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To disclaim: I submitted this story to HN because people on HN care about patio11's blog, and if someone gets internet points, might as well be me. Do not take this as an endorsement by me or anyone else on the Rails team, thanks.

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Wow, the non-drama drama comment. Very slick.

I'm sorry if you thought this was 'drama,' just trying to make sure that someone doesn't think that this is officially supported by the Rails team or that I'm speaking for anyone. Frankly, I've been running around at Ruby conferences saying "If you want old versions of Rails supported, you should be paying someone to do it," and I think Rails LTS is great, in a personal capacity.

That said, since I posted this, https://twitter.com/rails/status/346671286149337088

I heard you say this in MA this past weekend. Even more impressed that you ran there to do it :).

Thank you for helping get the word out about Rails 2.3.

Ignore the haters.

You know what? That was a dumb comment for me to write. I plead "commenting while I have the flu", and you're not the first person to get an egregiously snippy comment from me over the past couple days.

I apologize. I'll be more vigilant about what I'm posting while I'm not at my best.

I'm with you on LTS, by the way; it's a great idea.

Feel better!

I'LL KILL YOU GO TO HELL

er, thanks.

Between this and your crypto-cage-match with Colin, I think that HNers should chip in and send you a whole shit-ton of Dayquil on the regular or something. Been enjoying your comments more than in recent memory. :D

Thanks, Thomas. Honestly, the last two weeks of HN or so have been so flame-bait-y and vitriolic that I just assume everyone's tensions are high, and specifically you, since you hold a minority position on the NSA issue.

That said, I do appreciate the apology, and I hope you feel better soon. <3

That's unfair. Consider, hypothetically, a case where there is publicity on a subject that a Matasano employee has specific expertise about but which is also not orthogonal to Matasano's commercial interests. You can stipulate, if it helps, that the hypothetical employee is younger or less senior in the organization. They might reasonably decide to post something about that thing on HN or Twitter, and then follow it up with an out-of-an-abundance-of-caution disclaimer to head off any trouble at the office, right? That isn't double-secret-squirrel drama seeking, that's just trying to adapt to the weirdness of life as an employed social animal in 2013, where you have an ingroup-you and a public-you and occasionally they have to be both present in a conversation at the same time at cross-purposes to each other.

Yep. That was dumb of me.

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