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I think you need to read the email again. You failed to see his point.

You are trying to create uniformity and conformance, which is not in our nature. Some people are polite, others are not (Linus for example). The working environment of the kernel mailing list is public and subject to harsh language because it's run (rather successfully it could easily be concluded) with the philosophy that people should be able to express themselves.
This article is a mess. It's talking about a whole variety of NTFS redirection features, but only some of them existed in 2000. It also got me confused, I should have said 'those reparse points', not just 'reparse points'.

In 2000 you could make junction points but they only worked on directories. 2000 also supported multiple hard links to a single file. But what the article talks about, individual soft links for files, didn't get added until Vista. Despite it being a standard feature on filesystems going back decades.
More like writing "this won't hurt" on a baseball bat and hitting yourself in the face with it. And expecting not to hurt yourself.
Wow, that sounds like something American cops would do. That's awful.
i have made cool things in sculptris previously, this is awesome on my pc. gotta try it on the tablet now!
I know now what I could tell to a young nerd who's been bullied:

Don't worry, later you'll be able to do the same

I guess it's a great example for young peoples that you can get away with any despicable behaviors as long as you have done something worthwhile in your life. People are then able to rationalize that by saying it was "warranted" or "thought provoking" or any garbage they can find to justify it, because somehow that person is in their "tribe".

Yes it's more efficient to say "I don't like that because X, Y or Z, change that." than "I don't like that because X, Y or Z, CHANGE THAT PIECE OF SHIT". Otherwise, you're implying that without swear words, Linus wouldn't have any power over the kernel.

Ridiculous isn't it?
Since they didn't mention it they're probably A) definitely screwed or B) very humble developers who do not wish to bait the wrath of Nintendo into whatever remote territory they (or their code) resides. B might be a little optimistic. Can you think of any countries where this would be protected (under some freedom of speech or fair use) for non-commercial interests?

Note: The Pokémon Company alone has headquarters in Japan, the UK, and the US.
I love some of the SO sites but they have a lot of communities that have been lingering in beta limbo for ages.

I would be interested in more detail on how they reached the conclusion that pump priming is not useful. Do you have a link?
to be clear, i'm not against swearing in all circumstances. in some relationships, in some circumstances, it's perfectly fine, but it's an implicitly negotiated rule that both parties understand. i'm thinking, eg, of most male friendships that go back a long way, but i could also see it between two sales guys who've been in the trenches together, etc.

the point is it's taken in a certain spirit, and you can't force people who don't know you well, or don't share that sensibility, to partake of that spirit.

even if you personally prefer that style, it's hard to argue that it's effective from a practical perspective. for the large majority of people, the first example is far more likely to actually get you your desired result than 2nd.
just a quick follow up - I noticed that "is sounds unlikely" is doubting your statement - I am sure the directional / location of wifi is pretty accurate - its just my intuition about such things is so wildly off I would need to do some cacls on signal strength over metres of distance.

Interesting thanks
That was hilarious but rather profound at the same time. Interestingly, I was going to write on a similar topic in the next few weeks or so, but from a different angle. I may still do it.
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It would be interesting to see good examples of how others have recruited, and not ended up with near-100% male developer employees.
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Correct, it's called stylometry and means, given enough data, your normal writing is identifiable on the basis of content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry
And yet another comment chiding Torvalds for not maintaining civility... while insulting him ('being a douche').

You talk about being 'incapable of realising' - perhaps review your own comment.
He gets a free card to be rude and you get a free card to not like him and never do any favours for him and he gets a free card to not care what you think, do or don't do.

I am yet to see him abusing anyone. Verbal abuse mentioned is just swearing in aggressive tone of voice. How the word abuse got attached to expressing being pissed off is a mystery to me but I think it involves american lawyers.
I remember a distro called something like LiveFirefox (can't remember the name exactly) which came with RatPoison and Firefox only. The .ratpoisonrc file disabled all key bindings, and somehow they managed to disable all text ttys, so it was effectively a browser-only disto.
I use it for when I completely understand a skill. On the continuum from unconscious incompetence -> conscious incompetence -> conscious competence -> unconscious competence I see it as the last step.
I'm just thinking, maybe the NSA should start their own cloud storage service, cut out the middle man, you see.

Think about it, free, no size or bandwidth restrictions, and if you use encryption they'll probably keep a backup for you, forever.
This is excellent! Thanks for this, it complements (replaces even) very nicely my usual means of learning a new API call - that is 'read relevant SO post; look up each main function call on developer docs; hunt down further clearer 'real world' examples".

Also if you are doing android development in general (anyone) I can't recommend the android-query (http://code.google.com/p/android-query/) library enough; it's saved lots of time and makes a lot of common tasks much easier.
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Making people do things against their will or fear punishment by death is not exactly the same thing is swearing at someone is it?

Anyone who works with Linus does so freely and can stop at any time they choose.

Furthermore, applying today's morale standards to civilizations thousands of years old doesn't strengthen your point as well as you think it does.
Repression is also bad. Moderation is key.
Funny enough, I've always held Pokémon to be the perfect intersection between a massively multiplayer game and an alternate-reality game. After you've completed the main quest, the endgame is you roaming the in-game world and collecting pokémon, while meeting people in the real world and having your in-game worlds interact by battling each other, trading pokémon and more, in the newer games.

I think an actual Pokémon MMORPG just wouldn't be the same really.
http://pokemonshowdown.com/ (MIT License)
This is an incredibly well written reply; it sums up the basics of mindfulness in a very short space. Have you written any more on the subject?
Maybe, I don't know. My concern is, that I would like to continue to use Windows 8, but not Skydrive. If there wouldn't be such a possibility, I could revert to Win 7 (although I don't like this idea, since Win 8 is superior product overall).
Agreement not to be nasty to people mostly protects people in a weak position. It's a long time since that has been Linus, so it's not surprising he's forgotten the merits of it.

Say 'Sarah Sharp' was hired by her company as a kernel developer. She knows that, if she makes a commit and Linus doesn't like it, he will write up what she has done like it was terrible (rather than slightly careless, or even just different from how he'd do it), and her boss will doubt her competence. Twice, three times, appears on google when he searches for her name... maybe she'll need a new employer...

So Sarah can either throw away her Linux expertise, and go work on BSD for way less money, or live in fear of Linus. Personally, I don't like living in fear. But presumably, she likes renting a house for her kids to live in. So there is nothing she can do except wake up in the night, unable to sleep until she checks the mailing list one last time.

I'm sure Linus doesn't care if she cusses at him. His worst case isn't homelessness.
No the issue in the UK is the concept of vehicular cycling (you ride your bike and pretend you are a car and share the road space). It has been the main way the UK has pushed cycling for decades. Only recently (last couple of years) has there been a massive push to stop pretending this is actually working.

This is mainly driven through by cyclists becoming more politically motivated to affect a change.

What it comes down to is segregation of transport types; cars from bicycles; pedestrians from bicycles.
A mailing list is threaded comments just like HN. Are you criticizing the page style of a particular list viewer or do you find HN equally uncomfortable?
> you're in the company's network

Yes, of course. What's incorrect?

I'm just saying that if you have unlimited ability to make secret tapping demands from whoever you want, you might as well make it easy for yourself and just go straight to the source.
UI design has always been about abstracting away underlying complexity and presenting a virtual wizard to manipulate the underlying code.

Would it not be more 'digitally authentic' to present 1's and 0's?

'Flat design' is as much an arbitrary aesthetic as 'decorative design', and whilst I agree it's very pleasing and a sight for overloaded eyes, it's most certainly a trend and not an objective improvement on interfaces usability design.
Thanks - I'll have a look at androidquery.
I don't see that as abuse. I've lived with abusive people. They slowly but surely try to destroy you mentally, not through cussing, but in other ways that might even seem friendly at first.

Being told what you did was moronic is very different to being told you are a moron.

Linus is rude, not abusive. There is a difference.
Why would it matter? He's correct about office environments.
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I still wonder how much of an advantage you could get by building an OS that really is only the browser layer. iirc Chrome OS still have a linux layer. Wonder how much "junk" you could get rid of architecture-wise if you just look at browser-needed stuff.
It's technically different but in practice people react pretty much same way when you tell them they did something stupid and when you tell them they are stupid if it was propmpted by them doing someting stupid.
For several years I did maintain a private kernel fork for my then-employer.

I was not interested in contributing any of our work (mostly netfilter related) back to the core precisely because I have better things to do with my emotional energy than engage with the aggressively toxic personalities of LKML.

That's one of the joys of open source, of course, doing your own thing.

In contrast I had a much better experience contributing to Postfix and Dovecot, where the benevolent dictators did not feel the urge to spew pages of vitriol in response to a blunder when a neutrally worded admonishment would do.
After a few years of tangible disdain for me and after ridiculing me saving his business, I recently refused to work for someone with a succinct 'I quit'.

Of course it was later followed up by telling him to go fuck himself but that's how things go.
http://pokemmo.eu/

Would this be what you're looking for? Basically turns pokemon red into an mmo, even uses ROMs for the content.
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> “Sorry, we’re not going to take this code... "

Why are you apologizing?
Yes, definitely not angural.js. It would be still interesting to see their mobile webapp stack.
You really shouldn't call people "fucking stupid" for making mistakes in code. They're clearly not stupid, they're writing complex computer code for a big project. Calling them "fucking stupid" is as much a lie as throwing out empty compliments, and just as counter productive. Smart people don't need to be beaten into shape, just like they don't need to be mollycoddled. If you're being abusive in the workplace, it's because of your own emotional needs, not the people you're being abusive to.

If someone commits code that is fucking stupid then by all means call the code fucking stupid. But then actually take the time to identify the cause for the mistake. Is that programmer following best practises? Are they being careless? Are they working on something they don't have the expertise for? Are they spread too thin? If you identify the problem you can try to fix it. Instead of abuse, you should be giving clear and direct instructions on how to not make mistakes like that ever again. If you call someone "fucking stupid" then you incorrectly identify the problem and, moreover, you're being abusive, which can be very harmful.
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See, the danger with Linus, and to a similar extent Steve Jobs, is that you will now get a bunch of mediocre developers or managers believing that the best way to get stuff done is to act like an arsehole.

It worked for those two. There are probably a few other people in history it has worked for as well (Patton?). You are not them. If you treat people badly it will bite you in the arse.
Dunno what your criticisms are about. I've used yahoo, specifically the email for something like 15 years. In all that time, I have had less trouble than any other site. For example, using gmail as an evaluation has caused me more grief in a short space of time than yahoo mail over it's life time.

Like much of this sort of thing, I think its brand hating for the hates's sake.

I have never "liked" yahoo or been a "fan", but I know I use it, I know it works, and I know it has been grief free. It just works.
I really, needed to read these exact words this morning. Thank you to the author. Now time to refocus!
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Why not just ask them not to commit?
If it's not meant in an ironic sense, then why post the comments? You have people complaining that someone isn't acting professionally... and then not acting professionally. It serves to bolster Torvalds' point, not weaken it.

If the response is 'context', then it should also be pointed out that we only ever see the slimmest speck of his emails from the list and we never see them in the context in which they're presented. As someone else in the thread mentioned, we don't see the many messages where he doesn't behave this way; we don't see the actual personality that is seen when working with him.
sorry to hear london doesn't accept bicyclists and doesn't provide infrastructure for them. can't imagine riding them on pavement.

that being said, zero stopping power? i used the trike to transport various heavy things (not children though) and the two front disc brakes had no problem stopping me immediately. maybe you just had bad luck with yours?
I only have one Linus story. Way back in 2007, he was supposed to come and give a talk on git. I had to do an on-site interview with a candidate immediately beforehand, but managed to get it done and got there in time to see the talk start. I had never seen him in person and figured it might be interesting, particularly since I had actually used git on some projects prior to that point.

This wound up being recorded, and it's online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

I think I lasted ten minutes and left after deciding it was too much. There was enough of that kind of energy going around already to willingly sit there and take in more. Besides, I had an interview to write up.
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The fact that it works does not mean that it can't be improved.

And a context that scares people off is not one that I would say "works".
What do you mean, precisely? Is there some other meta code of conduct where calling obnoxious behavior unprofessional is itself a violation?

It beggars disbelief that some posters here can't see that torvald's insults add noise to his critiques. He states the issue, then ads in a bunch of pointless aggression. It seems like being honest succinct and to the point is most efficient. If your undies are truly in a bunch, you could add a comment at the end along those lines.
I don't think luck plays that big a part. But regardless, As you said, execution is very integral to the success of the project and since Linus, has executed the project so well over the years, it does say something about the execution style(it works and people still support him as well as the way he leads :).
You're thinking of Super Mario Bros X, and IIRC Redigit did actually get a cease and desist for it.
I did not mean to call Torvalds names. Apparently I wasn't careful enough in my wording.

I meant to express my frustration how the community often accepts socially inacceptable behaviour from accomplished people.

When "normal" people fall into a rage, we tell them to learn coping with their anger. If they keep yelling angrily at people, we might even suggest they see a psychiatrist. Not as an insult, but because we sincerely believe that they could maybe learn some coping strategies to get along better with other people.

But for some people the rules are different. When someone complains that Steve Jobs verbally abused his employees, or when someone complains that Linus Torvalds uses unnecessary profanity, a lot of people start to justify this behaviour. They claim it is necessary for their success, etc.
Some thing can happen in spite of things, instead of because of them.

Some people link Job's success to his attitude. But his attitude didn't make him successful, it was his vision and ability to convince people.

That said, I think Linus is fairly professional in the core of his communication. Just because you swear doesn't mean that the message you're passing along isn't.
Interesting article. I think the same story can be applied to the GoPro company creation. Although much younger, it's based on very similar elements as described in the article.
Leaner and lighter variants -- such as the Bullitt -- exist:
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> There are even people who perform better when you swear around them, because they don't feel like they have to control their language.

The closest friend I'm with the more I swear. What I don't get is people awkwardly swearing in presence of people they just met. I see it as attempt to desperately get connection to other people.
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Too much profanity? Well butter my ass and call me fucking skittles!

So you want to censor everyone who doesn't buy into your flowery child talk? Fuck that.
Cursing is a perfectly fine means of setting emphasis and I sure as shitpissfuckcuntcocksuckermotherfuckertits am not going to surrender that just so some shithead I don't even care about can jack off to his or her little control fantasies.

You don't like that? I couldn't really give less of a fuck; You're supposed to be a tech person, write a few sloc to filter profanity out or something but don't get on my nerves with that shit.

And yes, that was offensive and I am fully aware of that. That was also exactly what I was going for.

I have to concede that abuse is never a good thing, but since you seem to be seeing profanity as a problem I'm not sure we could agree on what exactly constitutes an 'abuse'.

EDIT:

It was (correctly) pointed out that censoring communication was not mentioned or even necessarily implied in smtddr's comment so this might not apply to said comment. That said, this still reflects aptly what I think about censoring away profanity.
Were it not Linus, nobody would bat an eyelid, because it's the "internet". Heck, just look at some of the comments here, they're not full of capitalized swear words yet they manage to be more nasty and hurtful than Linus was.
A society with a massive surveillance dragnet that everyone has access to is not necessarily totally transparent.

Public access to the dragnet data would make it easier to evade the dragnet.
Cheers for the reply! Myname at gmail is the best address. Didn't mean to be disparaging about the service which looks fantastic if it were in budget.
"None of the companies involved should obey the law in this matter"

Lets see how you will behave when people with guns tell you they will take your property and probably you for not obeying the orders.
Pretty much anyone can excel at the level of dedication shown in the speech. The question is whether you can conjure up that dedication at will, to point at a chosen goal. If yes, god, if no, robot.
Yeah "perkeleen vittupää" is a pretty "bad" swear/insult. You really have to be upset about somebody to call them that. "Fucking cunthead" is a pretty direct translation :)
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>It saves time when you don't have to carefully structure each criticism in a compliment sandwich and so forth.

I can only imagine only the most socially incompetent people would actually find it a major time-sink to say things civilly. You don't have to make a compliment sandwich, saying "Your kernel patch throws a bunch of warnings, what the fuck is this?" is hell of a lot better than "which one of you retards can't read the guidelines?"

The basis of civility is to avoid personal attacks when it's not about the person. This isn't about the person. You can be civil and still be pissed off.
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Not in my experience. (Anecdotal evidence - we all produce it and it always smells the same.)
> Not good comparison. A country is essentially a fixed physical plot of land, with people, resources, climate, etc. If you leave a country you have to leave all of those things (and more) behind.

Yes it is. Saying you can just fork it is like saying you can just move yourself and all your family and friends to another country.

You might be able to move yourself but moving any significant amount of developers is in practise impossible.
this did not need to be aired out infront of anyone - just like theo handles his business, let linus handle his how he wants. maybe theo rubbed off on him. maybe people like OP can go fuck themselves.
@flumbaps - Because it's more impolite and hurtful? People tend to be more hurt by clear rejection then they are by being called stupid for something they did.
Sound interesting!
Thanks for sharing the information.
I think my expertise will be able to reduce overheads and costs to companies. It will solve new problems and old problems in a better way. It will automate things and make communication easier and make people more productive and more informed with better data. That is about it really. Not thinking of world peace or anything at the moment.
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You're [dead], create a new account. I don't know why you're banned, your comments are mostly pertinent and not boring. Maybe the admins don't like Europeans ^^.
This website did a full screen pop up ad for MacKeeper including an Alert box when I clicked play on the video.

Additionally this looks good for an amateur project but it hardly looks like a fully realized polished game.
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