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LinuxCon Japan: Making kernel developers less grumpy

LinuxCon Japan: Making kernel developers less grumpy

Posted Jun 22, 2012 22:27 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: LinuxCon Japan: Making kernel developers less grumpy by martinfick
Parent article: LinuxCon Japan: Making kernel developers less grumpy

I obviously did not say anything that simplistic on such a complex topic.
For a start, there is not one single type/scale of pain.

Anyway pain is not really the main issue with mocking (you might have re-ordered one of my sentences when reading and misplaced "painful"). The main issue with mocking and public humiliation is: it degrades not just the persons involved but the whole group. That could explain why it is much less tolerated in Asian cultures which are often less individualistic.


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