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Personally, I would have no problems working with him. I expect people to call me out when I do stupid things, and I expect people to tell me what they think.

by ori_b 17y ago

Personally, I would have no problems working with him. I expect people to call me out when I do stupid things, and I expect people to tell me what they think. I don't think Zed is much more abrasive than Linus, for example.

xenophanes 17y ago
Also, has he been abrasive to people who were being nice to him?
- gaius 17y ago
  The entire Ruby community, at one point. Why do you think he switched to Python?
  - joevandyk 17y ago
    obviously because the entire Ruby community hated him.
abstractbill 17y ago
I have no problem being told face-to-face when I'm doing stupid things, even in front of my peers if it happens that way, but someone blogging about the stupid things I do would definitely piss me off.