Re:The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds)
by mahmud on Friday March 26, 2010 @08:04PM
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Eric Raymond comes off patronizing with his "listen to grandpa" bit. He shrouds his argument in a weird "Unix tradition" argument, and appeals to heritage, culture and other nonsense as if computing was his village and he the elder.
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Re:The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds)
by memoryfault on Friday March 26, 2010 @11:03PM
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I think the intent was to make Linus feel like the child he was (is?). I thought it worked. Linus is quite patronizing in practically all of his e-mails, so I don't see why others wouldn't return the favor.
Re:The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds)
by cabalamat on Saturday March 27, 2010 @03:47AM
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> I think the intent was to make Linus feel like the child he was
At the time the email was written, Linus was 30.
> Linus is quite patronizing in practically all of his e-mails
Maybe so, but -- for me at least -- Linus has earned more of a right to be patronising than ESR has.
Re:The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds)
by mahmud on Saturday March 27, 2010 @09:25AM
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Who voted down this guy?
Linus earned his stripes; 30, 20 or 10 years old, the man delivered a world-class piece of software.
Patronizing him is just pulling non-existent rank so ESR doesn't feel like a fish out of water. Remember, while Linus oversaw the hottest piece of Unix software to come in decades, Eric Raymond was making a living off of "seniority" and "lore".
Eric Raymond is the spokesperson of an "in-crowd" whose membership he didn't earn.
Re:The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds)
by memoryfault on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @01:23AM
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>At the time the email was written, Linus was 30.
I don't see what your point is. I clearly didn't mean that he was literally a child.