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How bad a boss is Linus Torvalds?

23 points by CrankyBear 11y ago

CM30 11y ago
Call me cynical, but have you noticed that the minute someone becomes unpopular with a certain community, all the press start releasing these articles questioning their work, management skills, etc? I mean yeah, Linus isn't the most civil person ever. But the timing just seems all too unlikely to be coincidental.
- jaimex2 11y ago
  Its all about the clicks.
  - k__ 11y ago
    Wasn't there a conspiracy theory about the "SJW"s setting him up or something?
    - GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
      ESR was worried about his precious bodily fluids. (http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/this-the-perfect-insane-anti-feminist-rumor.html http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/this-the-perfect-insane-a...)
Nadya 11y ago
>I did not want to work professionally with people who were allowed to get away with subtle sexist or homophobic jokes. So... another Adria Richards? Careful not to make any jokes about forking dongles! I don't want to work professionally with people who have a stick jammed up their ass - and it seems to me that most people agree. I'm trans. I find this comic [0] hilarious. Others would call it problematic, offensive, and even transphobic. I wouldn't want to work with any of those people. Asking people to bend over so you can shove a stick up their ass doesn't go well. I can see how this might come as a surprise to people who already have sticks, but I guess somebody needs to tell them... the stick isn't normal. The problem isn't that other people are missing their sticks, but that you have one. [0] http://i.imgur.com/kFurr3J.png http://i.imgur.com/kFurr3J.png
thieving_magpie 11y ago
Why is there a new article about the management style of Linus Torvalds daily? Let's stop with this hero worship crap. The guy is mean in emails - we get it. Move on.
gayprogrammer 11y ago
>empower community managers or other managers to encourage and enforce civil behavior. I don't disagree that it can be unpleasant, but you can't just change one thing about a community and expect everything else to stay the same. In reality, enforcing community changes will have unintended consequences. As the article freely admits, the best way to get quality contributions is to let the code speak for itself. If the named code was objectively bad, as the article suggests, then that programmer was doing his community a disservice by submitting it, and he needed his community to correct his behavior.

23 points by CrankyBear 11y ago

CM30 11y ago

Call me cynical, but have you noticed that the minute someone becomes unpopular with a certain community, all the press start releasing these articles questioning their work, management skills, etc? I mean yeah, Linus isn't the most civil person ever. But the timing just seems all too unlikely to be coincidental.

jaimex2 11y ago
Its all about the clicks.
- k__ 11y ago
  Wasn't there a conspiracy theory about the "SJW"s setting him up or something?
  - GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
    ESR was worried about his precious bodily fluids. (http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/this-the-perfect-insane-anti-feminist-rumor.html http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/this-the-perfect-insane-a...)

Nadya 11y ago

>I did not want to work professionally with people who were allowed to get away with subtle sexist or homophobic jokes. So... another Adria Richards? Careful not to make any jokes about forking dongles! I don't want to work professionally with people who have a stick jammed up their ass - and it seems to me that most people agree. I'm trans. I find this comic [0] hilarious. Others would call it problematic, offensive, and even transphobic. I wouldn't want to work with any of those people. Asking people to bend over so you can shove a stick up their ass doesn't go well. I can see how this might come as a surprise to people who already have sticks, but I guess somebody needs to tell them... the stick isn't normal. The problem isn't that other people are missing their sticks, but that you have one. [0] http://i.imgur.com/kFurr3J.png http://i.imgur.com/kFurr3J.png

thieving_magpie 11y ago

Why is there a new article about the management style of Linus Torvalds daily? Let's stop with this hero worship crap. The guy is mean in emails - we get it. Move on.

gayprogrammer 11y ago

>empower community managers or other managers to encourage and enforce civil behavior. I don't disagree that it can be unpleasant, but you can't just change one thing about a community and expect everything else to stay the same. In reality, enforcing community changes will have unintended consequences. As the article freely admits, the best way to get quality contributions is to let the code speak for itself. If the named code was objectively bad, as the article suggests, then that programmer was doing his community a disservice by submitting it, and he needed his community to correct his behavior.