Re:Torvalds: Standards need to be questioned
by BryantD on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:51PM
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This assumes consistency of tone over time. It'd be interesting to get some data on how his approach has varied over those 20 years. It'd also be difficult, since this is a somewhat subjective measurement, but perhaps a PPP (profanity per paragraph) metric.
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Re:Torvalds: Standards need to be questioned
by jarfil on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:47PM
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Linus used to be much more polite... until some developer attempted suicide after discovering, too late, that their patches were not going to be merged.
Since then he's much more direct, and his SPP (suicide per paragraph) metric is much better.