Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jan 2002 02:56:56 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel |
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Timothy Covell wrote: > You know, I used to wonder why more people didn't like/use Linux. Now, > after a month or so of reading this website and meeting so many arrogant > assholes, now I know why.
Hey Tim, you wrote a buggy code example that illustrated the wrong problem, and someone thought you actually meant to indicate that problem. Easy mistakes, but you made the first one.
What you call arrogance is simply folk getting to the heart of a problem, as straightforwardly as feasible. In this case unfortunately the wrong one. I didn't find the other person's words rude at all, but you did. Ah, the joy of being different people.
It seems to work for the folk who stay. If we were all nice and polite, I daresay many of the engineering-minded folk would get bored and find somewhere else to insult each other and discuss interesting stuff.
Robust attitude seems to be a requisite for a certain type of engineering -- it's not pointless: it enables us to ask difficult questions directly instead of being afraid to.
It's a culture thing, and a working method, is all, and is rarely intended offensively.
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