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He has taken several months-long breaks and things have been fine. There are other trustworthy devs (like Greg Kroah-Hartman) who he leaves in charge who do just fine at holding the line in his absence. They might not publicly shame bad pull requests as elegantly as Torvolds, but the kernel will probably be fine.

That my worry too.

Which is a fairly shocking thing to say really. I thought promised to be less of a dick a while ago. Guess he couldn't keep it up.

A header file in the C family of programming languages contains the declarations for each function that gets defined in the accompanying code file. Ideally, the header file should only contain import statements, some basic definitions, and function declarations. It should not contain any actual executable code.

A header file basically exists to tell the compiler "hey, these functions exist in this file, don't freak out if it gets called before you see its definition." Without the header file, you'd need to write the declarations at the beginning of the code file (in the header, hence the name).

It's possible to acknowledge Torvalds as both a technical leader and overall smart guy, as well as acknowledging his poor treatment of people and generally being an asshole. A person can be both of those things.

No, assholes need to stop treating people like shit. Don’t put this on the rest of us

This you?

Edit: and the neckbeards who spring to his defense

We need to treat people with respect

E: Downvotes? You fucking asshole neckbeards!

haha

And yes, people still need to get a thicker skin.

If you actually read his posts you'd see that most rants come when people fuck up, then brag about it or complain about Linus not getting their garbage and then doubling down in it.

Simply putting these things on Linus being a dick is unfair at best.

You also left out the little detail nowhere thanks to him we now have an open source Linux kernel that is used in more places.... Not going to make a your mom joke.

I'm sure Linus is not the easiest guy to please but I've never seen him go off against some dude who didn't do anything wrong, who didn't say anything back, who wasn't snarky themselves, etc. yeah, Linus is the benevolent dictator for Linux and so far I see him as a hugely positive force and I hope he continues to be for a long time to come.

After him, however, Linux will need democracy to survive, I think.

I'm a long time Linux user, and I wholeheartedly agree with you. Linus is a dick. He insults people all the time, and people have normalized it. He's a fucking genius, but not a nice person. What's wrong with just saying "hey, your code has so and so issues. Please fix and resubmit"???

It is important to be able to call people out on their incompetence. Now more than ever. Bad people often hide behind incompetence in order to avoid blame for their actions, and it works.

Bro was late and did poor work and that's all Linus said. He didn't insult the guy, he just wasn't polite. Linus is plenty nice to people not actively making his job harder while he's on vacation. It's understandable to be short with someone under those circumstances.

I reckon it would be beneficial to everyone involved if someone else just handled public relations for Linus. Just add a filter.

the man who convinced generations of nerds that it’s okay to treat others like shit as long as you’re “right”.

Engineer-types definitely knew that way before Linus.

Thing is, either you're a straight-up asshole like Linus or you're a passive-aggressive asshole like every project lead who believes in their strong Code of Conduct. Or your product is a failure.

Not defending him, but him as an entire person is why we have Linux

If he was different we probably wouldn't have it

question: do you believe it's as bad now as it has been historically? because the guy went to anger management therapy for like a year after getting called out last time, and i got the impression that things improved after that.