hobix.com
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On Aug 20, 2:08 pm, Karl von Laudermann <doodpa...@mailinator.com> wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky Stiff
Karl von Laudermann wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky Stiff
sometimes hard to accept, but: people come and people go.
no doubt, his work is outstanding. And this will last - no matter, if he had stopped or will come back in the future.
But making a super hero out of a normal person and all the other personality cult stuff seems to be a bad thing to me.
I hope, it was his free decision.
Things like that can always happen, even matz could simple start doing totally different things right now ('Gone fishing...').
Reminds me of Guy Decoux.
Anyway, time to work harder, eh?
Sad, and somewhat puzzling he didn't just allow people to say goodbye
before leaving or something. 
Apparently his youtube channel is still online:
http://www.youtube.com/user/whytheluckystiff
And Ruby Inside has a list of all the stuff that's still there, or
mirrored in some way:
http://www.rubyinside.com/why-the-lucky-stiff-links-2333.html
I can only imagine _why stumbled upon some forbidden 'potion' in his
secret lab one night and ...
\ | /
o*o *o ' O o o
*oO Poof o*'O
*OoO*'o*'o o
/ | \
that was that.
Go well _why, go well.
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On Aug 20, 4:10 pm, Karl von Laudermann <doodpa...@mailinator.com> wrote:
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He is now working for the NSA :>
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Karl von Laudermann<doodpants@mailinator.com> wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky Stiff
Karl von Laudermann wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky Stiff
On thing i do know is that he was working on Shoes 2, and on his Shoe
web site he had references to two other languages that he though was
neat (Scala or Clojure I think), but the other one he mentioned a lot
and deserved a look at was REBOL.
http://www.rebol.com/index-lang.html
First built by one of the creators of Amiga OS. The goal is to be the
premier Internet language, to remain small (well under a meg for the
whole thing), and super easy to use (but breaks many standard
programming conventions that a lot did not like. Well REBOL 3.0 has
been in the works for over a year and will most likely be the last big
huge effort to get this programming language to "Grow Up" and get out
there before its time passes it bye.
http://www.rebol.com/rebol3/motivation.html
He may have just cut all Ruby ties to work on this language and help the
5 man team. In his Poignant Guide he points out that he had actually
looked at Ruby before, but put it down thinking "Poor little language
does not stand a chance."
Well Ruby is here to stay, but perhaps this interesting internet
language (REBOL) being rebuilt from the ground up has called _why to its
cause.
Check it out and see if that may be where he vanished to.
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I find it somewhat unsurprising that somebody who was totally anonymous
in the first place might up and disappear one day.
--Ken
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:10:08 +0900, Karl von Laudermann wrote:
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--
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
Why do I find myself thinking he just might surface again for this:
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wow, how sad. that just ruined my day. he really was an idol to me.
he's one of the main reasons I even tried ruby in the first place.
I just love everything he did...
Sure hope he's still out there and coming back some day...
Phrogz wrote:
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On Aug 20, 2:08 pm, Karl von Laudermann <doodpa...@mailinator.com> > wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky Stiff
Among the terrible consequences of this, one of the lesser but still
notable is that someone with the power needs to edit ruby-lang.org to
remove the link to tryruby.hobix.com
Done.
James
Not sure if you are aware, but _why intentionally destroyed all his
work before leaving. That's not consistent with "people come and
go". I don't plan to set fire to my apartment when I move out....
-greg
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Ralf Mueller<ralf.mueller@zmaw.de> wrote:
Things like that can always happen, even matz could simple start doing
totally different things right now ('Gone fishing...').
Reminds me of Guy Decoux.
No wait, I meant the MiB, of course.
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On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Todd Benson<caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Karl von > Laudermann<doodpants@mailinator.com> wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky StiffHe is now working for the NSA :>
I know _why? had a background in the Amiga scene so it's no surprise that he mentioned Rebol. There are also certain conceptual similarities between Shoes and Rebol/View which hint at a similar outlook on the nature of networked applications, although the underlying languages have different priorities.
Unfortunately it's very hard for a language to gain traction unless a particularly successful project is based on it and Rebol currently lacks that. The closed source commercial model behind development also makes it that bit less attractive in a world overflowing with powerful open source languages.
Ellie
Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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On 22 Aug 2009, at 21:50, Brad Mr wrote:
Karl von Laudermann wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky StiffOn thing i do know is that he was working on Shoes 2, and on his Shoe
web site he had references to two other languages that he though was
neat (Scala or Clojure I think), but the other one he mentioned a lot
and deserved a look at was REBOL.
REBOL Language Overview
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raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason
That is sad, and probably the first time I've been truly burnt by an online
service...
That is, while I imagine someone may have his "freaky freaky sandbox"
somewhere, I'll no longer be able to point people to that amazing
introduction. It was something like fifteen or twenty minutes, even for non-
programmers, and served as an amazing introduction to Ruby and programming in
general.
Perhaps I'm being selfish, but I think that's one thing I'll miss the most.
Much of his other work has been either saved or replicated somewhere (many
seem to be using Nokogiri instead of Hpricot these days), and while I enjoyed
his sense of humor, I found the poignant guide to be confusing more than
anything else.
But that in particular, and perhaps where Hackity was eventually going -- I
actually sat my mother down with that, and she was able to understand what was
going on, and had fun doing it.
I suppose what's creepy now is looking in Google Cache and seeing him describe
himself as someone "who will die young and make no lasting impression." Like
everyone else here, I hope he's alright.
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On Friday 21 August 2009 12:45:07 am Phrogz wrote:
On Aug 20, 2:08 pm, Karl von Laudermann <doodpa...@mailinator.com> > > wrote:
> _why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the
> internets!Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky StiffAmong the terrible consequences of this, one of the lesser but still
notable is that someone with the power needs to edit ruby-lang.org to
remove the link to tryruby.hobix.com
Hi _why!
Somehow, I had premonition you would make this 'dis-appearance'.
Understandable in a _why sort of _way.
All the best to your efforts.
You've given some great handles to the pot.
---para
Ken Bloom wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky StiffI find it somewhat unsurprising that somebody who was totally anonymous
in the first place might up and disappear one day.--Ken
Good point, may have been something he planned from the start, something
he expected to do one day just not sure when. I guess he felt Ruby was
well supported and entrenched (for the right reasons) and had helped
enough people he was no longer needed to a certain degree.
But if you think about, how many stories have there been over the
Centuries about a man or women in a whole class and level of there own
in something. That they were referred to as "THE" person regarding "X".
But in the end, they some how mysteriously vanish.
Me Personally i hope he is off to help the REBOL team in making REBOL 3
a reality before its time passes by.
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:10:08 +0900, Karl von Laudermann wrote:
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I don't know if this has been sent out already, but I really enjoyed
reading this article about _why:
Siddarth
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Karl von Laudermann > <doodpants@mailinator.com> wrote:
_why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the internets!
Daring Fireball: John Resig on Why the Lucky StiffWhy do I find myself thinking he just might surface again for this:
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