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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by ryanisnan on Thursday July 12, 2018 @01:14PM (#17516653)
In nearly all cases where parenting is present, children are inferior to their parents in both intelligence and judgement.

This analogy does not work in software.

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Re:“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from be... by icebraining on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:32PM (#17517332)
Repeating sametmax above: "That's the very point of a bdfl : it assumes he knows better than others."
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