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Re:Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling a... by astura on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:12AM (#33244755)
He doesn't, but he does say that adults shouldn't be doing it, which can be interpreted as "grow up/act your age." I wouldn't really interrupt it that way, though.

>The whole "do an all-nighter to get the paper in the day before the [deadline]" is something that should have gone out the window after highschool. Not for kernel development.

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Re:Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling a... by coldtea on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:24AM (#33244827)
>I wouldn't really interrupt it that way, though.

How so? I don't see any other interpretation

And while he might not use the exact words, it's a pretty accurate editorialized summary of what he says here

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Re:Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling a... by astura on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:37AM (#33244898)
He's just explaining how kernel development is different from academics.
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Re:Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling a... by robinson7d on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:07AM (#33245073)
He did specify high school though, rather than college/university (or a generic like “school” or “academia”).

We’re probably all over-reading this quote but it did come off as a “grow up” comment in my reading as well, intended or not.

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Re:Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling a... by coldtea on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @06:07AM (#33259900)
>is kinda mean and should be reserved for when people are being extremely immature. Linus didn't say that.

Isn't being kinda mean Linus trademark?

"Grow up" vs "leave it at high school" is "potato, potatoh" kind of difference...

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