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You said something in 140 characters that was snarky and mean, that's actually not easy to do to be honest. And then you got called on it, and now you are getting criticized. Not nice, huh?

Actually, you know something... I correct myself. It is easier than I realised. I'm not sure that would be a skill I'd be proud of...

The internet doesn't disagree with him, a vocal minority of hyper sensitive cry babies and desperate white knights disagree with him. Very few people who don't care take the time to say "who cares?".

They care that you care? Why can't they not care that you care? Or is it the fact that they don't care that you care? Yet in that case then how can those who take the time to say "who cares?" say they don't care when they seem to care enough to ask who cares?

This is all very confusing.

Why is you confusing yourself posted as a response to me? You can mutter random nonsense to yourself offline, I don't need to be involved.

I take it from your response that you are the few who cares enough to say "who cares"? You sound a bit sensitive...

All you should take from my response is that I don't know why you replied with random nonsense.

A bit hyper-sensitive are we? That's the end of the thread from me though, my absurdist questions should have told you everything you need to know about my opinion of your horrid attitudes. Have a nice day: I fart in your general direction.

Classy. None of the "I am sorry if you were offended bullshit" just a sincere "I messed up". Take note, just about everyone else.

I agree. Everyone makes mistakes at some point and that apology seems to be the best possible way to deal with it IMHO.

Steve Klabnik has now also posted an apology http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2013-01-23-node

And unfortunately it is exactly the "I am sorry if you were offended" type.

I don't think it is. I think its the 3rd kind: "I didnt say what I thought you said, but I can see how I hurt you and I'm sorry". Assuming that's true - which I think is a reasonable assumption based on how he teaches and his blog post from last year about being nice - it would seem wrong for him to post a full out apology.

no it's definitely a "I'm sorry for offending you, but seriously fuck you for using node."

He definitely said that in the later tweets. Maybe you're right - its definitely less of an apology than his comments merited.

Super relieved to see that - I was seriously disappointed to see Corey's name in amongst the mob. That's how an apology should be written.

I just looked at his twitter feed, and he has a lot of "I made a mistake" posts. What he did was bad, but at least he is not trying to minimize it. And this thread getting to the top of Hacker News will probably teach him a lesson.

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