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I'm amazed that this person apparently took more time to write a blog post than he spent reading the exchange he's talking about in its original context. If he
by bithive123 14y ago
I'm amazed that this person apparently took more time to write a blog post than he spent reading the exchange he's talking about in its original context.
If he had, then he'd realize how silly it sounds to chastise someone like Linus Torvalds, as though he has an obligation to spend his time making sure that everyone interested in open source is lovingly brought into the fold with the utmost deference to their ignorance.
But I guess these days missing the point entirely is as good as having real insight, as far as click generation is concerned.
- mistercow 14y agoWell, if Linus had actually called someone a moron "upon receiving a pull request on GitHub" like the post claims, then I think it would be a perfectly legitimate criticism. Calling someone a moron just for trying to contribute would be completely unacceptable, especially for someone like Torvalds. Of course, the problem is that Torvalds did not call someone a moron for submitting a pull request. He was responding to another person's comment on the request that has since been deleted. I think the lesson here is that GitHub maybe shouldn't let people delete their posts after they've been replied to.
- kenneth_reitz 14y agoIt seems I picked a poor example for my post. Sorry about that — the Linus stuff is removed. That wasn't the point anyway.
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