[lusis]

IMHO, the thing that bothered me about the whole exchange was that it could have been avoided with a little bit of common courtesy. Instead it turned into a "oh let's go roll that pull request".

I picked up pretty early on that antirez wanted to know the "why" first since one of his stated goals was keeping deps to a minimum. What could have been a nice productive discussion about crypto standards was fucked up by ego, asshattery and language barriers.

Oh and github pull requests are TOTALLY the appropriate place to have those kinds of discussions =/

[thaumaturgy]

Absolutely. Coda Hale's "fuck tact" statement does a neat job of ignoring that "fuck tact" leads to stupid arguments like this.

[Fluxx]

Oh totally agree. I saw on person who commented on Salvatore's blog that said, "I just lost all respect for you and your project (Redis)." That seems like a rather large knee-jerk reaction.