> On 28-Dec-12 9:03 AM, MJang wrote: > >http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1414106
( reaction to clueless programmer omitted ... why the hell can't some programmers respect modularity? ) On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 09:40:07AM -0700, Bill Thoen wrote: > Is this typical Linus or is he just spitting mad and uncontrollably flew > off into a rare rage? I'm betting very much the latter. We are not the calm cerebral creatures we pretend to be. We become enraged because of an accumulation of upsets, rarely a single event. The upsets are usually multidomain, stuff coming in from all angles. And when we are enraged, we drop into tunnel vision, hypersensitivity, complete abandonment of moral restraint or thoughts about consequences. It says something about Mr. Torvalds that he is still able to type a coherent sentence in such circumstances. The fact that he is still alive tells us that this is rare, because he would surely be dead or in prison if this was a frequent problem for him. I bet a bunch of other bad things happened to him on the 23rd. Car accident, airport delays, plumbing failure, child tantrums, bad news from a doctor? I was on the east coast that day, what was going on here? I've felt that killing rage once in my life. I was very close to picking up a chair and crushing someone's skull. It took all my discipline to just turn around and walk out the door. I've done that a few times since, when I got even close to that level of anger. Otherwise, I would be in prison instead of writing this. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
