Wow, what a dick this Marak guys seems to be. He steals someone's code (possibly laboring under a mistaken idea of how copyright law works) makes snarky comments about the original and then when he's called on it instead of just admitting his mistake he is rude and nasty about it (and still doesn't bother to check what the actual law is, which just makes him look like a total idiot).
Also a regular in the Node irc room (JimBastard). I just connected the dots. He won a ticket to JSConf by winning the pre-conference talk in a bar about JavaScript competition.
He seemed ok in person, and I know he hacks a lot of his own code, but I'm surprised what a dick he seems to be being. He definitely wasn't this much of a jerk face to face. Oh the Internet, this is why we can't have nice things.
Hmm, total dick, says controversial things, is supposedly "cool" in person, and hacks a lot of code.. Sounds like he could be HN's next flavor of the month.
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Wow, what a dick this Marak guys seems to be. He steals someone's code (possibly laboring under a mistaken idea of how copyright law works) makes snarky comments about the original and then when he's called on it instead of just admitting his mistake he is rude and nasty about it (and still doesn't bother to check what the actual law is, which just makes him look like a total idiot).
> Wow, what a dick this Marak guys seems to be.
He is a regular on the nodejs mailing list. An example of his, ha-hum, somewhat difficult disposition (break-down starts from the third post down):
http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c...
>http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c...
Wow, that guy really is a dick.
Also a regular in the Node irc room (JimBastard). I just connected the dots. He won a ticket to JSConf by winning the pre-conference talk in a bar about JavaScript competition.
He seemed ok in person, and I know he hacks a lot of his own code, but I'm surprised what a dick he seems to be being. He definitely wasn't this much of a jerk face to face. Oh the Internet, this is why we can't have nice things.
Also a HN member, though apparently only to promote his projects:
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=JimBastard
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=marak
Which at least I find perfectly acceptable (as long as the projects are Hacker News worthy).
I rather enjoyed this reply:
> To be fair, Marak is from New York. This, I'm told, is how they talk out there.
There are some choice ones in there. "Perhaps if we enforce a 'if this is your first night at nyc.js, you have to to speak'".
Hmm, total dick, says controversial things, is supposedly "cool" in person, and hacks a lot of code.. Sounds like he could be HN's next flavor of the month.
Or Zedshaw's JS cousin.
Difference is, Zed actually knows what the hell he's talking about.
And Zed doesn't steal other people's code and claim that he wrote it.
Are you sure this guy doesn't? He sounds like he's reasonably knowledgeable in his field, just kind of clueless about everything else in the world.
... he could have Asperger's ??
Zed understands copyright law.
He was on Reddit being a total douchebag too when I and others notified him that his great feat of engineering was just FIGlet done 20 years too late.
If you'd like to see him in person, here's Marak, rapping on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrkDqh9ZVog
More Marak facts:
C'mon, the guys been a bit of a dick but this is going a little too far I think. Let's reign back on the Internet Mob Justice.
hell yaa! post more of my internet rap videos please.