An oldie, but a goodie

  • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, that’s a hard pass on passive aggressiveness, constructive criticism isn’t either of those things nor rude and angry ranting. Love Linus, but he really did need to chill out a bit more with these things. He could have gotten the same point across without coming across as yelling at the guy, just firmly pointing out that it was caused by the patch, the patch did things it shouldn’t ever do, and don’t break userspace or blame userspace programs

    • dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Yeah this kind of attitude is never a productive strategy unless you want to surround yourself only with assholes. It also demonstrates a complete lack of ability to manage humans and keep your values straight when you become upset and stressed out, which is a massive red flag to hold up as someone running a project.

      In general it seems like a lot of people get into computers because they think it is a magic fantasy land where you don’t have to practice people skills and interact with other humans… when like every other industry after a certain seniority in a project it always, always, always comes down to managing humans and human interaction skills. The idea of the tech wizard programmer who can be an asshole because they are a genius at coding is just so tired at this point.

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        11 months ago

        Yea, that Linux thing will never amount to much with this kind of strategy.

        But wait. …

        • dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          Just because it worked doesn’t mean it wasn’t a bad strategy that hurt a lot of people and turned away a lot more…