I have never seen myself or anyone I work with ever call another developers code “garbage”. Asshole behavior is never OK. Doesn’t matter if you’re Linus, Steve Jobs, or the other endless list of bullies who happen to have some talent.

That's amazing, for me it's been a pretty common occurence. I've written garbage code that has been called out; sometimes impolitely. I've called out garbage code; sometimes impolitely.

It's better to be polite of course, but I wouldn't call someone an asshole or a bully because they sometimes fail at that.

Lol linus torvalds, Steve Jobs, are... Bullies who have "some talent"

That's... That's a hard one to even entertain as being correct..

Can't say I agree. As far as things that could be said go, "garbage" is pretty tame

> More specifically, it's nice to be polite, which Linus usually is.

Haha. Um what?

I don't see thousands of his comments posted here for outrage every day but that has been his job for decades. People step in when he said something mean and point fingers "see that's how he always is". It's kind of a symptom of our time tbh.

Go read the LKML. He actually usually is.

> going around reviewing other people's discussions isn't really a valuable role in society

You are literally describing parenting, which has an extremely valuable role in society.

On a broader note, I recently had someone quote that classic adage "great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, simple minds discuss people" at me and I just had to push back. Conversing about the behavior of others is how, by design, humans negotiate cultural values, morals and etiquette. That's not something to be sneered at.

How do you equate reviewing other people's discussions with parenting?

Are you using the wrong word?

Parenting is what parents do towards children that are _their own_. Not random people on the Internet...