Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is so special and magical

Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by mirko22 on Thursday July 06, 2017 @08:40AM (#14709892)

It's easy to call Linus a bully, abrasive what not... But I think a lot of people in his position, who get huge amount of code to review, and some of it pretty horrible would handle this even worse.

Also I think this is his way of filtering people that can't cope with him. If you are strong-willed enough you will go over what he said and try to make your code better otherwise you will just leave. Anyway he did not lose anything in his opinion.

I fully support his style of communication and think everyone should be able to choose how to lead their personal projects. If you don't agree with the community nobody is forcing you to join it. Not everything in life has to be nice towards you. Some stuff you remember better if it hurts.

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Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by tyingq on Thursday July 06, 2017 @08:51AM (#14709964)

It would be difficult to determine if his style has been an overall net benefit or net deficit though. Certainly things worked out well, but would they have worked out better if he took a different approach?

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Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by owebmaster on Thursday July 06, 2017 @09:15AM (#14710118)

One thing for sure is that nobody complaining made it better. RMS has his differences from Linus but isn't like these small issues. Linus is just straightforward.

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Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by tyingq on Thursday July 06, 2017 @09:19AM (#14710145)

>One thing for sure is that nobody complaining made it better

Talented people, that made concrete contributions, have left because they didn't want to deal with him. One example: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/06/linix_kernel_dev_wh...

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Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by ralfn on Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:48AM (#14710802)

Wouldnt the opposite be true as well?

I can imagine some one staying away from certain ecosystems because they are too nice to inconpetence. For example, say, how pythons standard JSON library intentionally and likely well intended, breaks the the standard and causes hours of debugging nightmare.

In a less friendly world this wouldnt fly and if i need something that actually works ill have a strong bias for the products of the "mean people"

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Re:Linux Torvalds: Every developer thinks that their code is... by gkya on Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:11AM (#14710531)

Linux is not his personal project at all. Just check out the copyright lines.

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