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Decentralization of _why's Projects

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

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)

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...

Of 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?

That's not necessarily a good sign

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

It would be cool if people's self-hosted public repos could be crawled and indexed to create a repo search engine.

1. It would be cool if... 2. Could it work that... 3. Let's get started!

That is a pretty awesome idea. GitHub/Launchpadish but the actual repositories are hosted externally? Hell yeah. Has someone tried this already?

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.

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?

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

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

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