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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 comment
by almost 16y ago
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).
- bnoordhuis 16y ago> 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/c332756b714d692e/f207a05f505cab2b http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c...
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoI rather enjoyed this reply: > To be fair, Marak is from New York. This, I'm told, is how they talk out there.
- thwarted 16y agoThere 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'".
- alrex021 16y ago>http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c332756b714d692e/f207a05f505cab2b http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c... Wow, that guy really is a dick.
- sh1mmer 16y agoAlso 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.
- tlrobinson 16y agoAlso a HN member, though apparently only to promote his projects: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=JimBastard http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=JimBastard http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=marak http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=marak
- judofyr 16y agoWhich at least I find perfectly acceptable (as long as the projects are Hacker News worthy).
- supporting 16y agoIf you'd like to see him in person, here's Marak, rapping on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrkDqh9ZVog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrkDqh9ZVog More Marak facts: * Rich kid from the Hamptons. * His website: http://www.jimbastard.com/
- tlack 16y agoHe 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.
- petercooper 16y agoHmm, 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.
- ErrantX 16y agoOr Zedshaw's JS cousin.
- bradleyland 16y agoDifference is, Zed actually knows what the hell he's talking about.
- chc 16y agoAre 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.
- jlcgull 16y ago... he could have Asperger's ??
- xpaulbettsx 16y agoAnd Zed doesn't steal other people's code and claim that he wrote it.
- po 16y agoZed understands copyright law.