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by milesf 14y ago
Here's the text from /SPOOL/JERKS: --- Many, many years ago, so long ago that it's a real stretch to find anyone else who can remember this, on the old Oprah show, she did a feature on individuals who had left society and, in the process, h
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by milesf 14y ago
Can't imagine why _why might have left in the first place :P
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by milesf 14y ago
You'll have to do some digging to see the history of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540796
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by milesf 14y ago
If anyone's guilty of seeking attention, it's me (who posted this link) and all the people upvoting this. I posted the link. All _why has done is make changes to his website, and I and many others have been following the puzzles he's create
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by milesf 14y ago
Nonsense. Hacker News is about Hacking: from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(programmer_subculture) "A hacker is someone who loves to program or who enjoys playful cleverness, or a combination of the two. The act of engaging in acti
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by milesf 14y ago
They are in PCL. A viewer such as http://openpcl.sourceforge.net/ will work. On the Mac PCLtoPDF does a really nice job http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/pcltopdf.html
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by milesf 14y ago
There's a flood of new content on whytheluckystiff.net, as predicted months ago by a cryptic message on the site. Nice to have you back, _why. We missed you :)
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_why's site updated again(whytheluckystiff.net)
245 points by milesf 14y ago|133 comments
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by milesf 14y ago
The fact that AgileBit's rep Jeffrey Goldberg is speaking honestly and in plain english about the problem only galvanizes my decision to keep using and recommending their product. It builds trust, as in I trust they will fix the problem and
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by milesf 14y ago
I believe you :) It wouldn't be very _why-like to flat out deny it.
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by milesf 14y ago
Didn't consider that :) Maybe _why is feedward. The account has no other submissions and no comments. It was created on September 22, 2012. Does that date stick out as being significant?
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by milesf 14y ago
GitHub's search or Google's search? I was only able to find it using Google and "site:github.com DESOLEE"
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by milesf 14y ago
The handwriting and pictures look a lot like his. If this is someone spoofing _why, then kudos to them. They're doing a great job.
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by milesf 14y ago
_why = Keyser Söze? :)
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by milesf 14y ago
It doesn't matter. Less attention they get the better.
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by milesf 14y ago
Summary: Who's this guy _why? (also known as why the lucky stiff): http://bit.ly/whytheluckystiff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff -- The site http://whytheluckystiff.net is being hosted on GitHub under this account:
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by milesf 14y ago
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/03/...
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by milesf 14y ago
I agree with you, having a thicker skin is not sufficient, but to me it's not either/or, it's both/and. We need better communities and people with thicker skins. Sometimes things can become so evil and caustic, no skin in the world is thi
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by milesf 14y ago
It's not a large number of people, but rather some who hold a lot of influence and sway who've attacked _why.
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by milesf 14y ago
I'll also speak candidly about this issue, knowing that what I'm going to share will offend some people. If you find religious stuff offensive, please just move on and disregard this comment. This isn't for you. While it's important for com
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by milesf 14y ago
What I like are safe zones, such as smaller communities within a larger. The club I run does that ( http://www.fvrb.org ). We really strive to not only be accepting, but encourage others to take risks and be willing to fail or look foolish.
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by milesf 14y ago
Amazing that a guy who disappeared almost 4 years ago can make it to the top of Hacker News, more than a few times, just by an obscure change to a basically defunct website. I think it's pretty safe to say people love why the lucky stiff. H
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by milesf 14y ago
I've had April 18th in my calendar for weeks after the initial activity at whytheluckystiff.net. Forget the haters, Ruby's better with _why around.
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A general technique for automating NES games(cs.cmu.edu)
24 points by milesf 14y ago|2 comments
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by milesf 14y ago
I prefer TotalFinder as well, along with Divvy with a shortcut to quickly resize. I hit Command-T to create a new tab, then Command-G to connect them together. It's now just muscle memory for me, I don't even think about it.
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by milesf 14y ago
Then there was my era of "modern computing", the 80's. My favourite show back then was Bits and Bytes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VaBYw3swyg
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The Great Movies(sivers.org)
2 points by milesf 14y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 14y ago
It's a useful data point to know the speed of frameworks, but what matters most to me is speed of development and whether or not I enjoy the process. Wish there was a way to benchmark those points.
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by milesf 14y ago
FTA: "Publicly shaming the offenders – and bystanders – was not the appropriate way to handle the situation." So you publicly fire your employee? You hypocrites! If an employer decides it's necessary to let someone go because of a debacle l
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This is customer service done right [video](8bit.io)
1 points by milesf 14y ago|0 comments

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