Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:30:13 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ... | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:17:13 -0800
Let me introduce you to this neat invention called a telephone. It's the black thing next to your desk, it rings, has buttons. If you push the right buttons, well, it's magic...
I'm not calling Holland every time I want to poke Jens about something in a patch we're working on :-)
I hate telephones for technical stuff, because people can call the fucking thing when I am not behind my computer or even worse when I AM behind my computer and I want to concentrate on the code on my screen without being disturbed. With IRC it is MY CHOICE to get involved in the discussion, I can choose to respond or not respond to someone, I can choose to be available or not available at any given time. It's just a real-time version of email. And the "passive, I can ignore you" part is what I like about it.
Telephones frankly suck for discussing technical topics. I can't cut and paste pieces of code from my other editor buffer to show you over the phone, as another example as to why.
A lot of people like to use telephones specifically because it does not give the other party the option of ignoring you once they pick up the phone. I value the ability to make the choice to ignore people because a lot of ideas I don't give a crap about come under my nose.
In fact that may be one of the best parts about Linux development compared to doing stuff at a company, one isn't required to listen to someone's idea or to even read it. If today I don't give a crap about Joe's filesystem idea, hey guess what I'm not going to read any of his emails about the thing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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