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Always surpassed when people focus on Mr. Torvalds' public responses and characterise him as an a**hole. They ignore the stupidity and obvious condescension of the comments he is rebutting as if it were OK to be an a**hole if you haven't created software as significant as Linux or Git. I suspect this is why Mr Torvalds is OK with being an a**hole himself.
'The best mr. Kakurin could've done was just ignore such rudeness.'
I would suggest it would be more appropriate to say 'the best thing Mr. Torvalds could do is ignore such rudeness'.
But sadly in this case, as with most others, the 'bitch slap' was well and truly earned.
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Climate Turnip wrote: the best thing Mr. Torvalds could do is ignore such rudeness I read the original message by mr. Kakurin again, and indeed, it was rude.
So I guess you're right, but either way, because they both took the battle head on, they're now both assholes
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With all the bickering over languages and technology, I wonder when any real programming gets done.
BTW, my car is faster than your car.
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Slacker007 wrote: BTW, my car is faster than your car
And mine is bigger then yours. Wait, are we still talking about cars?
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Quote: I wonder when any real programming gets done. Yes, even I used to wonder the same. Most of them try "Hello world" program and stop there
Ranjan.D
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He does seem like an ass doesn't he? Maybe it's the prestige of being the Linux creator that gives him the freedom to get away with this? But no reason why he couldn't just state his reasons in a cool, calm manner without vituperation.
Kevin
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Language is only a medium of expression, especially a computer language. It is good to start with one language, and become familiar with its features. But after some years, one should transcend language, and focus on the problem to be solved / resolved.
After all, the pretty GUIs which people see can be made to work with any language behind, isn't it?
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Avijnata wrote: Language is only a medium of expression, especially a computer language. I think that the idea that a "computer language" is analogous to a human spoken, and/or written, language is a terribly mis-leading, and superficial, cultural construct (meme). An invidious comparison of something with astounding depth and dimensionality with something relatively shallow, and one-dimensional.
The question of whether language is something that can be "transcended" is also philosophically challenging, suggesting an infinite regress: do we ever have knowledge independent of our encoding of that knowledge ... whether that encoding is glyphs, syllables (morphemes) translated in the mind to patterns of neuronal linkage and activation (phonemes) ... and so forth.
In terms of programming, I've seen brilliant bottom-up self-taught programmers who seemed to almost have "extrasensory" powers, and, I've seen programmers with advanced degrees from places like Stanford who thought in terms of Backus-Knorr diagrams and Design-Patterns who were remarkably un-productive working on real-world products.
From those two extremes I do not infer anything about the average, the mode, or the median
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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#YOLO Linus got #SWAG fo sho!
The average, the mode and the median of our two posts is now readable English
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All hail the Universal Turing Machine!
Any language that attempts to abstract away its pure beauty is a tool of the Devil, and should be expunged from the face of the planet!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I think the best cars are Formula 1!
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I was trying to connect to internet. Didn't get success as there was some problem with network connection. Tried to get help from troubleshooter. It started doing something and suddenly prompted " windows is not able to connect to www.microsoft.com
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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Send 'em an email to complain!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's like the old "Keyboard not found. Press any key to continue " BIOS message.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah, and try finding a keyboard with an any key!
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Sander Rossel wrote: Yeah, and try finding a keyboard with an any key! I found one for you![^]
(From this message[^] a few days ago)
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Semantic keyboard
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My God!
I'm getting déjà vu all over again!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"There seems to be a problem with your internet connection. Look online for help and resources?"
I believe that's a standard too
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I also like the old BIOS message:
"Monitor not found. Please plug in monitor and press any key to continue."
How do I know that is there? I saw it on the monitor!
How did the BIOS makers think that would get to the user? Telepathy?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: How did the BIOS makers think that would get to the user? Telepathy? Telety-py.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The hoax of gravity makes the "global warming" hoax pale by comparison.
If you can't see what the matter is with the idea that gravity "holds" anything, that is absolute proof you are in the state of cultural hypnosis known as "ordinary reality."
Levity is the only thing holding things together.
Once you begin to realize this, you will tread more lightly with more spring in your step.
You will realize that helicopters, airplanes, and birds, do not fly ... because you experience the fact that you, and everybody, and everything else, are flying, and, since everything's flying, you can drop the whole baggage of the concept and pay more attention to your current miraculous altitude.
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Yes, but levity is what makes holes in bread, isn't it?
We wouldn't want it to get too full of itself and think it could start making holes anywhere it feels like it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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