From: David Masover Date: 2009-08-24T07:34:40+09:00 Subject: Re: Why, oh why, _why? On Friday 21 August 2009 12:45:07 am Phrogz wrote: > On Aug 20, 2:08 pm, Karl von Laudermann > > wrote: > > _why the lucky stiff appears to have disappeared from the > > internets!http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/08/20/resig-why > > Among the terrible consequences of this, one of the lesser but still > notable is that someone with the power needs to edit ruby-lang.org to > remove the link to tryruby.hobix.com That is sad, and probably the first time I've been truly burnt by an online service... That is, while I imagine someone may have his "freaky freaky sandbox" somewhere, I'll no longer be able to point people to that amazing introduction. It was something like fifteen or twenty minutes, even for non- programmers, and served as an amazing introduction to Ruby and programming in general. Perhaps I'm being selfish, but I think that's one thing I'll miss the most. Much of his other work has been either saved or replicated somewhere (many seem to be using Nokogiri instead of Hpricot these days), and while I enjoyed his sense of humor, I found the poignant guide to be confusing more than anything else. But that in particular, and perhaps where Hackity was eventually going -- I actually sat my mother down with that, and she was able to understand what was going on, and had fun doing it. I suppose what's creepy now is looking in Google Cache and seeing him describe himself as someone "who will die young and make no lasting impression." Like everyone else here, I hope he's alright.