Is Mark Pilgrim pulling a disappearing act?
Mark Pilgrim is alive/annoyed we called the police. Please stand down and give the man privacy and space, and thanks everyone for caring. ... The communication was specifically verified, it was him, and that's that. That was the single hardest decision I've had to make this year.
Mark is annoyed?
It is Mark Pilgrim's right to disappear, but to disappear in a puff of greasy black smoke and 4̶0̶4̶s̶ 410s is just attention whoring and begging people to look for him and call the police.
There is no reason for Mark to be annoyed that some caring people looked for him. There is every reason for him to count his blessings.
I sincerely wish him the best and hope he recovers from whatever ails him, but please don't tell me how annoyed he is.
Come on. If I could, I would downvote you to hell. Seriously? You think nobody has a right to delete stuff they put there? They do not have the choice to lose interest in one thing and considering that maintaining it is a liability "take care of it" the old fashioned way? How can you be annoyed that a guy is annoyed that people sent a police car in front of his house. That is just the most ridiculous thing I heard since this morning.
FTFY.
(clicking on "x minutes ago" does it)
""" Let’s all talk about HTTP error code 410. ... Error 410 means Resource gone, as in, a resource used to exist at this location, but now it’s gone. Not only is it gone, but I don’t know (or I don’t want to tell you) where it went. ... Now, there is not a lot of information about error 410... I suppose because it addresses a condition that doesn’t come up very often. Also, we’ve all been brainwashed into believing that all resources should be permanent, which simply isn’t true. """ Google cache: http://bit.ly/qxdBi5
His servers are returning 410 errors but also the same very deliberate HTML:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>410 Gone</title> </head><body> <h1>Gone</h1> <p>The requested resource<br />/<br /> is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource.</p> </body></html>
Clearly Mark's invocation of the 410 error is deliberate.
This is troubling. I'm glad I downloaded Dive Into Python 3, at least.
He hasn't deleted his Hacker News Account yet. He last commented 27 days ago.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MarkPilgrim
[I loved his blog and I wish someone has archive for it. I did not archive it locally because Mark used to write articles about long term archival of his data and I didn't think he would ever delete all his public writings.]
I don't believe you can delete an HN account.
Hey everybody! Adobe has acquired another batch of awesome products that they will slowly ruin through incompetence and mismanagement!
From http://topsy.com/twitter.com/diveintomark/status/12091889959...
Mark Pilgrim is alive/annoyed we called the police. Please stand down and give the man privacy and space, and thanks everyone for caring.
So everyone stand down and respect Mark's wishes
Shouldn't we respect his wishes? If he wants to pull the plug on his online identity, he should be allowed to do so without HN sending out an internet search squad.
As far as I know he is still working at Google
Which is the proper punitive measure for anybody that actually teaches the usage of JDBC.
He'll return from the self-flagellation in two years after some time spent at a monastery.
I fully expect his enlightenment will bring much into the world of programming.
In October 2004, Mark stopped blogging after a post titled "Every Exit" which read: "It’s time for me to find a new hobby. Preferably one that doesn’t involve angle brackets. Or computers. Or electricity." [1] That post sat at the top of his previously very active weblog for 18 months until he returned in April 2006. Of course, that time he only stopped posting new material; he didn't delete all his existing resources. But he did disappear from online life for a while.
[1]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Mqb93dp...
http://twitter.com/#!/textfiles/status/121436177298493440
@textfiles (Jason Scott) Mark Pilgrim is alive/annoyed we called the police. Please stand down and give the man privacy and space, and thanks everyone for caring.
@textfiles (Jason Scott) The communication was specifically verified, it was him, and that's that. That was the single hardest decision I've had to make this year.
Dive Into Python 3: http://diveintopython3.ep.io/ GitHub: https://github.com/diveintomark/diveintopython3
Dive Into HTML5: http://diveintohtml5.ep.io/ GitHub: https://github.com/diveintomark/diveintohtml5
Source: http://twitter.com/#!/GlennF/status/121434638282530816
Source: http://twitter.com/#!/textfiles/status/121436177298493440
http://web.archive.org/web/20110726001259/http://diveintomar...
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quittin...
(discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3071854 )
