This is the kinder, more empathetic and approachable Linus, right ?
;)
WCSTombs•1h ago
Yes, and I'm not being ironic. The earlier Linus would have called the coder garbage, where here he's only insulting the code. I cannot emphasize how big of an improvement that is.
Bowes-Lyon•1h ago
I strongly dislike the spin of the headline – „Linus told a Google engineer that…” as opposed to „Linus told a developer that…”.
What is the headline implying? That Google engineers are gods? That Google engineers don’t make mistakes?
Also, reading through the code, Linus does have a point. I’m with Linus on this one.
pyman•6m ago
It's the first sentence of the tweet. Palmer Dabbelt is also the Chair of the UNIX-Class Platform Specification. Anyway, the point is to discuss why Linus thinks his code is garbage, not the tweet's title.
ncruces•1h ago
He's not wrong, though, certainly not in the example he gave.
pyman•1m ago
Yeah, but what's really going on here? Palmer is the Chair of the UNIX Class Platform Specification and has apparently been working on a RISC-V spec since 2019.
tuatoru•52m ago
Interesting that this is worthy of comment. The inference I draw from the use of the words "Google engineer" is that Google and/or the tweeter now have a culture of deferring to authority, the job title, not measuring merit.
spacedcowboy•1h ago
;)
WCSTombs•1h ago