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This is the classic 'curse of the gifted' flame war between ESR and linus https://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3 https://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.
by awinter-py 11y ago
This is the classic 'curse of the gifted' flame war between ESR and linus
https://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3 https://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3
Robert Frost and TS Eliot had a similar conversation. Frost wrote eliot saying 'the problem with you is that you speak 13 languages and know nothing about real life'. Eliot responds 'the problem with you is that you're stupid'.
Age old debate, never fails to entertain.
- AndyMcConachie 11y agoThanks for reminding me that ESR used to be a reasonable person. I mean this in all seriousness, I had forgotten.
- masklinn 11y ago> Thanks for reminding me that ESR used to be a reasonable person. http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/dancing.html http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/dancing.html predates that by 5 years, so "could be reasonable" might be a better description than "used to be a reasonable person".
- copperx 11y agoI find his response to Linus condescending. He calls Linus a genius yet he speaks to him like an idiot. Perhaps that was the intended effect, but I wouldn't call his "praising while bashing" approach being reasonable.
- repomies691 11y ago"Robert Frost and TS Eliot had a similar conversation. Frost wrote eliot saying 'the problem with you is that you speak 13 languages and know nothing about real life'. Eliot responds 'the problem with you is that you're stupid'. Age old debate, never fails to entertain." I'm too stupid to understand how this is supposed to be entertaining...
- awinter-py 11y agothat's meta