Congrats raganwald. I <3 Github, and even though I don't know raganwald personally, his comments were always intriguing and thoughtful. I also didn't know he l

Congrats raganwald. I <3 Github, and even though I don't know raganwald personally, his comments were always intriguing and thoughtful. I also didn't know he lived in Toronto, for some reason I assumed he lived in San Francisco. I also didn't know about Homoiconic - and now there is a treasure trove of lots of wonderful programming (largely Ruby stuff from what I am seeing) articles that I can go through one by one...little by little. Like this one - https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-10-28/and_and_or.markdown https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2008-10-... For some reason, I have never used `and` instead of `&&` in Ruby. Perhaps because I have never seen it used, but now that I have seen that I can't help but try it out next time. I am not sure if this is even valid syntax in Ruby 2.0, but I am so glad I stumbled across this. For those that were criticizing the purpose of this post on HN - this is exactly why it deserves a place here. Raganwald is a valued member of HN, largely because of the stuff he has published over the years (and his contributions to the community) - which are still valuable today. As a relatively young Rubyist (started learning in 2009) all of these things are like gold to me. So thank you llambda for submitting this, thank you HN for upvoting it, and thank you raganwald for not deleting this wonderful content. Edit: Also, I think it's cool when we get a chance to 'big up' (Jamaican speak for: "send positive/congratulatory words to") someone while they are alive and can appreciate it. Don't mean to get all morbid, but with so many 'iconic' tech luminaries dying recently (or it feels like that anyway), we always see an outpouring of love after the fact - when they can't hear it. I think it's cool that even though this isn't anything "major" (like a Nobel Prize or anything like that) it's large (and meaningful) enough, for people to take time out to 'big up' raganwald. So....cheers raganwald. raises imaginary wine glass