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Whenever female tries something misguided, it's female thing. When men do that, they are just individual assholes. Feminist might write the same article about L
by hannibal5 13y ago
Whenever female tries something misguided, it's female thing. When men do that, they are just individual assholes. Feminist might write the same article about Linus called "Male outburst faces opposition."
I admit that there may be correlation why Sharp is so vocally upset and his sex, but it's not the main issue. The issue is that he and some other people don't have experience of working in environment where raw and frank communication works well. Their only experience is from situations and cultures where it don't work.
Basically LKML has similar culture like highly competitive firms have in their boardrooms (Apple, MS, GE). If you fuck up and don't correct your behavior, you should feel hurt and miserable. The assumption is that people treat strong and emotionally loaded feedback as challenge and don't need affirmation for their self worth from the boss. This does not work in 9-5 jobs where people treat works as way to feed their family, of course.
Swearing is the only language spoken proficiently by programmers.