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Can someone explain what's funny here?

• intertextuality 8y ago
  Nothing. The person above does not realize that Linus doesn't yell like this at newbie committers. His rants are directed at people who -should- know better. I'm not justifying them, but there is quite a difference.
  • rdiddly 8y ago
    See my sibling comment to yours. The outrageousness and unlikeliness of yelling at a 4-year-old (the noobiest of noobs) is exactly why I found it funny in the first place.
• rdiddly 8y ago
  Apparently I'm the only one who thinks it is, so I'll volunteer that I found it funny because it's unexpected and shocking, yet almost plausible enough to be believed, given Linus Torvalds' track record as a sometime verbal abuser of adults. Speaking of which, I just realized it also includes an unintentional satirical subtext that highlights the difference between how Linus most likely treats children (probably not like this) and how he demonstrably has treated adults (exactly like this). Which isn't "funny" per se, but there's your explanation. Explanations are rarely funny either, nor do they generally result in suddenly getting the joke and laughing. But I suspect that wasn't your aim anyway.