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Proposal for next month

Posted Oct 18, 2012 23:02 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Proposal for next month by rusty
Parent article: Quotes of the week

OK, my take (in the original order):

McKinney: show-off.
Rusty: interesting thought, but lacks quote value.
Ts'o: obvious, beaten to death already by Val Aurora, tl;dr.
Dickins: perhaps funny to hard-core kernel devs?
Mueller: tl;dr.
Greg K-H: tl;dr.

I know that the wave of tl;dr points to the CADT model, but I think that a good quote of the week should be really short and have a quick point. Pass the twitter test, or the soundbite test. Sometimes one longish paragraph can be OK, but three?!?

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Proposal for next month

Posted Oct 19, 2012 19:42 UTC (Fri) by PaulMcKenney (subscriber, #9624) [Link]

For your #1, I would have instead said "grasping at straws to rationalize my earlier posting of a totally brain-dead patch", but if that is considered to be showing off, so be it. ;-)

Proposal for next month

Posted Oct 20, 2012 9:13 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

OK, then I go with Rusty's explanation :)

Proposal for next month

Posted Oct 20, 2012 21:39 UTC (Sat) by PaulMcKenney (subscriber, #9624) [Link]

Works for me! ;-)

Proposal for next month

Posted Oct 23, 2012 1:49 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

There are not many circles where mentioning that you're in a C++ standards meeting is considered bragging. Glad LWN is one of them. :)