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49 pointsberrow16y ago19 comments

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He was code factory. Look at the number of projects he's created single-handedly.

It is indubitable that people should be judged by the totality of their actions, yet it is rarely so. I think at least some communities judge _why by the way he exited stage right in the middle of the play.

(Full disclosure: I don't like him)

herval16y ago

so it would be better if he never left the stage but didn't produce half of the excellent material (both written and in code) that he did?

Thankfully I don't belong to 'communities' that consider things that way...

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idlewords16y ago

That's not necessarily a good sign

swombat16y ago

Those are mostly successful open source projects. I'm not sure how you can count that as a "bad sign".

mahmud16y ago

It's not unusual for a specialist to churn out volumes of code from a single project: if you look at his projects you might see an emerging pattern .. _why was a specialist in fun.

cheers to the persona, and I raise the man a pint of his adult beverage of choice!

capablanca16y ago

Let's just hope that github doesn't remove its online presence too (they are all centralized there now ;)

jherdman16y ago

Not really. A Git repo isn't really beholden to any other repo. Some are considered definitive, but truly they can all stand on equal footing.

litewulf16y ago

While this is true, look at the difficulty people had in reconstructing his work from github. People may have clones of the repo, but maybe not with all of his latest commits.

Bjoern16y ago

Keyword: Distributed Version Control. People got the stuff also on their disks.

capablanca16y ago

Yeah, but it seems they have no other connection point than through Github... Then distributed turns into isolated...

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applicative16y ago

Is it just me, or has github gotten a lot slower in the last couple of months? I haven't noticed it with `git clone git://github.com...`, but the website seems to be grinding to a halt.

andrewl-hn16y ago

Hi, I have a pdf version of "Nobody Knows Shoes" which was available as a free download from _why's website. I'm not really sure what kind of license it has, though - can't find it in the book itself and website is down, obviously.

What should I do with it? Should I put it online somewhere?

andrewl-hn16y ago

Nevermind. It turned out the pdf is already available at http://shoes.heroku.com

andrewl-hn16y ago

BTW, I would really love to purchase a paper copy, but his lulu store is closed, too.

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subbu16y ago

He was code factory. Look at the number of projects he's created single-handedly.

ivanstojic16y ago

(Full disclosure: I don't like him)

herval16y ago

so it would be better if he never left the stage but didn't produce half of the excellent material (both written and in code) that he did?

Thankfully I don't belong to 'communities' that consider things that way...

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idlewords16y ago

That's not necessarily a good sign

swombat16y ago

Those are mostly successful open source projects. I'm not sure how you can count that as a "bad sign".

mahmud16y ago

It's not unusual for a specialist to churn out volumes of code from a single project: if you look at his projects you might see an emerging pattern .. _why was a specialist in fun.

cheers to the persona, and I raise the man a pint of his adult beverage of choice!

capablanca16y ago

Let's just hope that github doesn't remove its online presence too (they are all centralized there now ;)

jherdman16y ago

Not really. A Git repo isn't really beholden to any other repo. Some are considered definitive, but truly they can all stand on equal footing.

litewulf16y ago

While this is true, look at the difficulty people had in reconstructing his work from github. People may have clones of the repo, but maybe not with all of his latest commits.

Bjoern16y ago

Keyword: Distributed Version Control. People got the stuff also on their disks.

capablanca16y ago

Yeah, but it seems they have no other connection point than through Github... Then distributed turns into isolated...

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applicative16y ago

Is it just me, or has github gotten a lot slower in the last couple of months? I haven't noticed it with `git clone git://github.com...`, but the website seems to be grinding to a halt.

andrewl-hn16y ago

What should I do with it? Should I put it online somewhere?

andrewl-hn16y ago

Nevermind. It turned out the pdf is already available at http://shoes.heroku.com

andrewl-hn16y ago

BTW, I would really love to purchase a paper copy, but his lulu store is closed, too.

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