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I'm more astounded by the fact that Linus is on a social networking site like Google+. I'm really hoping he makes a Twitter account for his rant-I mean comment
by tsurantino 14y ago
I'm more astounded by the fact that Linus is on a social networking site like Google+.
I'm really hoping he makes a Twitter account for his rant-I mean comments :D
- bradwestness 14y agoGoogle+ seems to have been adopted by a lot of major players in the tech industry. Quite a few notable people post on it pretty regularly, possibly because it's hard to effectively tweet about technology issues in 140 characters. I'd probably switch to it exclusively too if I could use it to export to Twitter and Facebook.
- duaneb 14y agoWhat's the point of exporting it to twitter/facebook?
- eclark 14y agoLots of people who are not early adopters are still on FB and won't move for quite a while.
- AndrewDucker 14y agoYou don't need to move. You can got to _two_ websites.
- desas 14y agoAnd read the same things twice?
- kristianc 14y ago>> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." [1] HN's own style guide has sound advice for how Linus might shorten his posts to under 140 characters. [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- aptwebapps 14y agoI've never seen him post here. Does he have an account?
- batista 14y agoThis assumes that the "That is an idiotic thing to say;" is unimportant. On the contrary. 1) It gives a lot of pleasure to respond with it to idiotic ideas. 2) It adds emphasis and a sense of proportions to the error, ie. it's not just a simple mistake, it is an idiotic mistake. 3) It (hopefully) shames the perpetrator of the idiotic idea into thinking twice before speaking. It's not always appropriate, but a lot of times it is just the thing.
- SkyMarshal 14y agoLinus also works at Google. I suspect he'd probably still be exclusive to lkml otherwise.
- jemfinch 14y agoNo, he doesn't.
- irahul 14y ago> Linus also works at Google Linus works at Google?
- kinlan 14y agoNo he doesn't
- SkyMarshal 14y agoOops, must have seen him at a tech talk or something and didn't realize he was a guest.
- icebraining 14y agoI'd probably switch to it exclusively too if I could use it to export to Twitter and Facebook. I don't use it, but for social media you can use IFTTT: http://ifttt.com/recipes/search?q=google+plus http://ifttt.com/recipes/search?q=google+plus
- donniezazen 14y agoI wonder if Google requested him and other major dignitaries to adopt their social network site. Is he on other social networking sites like Facebook? If you follow the trending, a hugh number of trends are tech related and specific to Linux like #GIMP, #GDriveforlinux. A large number of G+ users seem to be geeks.
- lyman 14y agomaybe 140 chars is just not enough for his rant - i mean comments ;)