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byJayhawk0123 ( 8440955 ) writes:
used to dislike Torvalds... but the older I get, the more his ways/views aligns with mine. He simply has no tolerance for people wasting time with stupidity and has been true to that with his work. If you're going to paste a link, it NEEDS to add something of value. If it simply circle jerks itself with not added context/new information, then they can fuck off. It's akin to msft and their updates and looking them up... often, the links circle back into each other not clarifying what it actually is... You'll end up running in circles trying to figure out what they're actually for.
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by93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) writes:
I'm in agreement with everything you said... except that, in this case, I expect the issue isn't stupidity - it's simply laziness.
Which is actually worse.
bymick232 ( 1610795 ) writes:
For me, it is the opposite. The older I get, the less I get annoyed by other people's mistakes. It's also a question of communication style when pointing fingers.
The way Torvalds complains about such things, at his age, makes him look like a weak person.
byrta ( 559125 ) writes:
Heh. i'm in the middle. I appreciate him for maintaining standards when it's so easy to just let things go so as not to make waves.
OTOH fully agree on the communication style and personal blame aspect. It's usually not too hard to refocus the phrasing on the activity and to express a preference for something without flipping your lid.
byAnonymous Coward writes:
how is this "flipping your lid" - he explained his position, with words and logic. he did not beat anyone up, delete the program, fire the person, or anything else like that.
are people so soft now that they cannot be told they are wrong and this is why and this is how to do it better?
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
But he's also changed.
He's replaced performative invective with very firm but rationally expressed opinions. That's much better IMO.
byswillden ( 191260 ) writes:
If you're going to paste a link, it NEEDS to add something of value.
This is valid... but you also have to consider that the value may be to someone other than Torvalds. It may be to people in the future who look at git blame looking to understand why something is the way it is, and for them a link to the patch email and any discussion that followed it may be very useful.
Perhaps they need to define a new tag "TorvaldsLink:", or less snarkily, "ReviewerLink:", that indicates that the link's intention is to provide information for the reviewer, so Torvalds knows that it's m
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