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Linux was named after Linus. Linus admits that he named "git" after himself too. At least he had some self-awareness of his own "git"-ishness. Trump, for exam
by nige123 8y ago
Linux was named after Linus.
Linus admits that he named "git" after himself too. At least he had some self-awareness of his own "git"-ishness.
Trump, for example, is too far along the narcissistic spectrum to even feign humility.
The software industry is sadly plagued by empathy-free, narcissistic gits.
It's sad - Why?
Empathy is actually essential for creating good software (and good leadership too) - we write software for humans not computers.
Trump is sadly too far gone to show real empathy. Linus may be too ... but at least he's seeking help.
Peace Linus - I hope you find your true empathic self.
More empathy in the development of Linux would be truly great (and not in the Trump sense).
- mmirate 8y ago> we write software for humans not computers. The "humans" are in every case either ourselves or our customers. Empathy is certainly not needed when communicating with ourselves; and with the exception of the (rare) type of developer who also owns the company, the latter case has the indirections of Sales, TAM, Services, Tech Support and our managers. Hence, while the quoted statement is true by itself, it does not support the universal need for empathy for software-development.