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Apparently he tweeted this yesterday (quoted from a retweet): "programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. una

by carbon8 17y ago

Apparently he tweeted this yesterday (quoted from a retweet): "programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more." But _why's contributions are largely irreplaceable. Yeah, software evolves and individual projects might be supplanted by others, but his contributions go way beyond simply writing functioning code.

arghnoname 17y ago
I'm not in the ruby world, so perhaps that's why his contributions have largely been outside my sphere and there may be a great deal I'm unaware of. That said, when someone goes and removes their repositories and whatever other traces of their workproduct they have access to (as is their right), it might make people reluctant to use their products in the future (assuming they return).
- rcoder 17y ago
  _why has never really made "products" -- in fact, as far as I know, he's never made money from any of the stuff he shared online. (Sales of physical copies of the Poignant Guide may be the one exception to this, but IIRC, he priced it exactly at his cost in order to insure the widest possible distribution.)
there 17y ago
Apparently he tweeted this yesterday: "programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more." ironically he wrote "you" on twitter, and you wrote "u" on hn.
- Jeremysr 17y ago
  It's from a retweet I believe, where the retweeter replaced "you" with "u", perhaps to fit it into 140 chars.
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embeddedradical 17y ago
burn out?
wyw 17y ago
But _why's contributions are largely irreplaceable. Sadly this is not true for anyone.
- joe_the_user 17y ago
  Not in the programming world, which is sad.... but hopefully that isn't the only place we live in.
grandalf 17y ago
There has been some negativity about hpricot lately: http://twitter.com/#search?q=Nokogiri%20hpricot http://twitter.com/#search?q=Nokogiri%20hpricot
- peregrine 17y ago
  And hpricot is the only living remnant of _why.
  - netghost 17y ago
    Well thanks to github, there's branches of a bunch of his work. I have a fairly recent copy of Potion: http://github.com/adamsanderson/potion/tree/master http://github.com/adamsanderson/potion/tree/master

by carbon8 17y ago

arghnoname 17y ago

I'm not in the ruby world, so perhaps that's why his contributions have largely been outside my sphere and there may be a great deal I'm unaware of. That said, when someone goes and removes their repositories and whatever other traces of their workproduct they have access to (as is their right), it might make people reluctant to use their products in the future (assuming they return).

rcoder 17y ago
_why has never really made "products" -- in fact, as far as I know, he's never made money from any of the stuff he shared online. (Sales of physical copies of the Poignant Guide may be the one exception to this, but IIRC, he priced it exactly at his cost in order to insure the widest possible distribution.)

there 17y ago

Apparently he tweeted this yesterday: "programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more." ironically he wrote "you" on twitter, and you wrote "u" on hn.

Jeremysr 17y ago
It's from a retweet I believe, where the retweeter replaced "you" with "u", perhaps to fit it into 140 chars.
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embeddedradical 17y ago

burn out?

wyw 17y ago

But _why's contributions are largely irreplaceable. Sadly this is not true for anyone.

joe_the_user 17y ago
Not in the programming world, which is sad.... but hopefully that isn't the only place we live in.

grandalf 17y ago

There has been some negativity about hpricot lately: http://twitter.com/#search?q=Nokogiri%20hpricot http://twitter.com/#search?q=Nokogiri%20hpricot

peregrine 17y ago
And hpricot is the only living remnant of _why.
- netghost 17y ago
  Well thanks to github, there's branches of a bunch of his work. I have a fairly recent copy of Potion: http://github.com/adamsanderson/potion/tree/master http://github.com/adamsanderson/potion/tree/master