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Re:The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds) by cabalamat on Saturday March 27, 2010 @03:47AM (#1222721)
> 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.

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Re:The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds) by mahmud on Saturday March 27, 2010 @09:25AM (#1222934)
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.

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Re:The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds) by memoryfault on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @01:23AM (#1228459)
>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.

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