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Decentralization of _why's Projects
- capablanca 17y agoLet's just hope that github doesn't remove its online presence too (they are all centralized there now ;)
- jherdman 17y agoNot 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.
- litewulf 17y agoWhile 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.
- Bjoern 17y agoKeyword: Distributed Version Control. People got the stuff also on their disks.
- capablanca 17y agoYeah, but it seems they have no other connection point than through Github... Then distributed turns into isolated...
- bk 17y agoIt would be cool if people's self-hosted public repos could be crawled and indexed to create a repo search engine.
- applicative 17y agoIs 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.
- subbu 17y agoHe was code factory. Look at the number of projects he's created single-handedly.
- ivanstojic 17y agoIt 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)
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- herval 17y agoso 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...
- ivanstojic 17y agoOf course not. However, you are equating his choice of ending his online presence with the quality and quantity of his work, or at least implying that they are related. Can you offer any arguments to prove that point?
- idlewords 17y agoThat's not necessarily a good sign
- swombat 17y agoThose are mostly successful open source projects. I'm not sure how you can count that as a "bad sign".
- mahmud 17y agoIt'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!
- andrewl-hn 17y agoHi, 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-hn 17y agoBTW, I would really love to purchase a paper copy, but his lulu store is closed, too.
- andrewl-hn 17y agoNevermind. It turned out the pdf is already available at http://shoes.heroku.com http://shoes.heroku.com