Linus Torvalds not withstanding, I've never understood the "I can't be bothered with your idiotic questions because I'm so Goddamned smart" bullshit. I remember

Linus Torvalds not withstanding, I've never understood the "I can't be bothered with your idiotic questions because I'm so Goddamned smart" bullshit. I remember in the nineties if you had a question about Oracle or Unix and ran a search on most message boards all you'd find were snarky comments pissing on people for not following the posting rules or not reading some obscure documentation. It was completely counterproductive and one of the reasons I began to lose interest in development after college. I give a ton of credit to dhh and Joel Spolsky for bringing development to the masses by speaking in terms people not completely socially inept would respond to. As an aside, most developers I've worked with who put on the dickhole computer prodigy facade were just unhappy shitty programmers with zero communication skills. Obviously Linus is not who I'm referring to, but I think buffoonery displayed in abusive emails is emblematic of that attitude and sets a terrible example for developers who aren't Linus Torvalds. I can just picture a thousand mid level managers running around yelling at their reports thinking they're the next Steve Jobs.