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This is so inadvertently affectionate. It's like a grandparent trying to calm down their overconfident, arrogant child. So eloquent. As a side note, I can't ev
by adriancooney 13y ago
This is so inadvertently affectionate. It's like a grandparent trying to calm down their overconfident, arrogant child. So eloquent.
As a side note, I can't even imagine how Torvalds worked with others without source control. That sounds like absolute hell.
- grandalf 13y agoexcept for the part where he mentions that they all gossip behind Linus' back.
- mathattack 13y agoThat's actually good grandfatherly advice too. It's worth knowing when people are talking behind your back.
- grandalf 13y agopointing it out in a public forum?
- mathattack 13y agoSure - why not? It is generally best to shed as much light as possible on gossip.
- grandalf 13y ago> It is generally best to shed as much light as possible on gossip. Do you say that as benevolent moralist or is it your personal preference that any gossip concerning you be addressed at you before an audience?
- mathattack 13y agoMore the latter, though the former holds true too. I'd rather people say things to my face before going behind my back. Organizations where there is more private than public communications tend to be very disfunctional.
- grandalf 13y agofair enough. I suppose your view is a form of radical honesty. In my observations, it takes a particularly mature person to take public shaming in stride, and I tend not to credit most people with that level of maturity.
- mathattack 13y agoThere are degrees in how harsh and public you should shame. If as a manager, I allow people to frequently complain about their peers with the other people absent, it sets up a terrible precedent. As manager I would become the bottleneck as people focus their energy on politics rather than problem solving. It's not black and white, but how you lean.
- aryastark 13y agoESR is a dick. I really don't know why others don't see it here. He's always been a bit of a long-winded blowhard, even when he's right. People worked without source control because CVS was not real version control. It was a bad joke, and Linus was right. Without integrity guarantees, a source control system is just a pain in the ass you'd rather not have to deal with. Tarballs, patches, and email worked fine back when the community was small and tight-knit.