Maybe I've not been long enough in hacker comunities, but being rude when tacking the code is not exactly correct. I guess that if Marek had written just : Taken from blablabla and modified to work with blablabla Patorjk would be somewhat OK with it, but the way Marek did it... Don't know, it is being plain rude.
It is like hacker-newspaper came in and said PG's work is a lot of crap, removed some part of it and took credit. What do you think would happen?
He did actually make a bunch of negative comments when launching Hacker Newspaper, which is sort of interesting. He says he repackaged HN because HN's layout was crap, and its discussions were "ridiculous time-wasting garbage", so he wrote Hacker Newspaper, with a new layout and no comment threads, to "reach a higher level of information hygiene".
No, no, not necessarily. Follow HNN for a few months and you'll know about the archive-type and newsletter-type repackaging sites. I'm not behind any of them, and I know of them.
But your larger point, that Marak is a jerk - yeah, 100% agreed on that one.
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I assume you are behind http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/ , if not, how do you know? Just asking, not being picky.
Maybe I've not been long enough in hacker comunities, but being rude when tacking the code is not exactly correct. I guess that if Marek had written just : Taken from blablabla and modified to work with blablabla Patorjk would be somewhat OK with it, but the way Marek did it... Don't know, it is being plain rude.
It is like hacker-newspaper came in and said PG's work is a lot of crap, removed some part of it and took credit. What do you think would happen?
He did actually make a bunch of negative comments when launching Hacker Newspaper, which is sort of interesting. He says he repackaged HN because HN's layout was crap, and its discussions were "ridiculous time-wasting garbage", so he wrote Hacker Newspaper, with a new layout and no comment threads, to "reach a higher level of information hygiene".
See: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/04/miniapp-hacker-news...
And especially: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/04/miniapp-hacker-news...
No, no, not necessarily. Follow HNN for a few months and you'll know about the archive-type and newsletter-type repackaging sites. I'm not behind any of them, and I know of them.
But your larger point, that Marak is a jerk - yeah, 100% agreed on that one.
I follow HN but not as closely to find most things out :)