Decentralization of _why's Projects

Decentralization of _why's Projects(whymirror.github.com)

49 points by berrow 16 years ago | 19 comments

subbu 16 years ago |

He was code factory. Look at the number of projects he's created single-handedly.

ivanstojic 16 years ago | |

It 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)

herval 16 years ago | | |

so 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...

idlewords 16 years ago | |

That's not necessarily a good sign

swombat 16 years ago | | |

Those are mostly successful open source projects. I'm not sure how you can count that as a "bad sign".

mahmud 16 years ago | | |

It'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!

capablanca 16 years ago |

Let's just hope that github doesn't remove its online presence too (they are all centralized there now ;)

jherdman 16 years ago | |

Not 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 16 years ago | | |

While 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 16 years ago | |

Keyword: Distributed Version Control. People got the stuff also on their disks.

capablanca 16 years ago | | |

Yeah, but it seems they have no other connection point than through Github... Then distributed turns into isolated...

applicative 16 years ago | |

Is 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.

andrewl-hn 16 years ago |

Hi, 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 16 years ago | |

Nevermind. It turned out the pdf is already available at http://shoes.heroku.com

andrewl-hn 16 years ago | |

BTW, I would really love to purchase a paper copy, but his lulu store is closed, too.