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This is my position: Words are just a way to express something we want to communicate, and their meaning must be considered within the context they are express
by izietto 13y ago
This is my position:
Words are just a way to express something we want to communicate, and their meaning must be considered within the context they are expressed.
When Linus says something like "This piece-of-shit commit is marked for stable, but you clearly never
even test-compiled it, did you?" https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/13/132 https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/13/132 , he clearly has an insane reaction to something that at the end isn't nothing more than a normal human mistake.
But what his exaggerated reactions want to really express is "I INSANELY care about kernel quality, so I have INSANE reactions to actions that lower its value", and in this way he subliminally transmits its kernel care to the subject of the rant.
What do you think about my interpretation?
- PavlovsCat 13y agoConsidering the he "despises being nice" because "that's just how he is", and can't express what he actually wants to say even though he was able to fucking create Linux, then I think he simply fulfills the cliché of the one-sided nerd: good with machines, bad with people, to the point of wanting people to be like machines. I can sympathize with that to a degree, but not really. Just because I share the sickness doesn't mean it's not a sickness.
- izietto 13y agoI think he succeeds to express what he actually wants to say, he just doesn't talk with your conscience, IMHO rightly: the emotions towards something is not a conscience matter, so it is worthless to communicate them to your conscience; it's better to talk with the part of your brain involved with emotions. About "despises being nice" this seem to me just a trait of an egocentric personality, which is fairly common in our individualist society between overachiever people (Steve Jobs is a classic example). I don't mean it is a pleasant behaviour, but frankly as citizen of a west country I'm used to it.