the whole thing could have been averted with a simple "hey - great work so far - can I tweak a couple of things?" instead, you now have a blog post (and HN th

the whole thing could have been averted with a simple "hey - great work so far - can I tweak a couple of things?" instead, you now have a blog post (and HN thread) worth of analysis on something that should have been very simple. OTOH, no publicity is bad publicity, so it's all good in the end.