Twitter at the speed of parenting
Some points are subtle and take a lot of words to explain well. You can't tl;dr subtlety. Also, code has multiple paths and this thread has only one: statement; statement; statement; etc
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Not because the people doing the screening are mean or arbitrary, but because it indicates a lack of care that will carry over into your work. Similarly, being an asshole indicates a deficit that compromises all of your thought processes, to some degree.
So, I don’t put credence on anything rms or esr or linus say - nor anything their apologists say - unless I also hear it explained well by someone who isn’t an asshole. That’s just a thing for you to know about how it looks when you quote assholes.
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RMS has a great quote about how Conway’s law works, but I don’t use it anymore in my presentations, because I found equally smart comparisons made by better people. The ones I found avoid the “ew, RMS” reaction that many people have, which make them quite simply more convincing.
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Ok, I understand a lot better now. You're totally right. I'm sad, though, because "on the Internet nobody can hear you being subtle" is a great way of expressing that idea. And I feel like saying it unattributed may seem like I'm passing it off as my own.
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That's a good point. Human beings are very associative in their thinking. I should have asterisked it with "this tweet does not endorse everything Linux has ever said or done"?
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It may be preferable to quote another source. "Brevity is the soul of wit," for instance.
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We're discussing effective communication practices and it seems reasonable that Shakespeare is a better source to cite than Torvalds.
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But there are no easy answers. Sensitivity and emotional intelligence aren't things that can be won at by applying rigorous logic.
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