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>"I'm terrified of doing anything that would make me look like a jerk in front of my family and friends." That just doesn't seem true. He consistently goes out
by ruswick 13y ago
>"I'm terrified of doing anything that would make me look like a jerk in front of my family and friends."
That just doesn't seem true. He consistently goes out of his way to engage in trivial arguments with people, especially on Twitter. Literally days after the sale, he called out Anil Dash in a needlessly confrontational way about some minute error in his history of Tumblr (http://dashes.com/anil/2013/05/seven-years-ago-my-wife.html http://dashes.com/anil/2013/05/seven-years-ago-my-wife.html). Not to mention the time when got in some squabble with a writer for one of the Apple rumor sites, then blacklisted said site from every Instapaper account.
As far as I'm concerned, he's made a jerk of himself in public innumerable times already. He just seems like an abrasive guy. That's not to say that his work is inferior (certainly assholes have created incredible work before), but any fear of looking like a jerk is moot. He has been a jerk forever.
- carlesfe 13y agoMany geeks are too cynical and abrasive over the internet, but good people when you talk to them (or when you can hear them talking). This is the case for most of HN people, most geek websites, and Marco, too. What the heck, I can include myself there. One thing is to write angry tweets, and in a very different level, would have been shutting it (or Instapaper) down just because he's burned out. He cares about his users.