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The comments in the HN submission must be some new record in middlebrow dismissals. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515817 https://news.ycombinator.com/
by gozo 11y ago
The comments in the HN submission must be some new record in middlebrow dismissals.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515817
- _yy 11y agoAstonishingly so, since it's actually a very good article. Only one or two (minor) flaws in a long article about a technical subject, written by a journalist, is a good tally.
- epistasis 11y agoI think the article did a terrible disservice to the critics: there's lots of hot air in the article but little devoted to the meat of the critics complaints. Meanwhile, Linus' simple rebuttal is given full time, and seems completely reasonable. It wasn't until I read this post that I felt that the Linux maintainers may be doing some things wrong.