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.
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> 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'".