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Zed Shaw trying to leverage more attention on the back of _why's mysterious disappearance. It's as saccarine and transparent as Crystal Pepsi. [Edit] I'm being
by antonovka 17y ago
Zed Shaw trying to leverage more attention on the back of _why's mysterious disappearance. It's as saccarine and transparent as Crystal Pepsi.
[Edit] I'm being downvoted into oblivion. Answer me this -- Shouldn't Zed Shaw be contacting _why directly and privately first, rather than posting this publicly shaming and incredibly presumptuous article? What possible benefit is there here?
Given that Zed offhandedly switches between _why and 'Jonathan', he must know _why, right?
- die_sekte 17y agoI assume that it has gotten a little bit impossible to contact _why.
- antonovka 17y agoZed didn't seem to try very hard before assuming the mantle of Internet Behavior and Buddhist Philosophy Police. [Edit] The downvotes truly boggle my mind. Since when did it become socially acceptable to public dress down a software community member without any facts, evidence, or corroborating information? Zed Shaw is trolling. He has nothing in the game (he 'cut all ties' to Ruby, remember?), no relation to _why, and no reason to be publishing invective from his bully pulpit other than a desire to inject himself into the conversation. He doesn't know what happened to _why, or what _why has planned, or whether the code is gone for good.
- unalone 17y agoYou're entirely right. As it happens, _why's email address was pretty well-known; furthermore, judging somebody so quickly after something's happened is brash and impertinent. Even if you were wrong, you're making well-reasoned points, and it's irritating that people are downvoting you and upvoting snark.
- steveklabnik 17y agoIt's as much as a response to the people responding to him on Twitter as anything else.