Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before?

Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by almost on Monday June 21, 2010 @05:43AM (#1448357)

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).

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by bnoordhuis on Monday June 21, 2010 @07:05AM (#1448458)

> 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...

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by alrex021 on Monday June 21, 2010 @08:32AM (#1448586)

>http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c...

Wow, that guy really is a dick.

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by sh1mmer on Monday June 21, 2010 @09:15AM (#1448686)

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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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by tlrobinson on Monday June 21, 2010 @12:25PM (#1449251)

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

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by judofyr on Monday June 21, 2010 @04:02PM (#1449884)

Which at least I find perfectly acceptable (as long as the projects are Hacker News worthy).

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by RyanMcGreal on Monday June 21, 2010 @08:32AM (#1448584)

I rather enjoyed this reply:

> To be fair, Marak is from New York. This, I'm told, is how they talk out there.

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by thwarted on Monday June 21, 2010 @09:48AM (#1448767)

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'".

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by petercooper on Monday June 21, 2010 @02:01PM (#1449527)

Hmm, 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.

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by ErrantX on Monday June 21, 2010 @04:46PM (#1450033)

Or Zedshaw's JS cousin.

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by bradleyland on Monday June 21, 2010 @04:56PM (#1450059)

Difference is, Zed actually knows what the hell he's talking about.

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by anaisbetts on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @03:21PM (#1455963)

And Zed doesn't steal other people's code and claim that he wrote it.

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by chc on Monday June 21, 2010 @07:09PM (#1450378)

Are 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.

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by jlcgull on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @10:13AM (#1451919)

... he could have Asperger's ??

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by po on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @10:28AM (#1451967)

Zed understands copyright law.

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by tlack on Monday June 21, 2010 @01:37PM (#1449457)

He 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.

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by supporting on Monday June 21, 2010 @08:53AM (#1448633)

If you'd like to see him in person, here's Marak, rapping on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrkDqh9ZVog

More Marak facts:

  * Rich kid from the Hamptons.
  * His website: http://www.jimbastard.com/

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by almost on Monday June 21, 2010 @10:07AM (#1448809)

C'mon, the guys been a bit of a dick but this is going a little too far I think. Let's reign back on the Internet Mob Justice.

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Re:Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before? by marak on Monday June 21, 2010 @11:12AM (#1449022)

hell yaa! post more of my internet rap videos please.

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