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Is it a job requirement for tech super geeks to have the maturity of a high-school kid?

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• tx 18y ago
  That's called "speaking one's own mind" as opposed to corporate doublespeak devoid of any meaningul sense, so common in corporate meeting rooms. The beauty of not being paid for what you do is the luxury of being able not to bother with bullshit. And yes, security is overrated. All major "security" problems have always been DOS attacks that have NOTHING to do with "breaking" into anything. The biggest problem with computer "security" is the widespread adoption of "anti-virus" softwares. That plague does more harm than viruses themselves.
  • tptacek 18y ago
    First two grafs: dead on. Amen. Last graf, first thr---two sentences: crazy talk. Last graf, last 2 sentences: dead on. Amen.
    • nuclear_eclipse 18y ago
      I count only four sentences in his last paragraph...
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  • sophist 18y ago
    It is possible to speak your mind without being crude and callow, actually.
• mechanical_fish 18y ago
  No more so than for any other job. (Do you think soldiers, chefs, car salespeople, and senators talk especially differently, when they're not in the limelight?) If anything, this little statement has entirely too few four-letter words to be a really believeable engineer rant. Of course, if you want to see someone as immature it always helps to rip a single statement entirely out of its conversational context. I frankly have no idea whether Torvalds is being sensible or stupid, brilliant or childish here. It depends on who is asking what.