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I tend to think that Linus's opinions work well in the software world. And with that limitation, he's right. And he's right because we software people haven't y
by delinka 14y ago
I tend to think that Linus's opinions work well in the software world. And with that limitation, he's right. And he's right because we software people haven't yet found our own Unified Theory, if you will, to adhere to. In the meantime, "[t]he only way that problems get solved in real life is with a lot of hard work on getting the details right."
- wissler 14y agoOne of the reasons his methodology seems to work is that that's the only one that's allowed to work on that scale. Politics is definitely an issue, and politics is driven by how individual people think on average, and if how they think on average just isn't very good, then only the pragmatic approach can "work". That's not a problem with a system-building approach per se, it's a problem with it given the current state of intellectual development in the culture at large. People prefer a smattering of contradictions to a coherent truth.