Why do people act like a project would be forced to take in substandard code just because the maintainers aren't allowed to be assholes? Constructive criticism and mentoring can be used just as well in place of being a dickish aspie.
The git merge-bot I use only rejects a pull request if a comment message fails the profanity filter. Otherwise it's auto-merged right into master.
Also note previously to this there was the attitude "Look we should be dicks because Linus is and he must be right because the kernel is excellent! Linus Linus Linus". Now it's morphed into "We should be dicks and Linus is wrong".
That's an entirely different question than what it does to the health and evolution of the code
No it's not, because code is written by actual hu-mons.
Now here's the funny thing. Humans are pretty adaptable. No one was born to write kernel code.Turns out that people who are good kernel coders are good other-thing coders as well. And those people can cheerily say "sod this" ("bugger this" if they're British) and go and get another job coding interesting things in an environment where they don't have to put up with any bullshit.
Some middle level of respect is generally granted, because most people don't treat strangers with no respect (well you might, I've no idea). Respect can go up or down from there.
Many people in these areas where meritocracy matters
It's not a metiroctacy. It's been edging towards an assholeocracy with a minimum bar on merit. Both Matthew Garrett and Sarah Sharp had the merit they conributed large, valuable things to the kernel like (IIRC) powersaving and USB3.
Both left, not becuase they weren't good enough but because they got fed up of the toxic bullshit and both realised that they could have gainful, fun employment working on other things while being treated with respect.
they're trying to become the gatekeepers of what's acceptable.
Someone's always a gatekeeper. In your world, instead of saying you have to be one of the best to work here, you are instead saying you have to be this much of an asshole to work here.
If you have to use the internet to do research, then you're screwed because they it doesn't have all the stuff you need, especially at college level or higher.
At college level the internet usually has access to the widest variety of scientific papers compared to any other level.
No, this is me getting the idea of feminism from most feminists I have met, which were, btw, much more privileged than me.
Sounds like you haven't been listening very hard then. "Male privilige" (a somewhat silly word, but there you go) doesn't mean that every man is more priviliged than every woman. Not does it mean that feminists can't come from priviliged backgounds.
You culd ask your feminist friends about the privilige concept and what it means if you like.
Did you ever notice this btw? How people in the populist right are always poorer than those of the populist left?
Don't know which country you live in. In the UK and the US, there are populists on both sides, but poorer people tend to vote left in the UK and Democrat in the US.
and allows women to say "well, I'm just not in lurrrvv with you anymore, so bye
There's plenty indefensible in the divorce system, but that isn't one of the bit. No one should ever be obliged to stay with someone they don't want to. Men just as much as women can in sane places (not the UK right now!) leave at any time for no reason.
As for alimony and whatnot, yes if one partner went to work and the other stopped a career to raise the family, keep house etc then yes the labour was split so the proceeds of it should be too.
All your wife has to do in the UK, 2018 to get rid of you is pay someone to photoshop you Nazi LARPing and posting a bunch of racist stuff on your FB account. Then once the police nab them another "bigot" she can probably divorce you for cause. So don't get too cocky with us Americans, mate.
This sounds entirely like something you simply made up because... actually I have no idea why you made it up. If you're going to attack divorce laws in the UK why not do it for one of the myriad good reasons?
I guess every generation have to find their own sob story about why they're angsty teens, but honestly... what the fuck is so wrong with society today?
Same as it is every day. It's inhabited by a monkey[*] evolved primarily to live on the African planes. Turns out that monkey is only so-so at living in a high tech area where gorging on everything in sight is not a good survival strategy.
in fact the only thing I can think of is that we're so independent and socially liberal that nobody wants partner with uninteresting people because of economic dependence or social pressure or they got pregnant. Today she gets an abortion, there's no shotgun wedding.
You think the fact that women (and men, though you seem to single out womenhere) aren't forcibly married to someone they don't want to marry is what is wrong with us? I'd say that's one of the things that's very mugh right about us.
What? Has there ever been a point in history where the male role has been less macho?
For the current values of macho, yes. In the past, men had very deep, emotional and expressively so relationships with each other. With the rise of "uurrr no homo" this has largely vanished. This means that men are often without emptional support that they did have in previous eras. Seriously, go ready some man-to-man letters from some of the golden ages of macho men being manly. They can be touchingly deeply emptional in a way which is frankly hard to picture now.
In fact, many men struggle to find the balance between still being a gentleman and not behaving in a way a modern woman finds condescending.
With friends like you, men don't need enemies.
And how to functionally date when it's not like I'll wine and dine you and you'll sleep with me.
See my previous statement 10fold. That forumula like so many things we appear to consider "historical" was from the 1950s.
[*] There's a good argument that apes are a type of monkey as monkeys (new world) and apes are closer then monkeys (old world).
But why do I need a picture of myself? How I look has no bearing on my ability to do my job, since I'm not a model.
But it does have a bearing on who you are. I mean people literally recognise each other with their faces. Yes, if you live as a hermit and never network AFK then yes, you photo won't be of any use.
If tech companies cared about families, they would locate more jobs outside Silicon Valley.
Probably not. I'm not a SV resident, but I'm a londoner for possibly many of the same reasons. It's much easier to attract people for jobs when there are lots of alternatives available, the person's spouse can easily get or keep their job and they don't have to move. I'm in London because my spouse has a career here. We kind of settled on that because we knew it would be easier for us to both get good jobs than just about anywhere else.
Funny because I just posted a bunch of links to it.
Thing is I don't really care whay your idea of the "leftist agenda" is. It's clearly blatantly stupid so precise the details of the stpidity are unimportant.
This country does not have open borders, has universal health care
WTF? S is the leftist agenda both together or not? Make up your mind.
People come in for the express purpose of gaining (or faking) residency, promptly getting expensive medical treatment, and leaving without paying anything into the system.
We have the Daily Fail complaining about that here too. Turns out it's actually negligible.
First say something stupid. Can't defend it, so attack the poster. That's just trying t oshut down speech. Hey isn't that what SJWs do? You're such an SJW.
I am not remotely in favor of social justice and certainly do not make war on its enemies.
You say that but you say all sorts of SJWy things. I think you are an SJW.
. Did you hear the latest? An SJW called for radical feminists to be put into gulags and reeducated.
OMG you searched the internet and managed to find someone who said something stupid! Congratulations that will allow you to generalise to vast numbers of people very easily.
But really do you want to get into this game? We can play duelling with stpid things people say, whle pretending they're the opinions of the other if you like.
I believe in free speech. SJWs believe speech is violence and it is appropriate to respond with violence.
So you don't like their speech. You're clearly an SJW.
Our visits are always legitimate, even if they turn up nothing, it's better to be safe than sorry.
Unfortunately not. The trouble is that visits can and do turn up false positives. Those false positives inevitably end up with treatment which does come with risks.
We're starting to slowly wake up to this with poulation scale screening for certain diseases. They've always been tilted in favour of low false negatives because hey, who wants to miss cancer? The trouble is the overall outcomes are not actually the best like that.
God no. What we have is a duplictius, anti-semitic arsehole.
Anti semitic: no he's never said anything anti semitic. However the party under him, with him at the helm takes a strong stance against well founded accusations of antisemitism and a very gentle stance towards the anti-semites. At some point if you keep standing in the way you're part of the problem. He's also cut from the same cloth as David Cameron, underneath. Cameron was the kind of arsehole prepared to put party before country which is why he held the referendum. Corbyn knew then and knows now that a lot of people, and the poorest especially (and many man of his voters) will be fucked by Brexit. He eventually camd down in favour but refused to share the remain platform with the Tories becase he was more concerned with putting party before country and that old party rivalry was just to important.
He's also a massive hypocrite. He was one of the most rebellious backbenchers when he had little power. Now he has power, he's really keen on using the whip and there are growing talks of delselection. Oh and the whole "we need a higher tax bracket but it should start just above what I'm earning".
Ha also. His little usual tour in front of his cheering crowds at Glastonbury. FFS. Yes he was all like rah rah policies rah to waves of cheers. Except I note that his single biggest policy: "we will follow the results of the referendum ant take Britain out of the EU" got no mention at all. Because it wasn't a politics tent it was a bloody Trump style rally.
Labour party, it's not in power, he probably won't win, even if he does win there will be endless shitheads causing problems for him and all the media will rail against him as it already has. He nearly won the last election despite the media putting in the boot but too many people let TV and newspapers do their thinking for them.
Yeah I remember the media campaign against Corbyn at the beginning. It was pretty disgusting. Lots of blatat misqoting and quoting out of conext, borderline lies etc. I was actually pretty pro corbyn for a while. I do actually like quite a lot of his policies, some of them a great deal. But I've come ot really dislike the guy.
He also seems to be somewhat stuck in the past with a vision of british industry which is barely more than teams of men in cloth caps looking serious and bashing rivets. We do have industry. That isn't it. Pretending otherwise isn't going to make it come back.
Congratulations, this is the stupidest post I've read on the internet today. It's a high par to pass but you passed it.
Your argument is: GP wants single payer healthcare. Some stupid straw man you've invented says that some people who want single payer also want open borders. OMFG GP SI TEH MORAN single healthcare means open borders.
Your post has everything:
* reactionary bigotry about anyone who disagrees on any aspect of politics * aggresive stupidity * entire armies of straw men * ignoring that places other than America exist * flagrant disregard for reality * angrily making shit up
Unless the left can learn to stop denigrating people
A sibling of your post basically eqates the left to guards at the soviet gulags. Why on earth do you think this is unique to the left? I guess only the most special of snowflakes can't stand criticism...
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Why do people act like a project would be forced to take in substandard code just because the maintainers aren't allowed to be assholes? Constructive criticism and mentoring can be used just as well in place of being a dickish aspie.
The git merge-bot I use only rejects a pull request if a comment message fails the profanity filter. Otherwise it's auto-merged right into master.
Also note previously to this there was the attitude "Look we should be dicks because Linus is and he must be right because the kernel is excellent! Linus Linus Linus". Now it's morphed into "We should be dicks and Linus is wrong".
That's an entirely different question than what it does to the health and evolution of the code
No it's not, because code is written by actual hu-mons.
Now here's the funny thing. Humans are pretty adaptable. No one was born to write kernel code.Turns out that people who are good kernel coders are good other-thing coders as well. And those people can cheerily say "sod this" ("bugger this" if they're British) and go and get another job coding interesting things in an environment where they don't have to put up with any bullshit.
And this has happened.
Go ahead and be nice to everyone.
Now that sounds like a plan.
Don't argue
Or, you know, argue without being a wanker.
Respect is earned, not granted.
Except that is not true in practice.
Some middle level of respect is generally granted, because most people don't treat strangers with no respect (well you might, I've no idea). Respect can go up or down from there.
Many people in these areas where meritocracy matters
It's not a metiroctacy. It's been edging towards an assholeocracy with a minimum bar on merit. Both Matthew Garrett and Sarah Sharp had the merit they conributed large, valuable things to the kernel like (IIRC) powersaving and USB3.
Both left, not becuase they weren't good enough but because they got fed up of the toxic bullshit and both realised that they could have gainful, fun employment working on other things while being treated with respect.
they're trying to become the gatekeepers of what's acceptable.
Someone's always a gatekeeper. In your world, instead of saying you have to be one of the best to work here, you are instead saying you have to be this much of an asshole to work here.
If you have to use the internet to do research, then you're screwed because they it doesn't have all the stuff you need, especially at college level or higher.
At college level the internet usually has access to the widest variety of scientific papers compared to any other level.
No, this is me getting the idea of feminism from most feminists I have met, which were, btw, much more privileged than me.
Sounds like you haven't been listening very hard then. "Male privilige" (a somewhat silly word, but there you go) doesn't mean that every man is more priviliged than every woman. Not does it mean that feminists can't come from priviliged backgounds.
You culd ask your feminist friends about the privilige concept and what it means if you like.
Did you ever notice this btw? How people in the populist right are always poorer than those of the populist left?
Don't know which country you live in. In the UK and the US, there are populists on both sides, but poorer people tend to vote left in the UK and Democrat in the US.
I'm still something of a connoisseur of good manuals.
Well, manuals are kinda like sex. When they're good, they're REALLY good. And when they're bad, they're better than nothing.
[not my joke. was originally about documentation I think. Don't know the attribution]
and allows women to say "well, I'm just not in lurrrvv with you anymore, so bye
There's plenty indefensible in the divorce system, but that isn't one of the bit. No one should ever be obliged to stay with someone they don't want to. Men just as much as women can in sane places (not the UK right now!) leave at any time for no reason.
As for alimony and whatnot, yes if one partner went to work and the other stopped a career to raise the family, keep house etc then yes the labour was split so the proceeds of it should be too.
All your wife has to do in the UK, 2018 to get rid of you is pay someone to photoshop you Nazi LARPing and posting a bunch of racist stuff on your FB account. Then once the police nab them another "bigot" she can probably divorce you for cause. So don't get too cocky with us Americans, mate.
This sounds entirely like something you simply made up because... actually I have no idea why you made it up. If you're going to attack divorce laws in the UK why not do it for one of the myriad good reasons?
Those who forget the past are condemned to bitch about the present.
Humans are condemned to bitch about the present. That's how humans work.
feminism still deny a man from crying,
No it doesn't. This is you getting your idea of what feminism is from Reddit or Gab.
While I personally think that the 70s were better
If you were a well to do straight white dude, then maybe?
I guess every generation have to find their own sob story about why they're angsty teens, but honestly... what the fuck is so wrong with society today?
Same as it is every day. It's inhabited by a monkey[*] evolved primarily to live on the African planes. Turns out that monkey is only so-so at living in a high tech area where gorging on everything in sight is not a good survival strategy.
in fact the only thing I can think of is that we're so independent and socially liberal that nobody wants partner with uninteresting people because of economic dependence or social pressure or they got pregnant. Today she gets an abortion, there's no shotgun wedding.
You think the fact that women (and men, though you seem to single out womenhere) aren't forcibly married to someone they don't want to marry is what is wrong with us? I'd say that's one of the things that's very mugh right about us.
What? Has there ever been a point in history where the male role has been less macho?
For the current values of macho, yes. In the past, men had very deep, emotional and expressively so relationships with each other. With the rise of "uurrr no homo" this has largely vanished. This means that men are often without emptional support that they did have in previous eras. Seriously, go ready some man-to-man letters from some of the golden ages of macho men being manly. They can be touchingly deeply emptional in a way which is frankly hard to picture now.
In fact, many men struggle to find the balance between still being a gentleman and not behaving in a way a modern woman finds condescending.
With friends like you, men don't need enemies.
And how to functionally date when it's not like I'll wine and dine you and you'll sleep with me.
See my previous statement 10fold. That forumula like so many things we appear to consider "historical" was from the 1950s.
[*] There's a good argument that apes are a type of monkey as monkeys (new world) and apes are closer then monkeys (old world).
But why do I need a picture of myself? How I look has no bearing on my ability to do my job, since I'm not a model.
But it does have a bearing on who you are. I mean people literally recognise each other with their faces. Yes, if you live as a hermit and never network AFK then yes, you photo won't be of any use.
If tech companies cared about families, they would locate more jobs outside Silicon Valley.
Probably not. I'm not a SV resident, but I'm a londoner for possibly many of the same reasons. It's much easier to attract people for jobs when there are lots of alternatives available, the person's spouse can easily get or keep their job and they don't have to move. I'm in London because my spouse has a career here. We kind of settled on that because we knew it would be easier for us to both get good jobs than just about anywhere else.
I'm guessing SV is pretty similar in that regard.
At least I post sources and stay on topic.
Wow you have no shame!
Funny because I just posted a bunch of links to it.
Thing is I don't really care whay your idea of the "leftist agenda" is. It's clearly blatantly stupid so precise the details of the stpidity are unimportant.
This country does not have open borders, has universal health care
WTF? S is the leftist agenda both together or not? Make up your mind.
People come in for the express purpose of gaining (or faking) residency, promptly getting expensive medical treatment, and leaving without paying anything into the system.
We have the Daily Fail complaining about that here too. Turns out it's actually negligible.
First say something stupid. Can't defend it, so attack the poster. That's just trying t oshut down speech. Hey isn't that what SJWs do? You're such an SJW.
I am not remotely in favor of social justice and certainly do not make war on its enemies.
You say that but you say all sorts of SJWy things. I think you are an SJW.
. Did you hear the latest? An SJW called for radical feminists to be put into gulags and reeducated.
OMG you searched the internet and managed to find someone who said something stupid! Congratulations that will allow you to generalise to vast numbers of people very easily.
But really do you want to get into this game? We can play duelling with stpid things people say, whle pretending they're the opinions of the other if you like.
I believe in free speech. SJWs believe speech is violence and it is appropriate to respond with violence.
So you don't like their speech. You're clearly an SJW.
I have no idea what passes for the "leftist agenda" in your head.
What I do know is that plenty of countries have single payer healthcare and don't have open borders.
Our visits are always legitimate, even if they turn up nothing, it's better to be safe than sorry.
Unfortunately not. The trouble is that visits can and do turn up false positives. Those false positives inevitably end up with treatment which does come with risks.
We're starting to slowly wake up to this with poulation scale screening for certain diseases. They've always been tilted in favour of low false negatives because hey, who wants to miss cancer? The trouble is the overall outcomes are not actually the best like that.
God no. What we have is a duplictius, anti-semitic arsehole.
Anti semitic: no he's never said anything anti semitic. However the party under him, with him at the helm takes a strong stance against well founded accusations of antisemitism and a very gentle stance towards the anti-semites. At some point if you keep standing in the way you're part of the problem.
He's also cut from the same cloth as David Cameron, underneath. Cameron was the kind of arsehole prepared to put party before country which is why he held the referendum. Corbyn knew then and knows now that a lot of people, and the poorest especially (and many man of his voters) will be fucked by Brexit. He eventually camd down in favour but refused to share the remain platform with the Tories becase he was more concerned with putting party before country and that old party rivalry was just to important.
He's also a massive hypocrite. He was one of the most rebellious backbenchers when he had little power. Now he has power, he's really keen on using the whip and there are growing talks of delselection. Oh and the whole "we need a higher tax bracket but it should start just above what I'm earning".
Ha also. His little usual tour in front of his cheering crowds at Glastonbury. FFS. Yes he was all like rah rah policies rah to waves of cheers. Except I note that his single biggest policy: "we will follow the results of the referendum ant take Britain out of the EU" got no mention at all. Because it wasn't a politics tent it was a bloody Trump style rally.
Labour party, it's not in power, he probably won't win, even if he does win there will be endless shitheads causing problems for him and all the media will rail against him as it already has. He nearly won the last election despite the media putting in the boot but too many people let TV and newspapers do their thinking for them.
Yeah I remember the media campaign against Corbyn at the beginning. It was pretty disgusting. Lots of blatat misqoting and quoting out of conext, borderline lies etc. I was actually pretty pro corbyn for a while. I do actually like quite a lot of his policies, some of them a great deal. But I've come ot really dislike the guy.
He also seems to be somewhat stuck in the past with a vision of british industry which is barely more than teams of men in cloth caps looking serious and bashing rivets. We do have industry. That isn't it. Pretending otherwise isn't going to make it come back.
Congratulations, this is the stupidest post I've read on the internet today. It's a high par to pass but you passed it.
Your argument is: GP wants single payer healthcare. Some stupid straw man you've invented says that some people who want single payer also want open borders. OMFG GP SI TEH MORAN single healthcare means open borders.
Your post has everything:
* reactionary bigotry about anyone who disagrees on any aspect of politics
* aggresive stupidity
* entire armies of straw men
* ignoring that places other than America exist
* flagrant disregard for reality
* angrily making shit up
Wow you got the joke! Well done! Go you!
Unless the left can learn to stop denigrating people
A sibling of your post basically eqates the left to guards at the soviet gulags. Why on earth do you think this is unique to the left? I guess only the most special of snowflakes can't stand criticism...