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Here are all the PCL files rendered to PNG: http://www.gironda.org/pcl/DESOLEE.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/DESOLEE.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.pn

Here are all the PCL files rendered to PNG: http://www.gironda.org/pcl/DESOLEE.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/DESOLEE.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/TRUMPETS.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/TRUMPETS.png

jeffgreco 13y ago
Very exciting: "It's very difficult to advertise one's self from exile - am I crazy to think it can be done?"
enoptix 13y ago
the second image uses the word "exile" several times. Exile is typically associated with being cast out from one's group. The _why saga was before my time as a Rubyist but I always thought he vanished, i.e. left on his own accord. Was there an "exile" event that I am not aware of? Or does anyone know what he's talking about?
- nollidge 13y ago
  > Was there an "exile" event that I am not aware of? No. He left of his own accord. Read it as "self-imposed exile" or something.
- mtsmith85 13y ago
  It would be only conjecture, but maybe by having light shed on his actual identity, he felt his hand had been forced? Thus leading him into exile?
- deleted 13y ago
  [deleted]
- steveklabnik 13y ago
  He did delete his own accounts, yes, but that doesn't mean that he didn't _feel_ unwelcome. Also, if you take _why as being separate from the human being who played him ("Subject" is the best I've got), Subject could have imposed exile upon _why, because they're not the same person. http://words.steveklabnik.com/why-is-a-role-not-a-person http://words.steveklabnik.com/why-is-a-role-not-a-person
- rkuykendall-com 13y ago
  Self-exile, without deliberate action by others, is a common archetype.
- antoko 13y ago
  Self-imposed exile is still exile. I'm not a rubyist but I believe your reading of the saga is correct.
- donaldguy 13y ago
  He also claims (in the footnote) that Jack Black is another "character" he plays (making fun of their similarity in appearance). I'd take all of it as somewhat tongue-in-cheek Some people are still understandably mad at him for taking down his repos when he disappeared. He probably feels a bit like a pariah, even though his actions were of his own choice. There is a long history of the phrase "self-imposed exile". It's even the example for the word self-imposed in the American Heritage Dictionary
- Mz 13y ago
  There are a lot of different ways to be exiled. From what I gather, his privacy was violated so he left. Whether his privacy was violated out of excessive fanboi zeal or as an expression of lack of trust/attempt to verify something or some other reason, it was a form of hostile event which drove him off. He was not being accepted on the terms he wished to set, in essence.
- bitops 13y ago
  I can't think of any specific "exile event", but it did seem some time before he left that there was a trend in the Ruby/Rails community that made him feel unwelcome. That trend was "replace why's libraries and make noise about how his library wasn't any good". Hpricot in particular was under heavy assault. I'll be the first to say that maybe it wasn't always the most performant solution, but for a long time it was the only good solution (and I tried a few). So when people are ripping your libraries left and right, forgetting to pay a little bit of respect to how big an impact he had on the community, then yeah...I could see how he'd feel the need for a self-imposed exile.
  - noonespecial 13y ago
    I always thought that sucked. Its easy to take something that exists and make it better. Its damn hard to decide that something should exist in the first place and give it a try. Like X only betterer is the ghetto of the technically talented but uncreative.
    - DigitalJack 13y ago
      I'm glad people improve on others work. Sad if they are jerks about it, but there I'd no shame in standing in the shoulders of others.
    - jff 13y ago
      "But Mr. Ford, we already have a method for building horseless carriages, why would you develop a new one?"
  - bmelton 13y ago
    While I've never followed either of the stories that closely, isn't that fairly similar to what happened with Zed Shaw? Only in Zed's case he ended up finding a happy home in the Python community vs. completely disappearing from the face of the earth forever.
    - rdouble 13y ago
      Not really.
- Ovid 13y ago
  I'm not going to link to anything for reasons which will be obvious, but basically, _why asked for privacy and someone doxed (outed) him. At this time, _why decided to vanish. I don't know that _why ever said why he vanished (he vanished, after all), but most assume that he left because he was doxed. This made Hacker News at the time and a follow up article about _why I read a couple of years later appeared to verify his identity.
- igravious 13y ago
  self-imposed exile
itafroma 13y ago
Confirmed. Uploaded the PDFs I got to Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635291/Solicit http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635291/Solicit http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635255/DESOLEE http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635255/DESOLEE http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635189/Trumpets http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635189/Trumpets http://www.scribd.com/doc/135650965/Caprice http://www.scribd.com/doc/135650965/Caprice
- itafroma 13y ago
  Other people have been uploaded it, but for the sake of completeness (edit window on parent expired): http://www.scribd.com/doc/135665528/Homework http://www.scribd.com/doc/135665528/Homework
hkmurakami 13y ago
*>"Needs Foxes?" (http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png) Yes please :) Reference: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=why%20the%20lucky%20stiff%20foxes&tbs=imgo:1&biw=1276&bih=1340&sei=r3loUay9AqH2igLLhIDIBA#imgrc=_ https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=why%20the%20luc...
mijustin 13y ago
Text translations: DESOLEE.PNG "This printer queue is going down for MAINTENANCE but will shortly return for a day I believe it will be on the day of April the 19th from like four o'clock to let's say twelve."
jhickner 13y ago
Also this one, from the github repo: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2178548/CAPRICE.pdf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2178548/CAPRICE.pdf

jeffgreco 13y ago

Very exciting: "It's very difficult to advertise one's self from exile - am I crazy to think it can be done?"

enoptix 13y ago

the second image uses the word "exile" several times. Exile is typically associated with being cast out from one's group. The _why saga was before my time as a Rubyist but I always thought he vanished, i.e. left on his own accord. Was there an "exile" event that I am not aware of? Or does anyone know what he's talking about?

nollidge 13y ago
> Was there an "exile" event that I am not aware of? No. He left of his own accord. Read it as "self-imposed exile" or something.
mtsmith85 13y ago
It would be only conjecture, but maybe by having light shed on his actual identity, he felt his hand had been forced? Thus leading him into exile?
deleted 13y ago
[deleted]
steveklabnik 13y ago
He did delete his own accounts, yes, but that doesn't mean that he didn't _feel_ unwelcome. Also, if you take _why as being separate from the human being who played him ("Subject" is the best I've got), Subject could have imposed exile upon _why, because they're not the same person. http://words.steveklabnik.com/why-is-a-role-not-a-person http://words.steveklabnik.com/why-is-a-role-not-a-person
rkuykendall-com 13y ago
Self-exile, without deliberate action by others, is a common archetype.
antoko 13y ago
Self-imposed exile is still exile. I'm not a rubyist but I believe your reading of the saga is correct.
donaldguy 13y ago
He also claims (in the footnote) that Jack Black is another "character" he plays (making fun of their similarity in appearance). I'd take all of it as somewhat tongue-in-cheek Some people are still understandably mad at him for taking down his repos when he disappeared. He probably feels a bit like a pariah, even though his actions were of his own choice. There is a long history of the phrase "self-imposed exile". It's even the example for the word self-imposed in the American Heritage Dictionary
Mz 13y ago
There are a lot of different ways to be exiled. From what I gather, his privacy was violated so he left. Whether his privacy was violated out of excessive fanboi zeal or as an expression of lack of trust/attempt to verify something or some other reason, it was a form of hostile event which drove him off. He was not being accepted on the terms he wished to set, in essence.
bitops 13y ago
I can't think of any specific "exile event", but it did seem some time before he left that there was a trend in the Ruby/Rails community that made him feel unwelcome. That trend was "replace why's libraries and make noise about how his library wasn't any good". Hpricot in particular was under heavy assault. I'll be the first to say that maybe it wasn't always the most performant solution, but for a long time it was the only good solution (and I tried a few). So when people are ripping your libraries left and right, forgetting to pay a little bit of respect to how big an impact he had on the community, then yeah...I could see how he'd feel the need for a self-imposed exile.
- noonespecial 13y ago
  I always thought that sucked. Its easy to take something that exists and make it better. Its damn hard to decide that something should exist in the first place and give it a try. Like X only betterer is the ghetto of the technically talented but uncreative.
  - DigitalJack 13y ago
    I'm glad people improve on others work. Sad if they are jerks about it, but there I'd no shame in standing in the shoulders of others.
  - jff 13y ago
    "But Mr. Ford, we already have a method for building horseless carriages, why would you develop a new one?"
- bmelton 13y ago
  While I've never followed either of the stories that closely, isn't that fairly similar to what happened with Zed Shaw? Only in Zed's case he ended up finding a happy home in the Python community vs. completely disappearing from the face of the earth forever.
  - rdouble 13y ago
    Not really.
Ovid 13y ago
I'm not going to link to anything for reasons which will be obvious, but basically, _why asked for privacy and someone doxed (outed) him. At this time, _why decided to vanish. I don't know that _why ever said why he vanished (he vanished, after all), but most assume that he left because he was doxed. This made Hacker News at the time and a follow up article about _why I read a couple of years later appeared to verify his identity.
igravious 13y ago
self-imposed exile

itafroma 13y ago

Confirmed. Uploaded the PDFs I got to Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635291/Solicit http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635291/Solicit http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635255/DESOLEE http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635255/DESOLEE http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635189/Trumpets http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635189/Trumpets http://www.scribd.com/doc/135650965/Caprice http://www.scribd.com/doc/135650965/Caprice

itafroma 13y ago
Other people have been uploaded it, but for the sake of completeness (edit window on parent expired): http://www.scribd.com/doc/135665528/Homework http://www.scribd.com/doc/135665528/Homework

hkmurakami 13y ago

*>"Needs Foxes?" (http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png) Yes please :) Reference: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=why%20the%20lucky%20stiff%20foxes&tbs=imgo:1&biw=1276&bih=1340&sei=r3loUay9AqH2igLLhIDIBA#imgrc=_ https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=why%20the%20luc...

mijustin 13y ago

Text translations: DESOLEE.PNG "This printer queue is going down for MAINTENANCE but will shortly return for a day I believe it will be on the day of April the 19th from like four o'clock to let's say twelve."

jhickner 13y ago

Also this one, from the github repo: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2178548/CAPRICE.pdf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2178548/CAPRICE.pdf