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The key here is not to take the cursing personally. He's cursing the code not the coder. He don't hate specific persons. He can curse you on one not-so-good pat
by lucio 8y ago
The key here is not to take the cursing personally. He's cursing the code not the coder. He don't hate specific persons. He can curse you on one not-so-good patch and praise you on another. The anger it's not directed at the person.
- BeetleB 8y ago>He's cursing the code not the coder. That's objectively not true. He may intend to curse the code, but he is clearly cursing the coder.
- O_H_E 8y agoHe didn't mean to direct it at a person, but he used a language that everybody would understand as statement directed at a person. And he is apologizing for the fact that he didn't realize that.
- joesb 8y agoHow does saying someone writing that code should die as a baby attacking the code?
- lucio 8y agodon't spin it. He wrote: >I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted "retroactively aborted" is a dark joke, if you have a sense of humor, and conveys how bad a decision Linus think is to make a system call to read each byte. saying "should die as a baby" is a spin. To be precise is important.