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This is very uncharacteristic of the direction Linus was heading. Damn, Steven must have seriously fucked up. >You copied that function without understanding w
by thrillgore 3y ago
This is very uncharacteristic of the direction Linus was heading. Damn, Steven must have seriously fucked up.
>You copied that function without understanding why it does what it does, and as a result your code IS GARBAGE. AGAIN.
I generally believe in positivity but if I saw this as his direct report I'd move him to another project ASAP to get scrutiny on his code quality.
- technofiend 3y ago>I generally believe in positivity but if I saw this as his direct report I'd move him to another project ASAP to get scrutiny on his code quality. I'm not sure I'd start there, but I'd definitely want to understand what problem the person was trying so solve. Might be legit, might be OKR-driven development.
- somerandomqaguy 3y agoThe discussion seems to calm down a little afterwards if you follow the thread. Linus is actually making suggestions for Steven to try in his test setup: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.3/04995.html https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.3/04995.html
- ametrau 3y agoDo you also think in manager-speak? It’s our downtime, on a news discussion site, why are you still talking in this obnoxious way?
- thrillgore 3y agoThanks for the feedback.
- Boatfaceing 3y ago[dead]