Posted: "A Case Study in Not Being A Jerk in Open Source", wherein I rewrite a Linus Torvalds email to be half as long, still clear and forceful, with none of the insults. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2018/a-case-study-in-not-being-a-jerk-in-open-source …
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There are four comments on this on /r/programming so far. All four of them say that Linus' original email is fine. This is the email where a subtle point about appeal to authority is completely buried by Linus talking about irrelevant things like what goes inside of his ass.
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If you read apologists commenting about this email, they often completely miss Linus' actual point. He's fine with the change; he doesn't like the justification, which uses an appeal to authority. The very people who apologize for the useless bloat miss this because of the bloat!
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These people missed the signal because it was buried in noise. But most of them go on to argue that the noise is boosting the signal; that ranting is good because it drives the point home. But they didn't even detect the signal because they were so focused on defending the noise!pic.twitter.com/Yww7WK3KDh
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I didn't even realize just how OK he was with the change until I looked up the original thread (to find the original commit description) and then realized Linus immediately replied to himself, 9 minutes later, with an "I've merged it".
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