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There aren't enough swear-words in the English language, so now I'll have to call you perkeleen vittupää just to express my disgust and frustration with this crap.
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A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.
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Obsessing about things is important, and things really do matter, but if you can't let go of them, you'll end up crazy.
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Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
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Because if you want me to "act professional", I can tell you that I'm not interested. I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm *also* not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their normal urges in unnatural ways.
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It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.
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Controlling a laser with Linux is crazy, but everyone in this room is crazy in his own way. So if you want to use Linux to control an industrial welding laser, I have no problem with your using PREEMPT_RT.
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I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.
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But this is definitely another of those "This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Al-biwan Ke-Viro, you're my only hope" issues. Al? Please don't make me wear that golden bikini.
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The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances. In other words, it's an Oracleism.
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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right [...].
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See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)
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People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization... that's what you should do.
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Even if the Hurd didn't depend on Linux code (and as far as I know, it does, but since I think they have their design heads firmly up their asses anyway with that whole microkernel thing, I've never felt it was worth my time even looking at their code), I don't believe a religiously motivated development community can ever generate as good code except by pure chance.
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Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.
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Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
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Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.
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If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.
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Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.
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I like colorized diffs, but let's face it, those particular color choices will make most people decide to pick out their eyes with a fondue fork. And that's not good. Digging in your eye-sockets with a fondue fork is strictly considered to be bad for your health, and seven out of nine optometrists are dead set against the practice. So in order to avoid a lot of blind git users, please apply this patch.
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Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
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You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.
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My personal opinion of Mach is not very high. Frankly, it's a piece of crap. It contains all the design mistakes you can make, and even managed to make up a few of its own.
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Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not "evil" or "immoral," it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.
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Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).
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December 28, 1969
(age 54)
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer, who is the creator of the Linux kernel and for a long time, principal developer; that became the kernel for operating systems, such as GNU and years later Android and Chrome OS.
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