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It is not the same. The level of insult conveys the information of how wrong the patch/bad the situation is, in Linus's view. That's important information. Fr
by lucio 10y ago
It is not the same. The level of insult conveys the information of how wrong the patch/bad the situation is, in Linus's view.
That's important information.
From Torvalds:
The fact is, people need to know what my position on things are. And I can't just say "please don't do that", because people won't listen. I say "On the internet, nobody can hear you being subtle," and I mean it.
And I definitely am not willing to string people along, either. I've had that happen too—not telling people clearly enough that I don't like their approach, they go on to re-architect something, and get really upset when I am then not willing to take their work.
- rtpg 10y ago- This looks good - this looks bad - this looks extremely bad - this is dangerous, I imagine you can exploit this - You can easily exploit this code with attached example A free scale if you need to convey degree of good/badness for attached code. CC0 license. This is a bit snarky, but I do think that a bit of effort can be made to describe code as being bad without declaring that the author's mother should have aborted them.
- icebraining 10y agoWell, taking the "shut the fuck up" incident, the scale was used at the maximum level (an example of the commit breaking a program was provided, with a patch fixing it) and the maintainer insisted it wasn't really a bug because the app was holding it wrong. Therefore, your scale needs an extra level.