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

Wow, that guy really is a dick.

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.

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

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

I rather enjoyed this reply:

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

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'".