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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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