Ask HN: Whatever happened to Mark Pilgrim?

Posted by RyanMcGreal on Thursday November 17, 2011 @07:53AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Mark Pilgrim, the celebrated author of Dive Into HTML5, Dive Into Python and other programming books disappeared from the internet about a month ago [1]. I'm just wondering if anyone knows what happened to him.

[1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/10/04/searching-for-mark-pilgrim/

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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Mark Pilgrim? by manuscreationis on Thursday November 17, 2011 @08:09AM (#3247494)

Also curious about this, i loved both of those works and was sad to see them disappear.

I know the HTML5 one has been re-hosted in a few places, not sure about the Python one... regardless of how the original author may feel about his works being shared without his consent.

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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Mark Pilgrim? by RyanMcGreal on Thursday November 17, 2011 @10:16AM (#3247868)

> regardless of how the original author may feel about his works being shared without his consent.

If diveintomark.org was still up, I'd be able to link to Pilgrim's amazing "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you" essay, which defended his decision to licence his books under the GNU Free Documentation License. Here's the HN discussion on that piece:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=891726

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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Mark Pilgrim? by manuscreationis on Thursday November 17, 2011 @11:30AM (#3248158)

Good to know, thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Mark Pilgrim? by pasbesoin on Friday November 18, 2011 @02:32PM (#3253027)

Since he allowed the work to be cached, I'll assume this is ok not just legally but also personally:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110514112625/http://diveintomar...

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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Mark Pilgrim? by setzer on Thursday November 17, 2011 @03:30PM (#3249079)

diveintopython has also been rehosted -- I have this saved as a bookmark:

http://www.diveintopython.net/

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