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Why the lucky stiff est le pseudonyme d'un écrivain, caricaturiste, musicien, artiste et programmeur informatique, anonyme mais prolifique, notamment connu pour son travail sur le langage de programmation Ruby. Il était, avec Yukihiro Matsumoto et David Heinemeier Hansson, une des personnes les plus connues de la communauté Ruby.

Le 19 août 2009, why the lucky stiff a fermé la totalité des sites où il publiait ses travaux sans donner la moindre explication. Peu de jours après, son nom réel Jonathan S. Gillette fut decouvert et publié.

Ses travaux ont été sauvegardés par leur republication sur d'autre sites.

Le 19 août 2010, le Whyday est organisé en hommage au travail de why the lucky stiff et ceci à l'occasion du premier anniversaire de sa mise en retrait du web. Wikipedia  

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“I felt aimless, but it felt fine. (This is not what I wanted to feel though. I wanted to feel a great absence, a longing, a distance that would finally inspire.)”

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“[T]he whole time I was having this conversation, I was mildy enjoying it, but it bothered me how little substance there was. I always feel this during movie and music conversations, that it's entirely constrainted to just naming things…Perhaps the greatest pain of it is how shallow it is compared to the actual experience.”

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“This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.”

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“Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels.”

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“Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do.”

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“There is no use in trying to judge everything but the condition you are in right now. You are absolutely delusional if you think that you know anything right now.”

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“I felt aimless, but it felt fine.”

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This is not what I wanted to feel though. I wanted to feel a great absence, a longing, a distance that would finally inspire.
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