Sharp: Closing a door [LWN.net]

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 11, 2015 16:41 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Sharp: Closing a door by nevets
Parent article: Sharp: Closing a door

But Sarah was *not* sending in absymal code, so it seems unlikely she was getting too much criticism herself. What you're saying is that if you can't cope with the stress of watching others be publically belittled (and it *is* stressful), sod off, we don't want you no matter how good a developer you are?

I have to say, any company I've ever heard of that had that policy would have been sued into the ground by now by ex-employees, and rightly so.

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Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 12, 2015 15:53 UTC (Mon) by ksandstr (guest, #60862) [Link] (7 responses)

>But Sarah was *not* sending in absymal code, [...]

She was, though. A "simple, trivial" patch, rejected off-hand for being obviously broken, with a comment to the effect of "did you even compile this?".

Look it up. It concerns USB3, of course.

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 12, 2015 22:34 UTC (Mon) by PaXTeam (guest, #24616) [Link] (6 responses)

> Asked for evidence, a concrete reference to the public communication by which the condemners formed their opinion, what do they answer? "Go search for it yourself."

the irony is just too rich.

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 12, 2015 22:41 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (3 responses)

Ha, that is funny. The reference: https://lwn.net/Articles/660365/

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 12, 2015 22:42 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (2 responses)

Funny or not, it's looking to me like it might be about time to close the door on this discussion. I think the important stuff has been said at this point...

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 12, 2015 22:52 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

while I agree that the important stuff has probably been said, has this been open to non-subscribers? (today it would have come out of the escrow so I'm not sure)

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 12, 2015 22:59 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

This wasn't a feature article, so it's been open to the world since it was first posted.

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 18, 2015 11:14 UTC (Sun) by ksandstr (guest, #60862) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, you could've asked.

Sheesh.

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 18, 2015 17:45 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Are you reading what you're writing? Obviously that applies to you too.