<story><title>Linus Torvalds on aliasing</title><url>http://www.yodaiken.com/2018/06/07/torvalds-on-aliasing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ralfn</author><text>When it comes to being oversensitive needy little things there is no true Scottsman.&lt;p&gt;As a northern European I find it not only comfortable that Linus runs Linux, but I would be less comfortable if it was another American smile in face  pretend to be your friend but be shady as fuck attitude that you guys seem to confuse for &amp;#x27;professionalism&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;So let&amp;#x27;s chalk this to cultural differences. We wouldn&amp;#x27;t hire someone like you  and you wouldn&amp;#x27;t hire someone like him.</text></item><item><author>mosselman</author><text>I would go out of my way to avoid people who communicate like this with me. People put time and energy in making software better, at least in their own eyes, for others and then they get textually abused like this by someone who has his fame to protect himself with.&lt;p&gt;He also does no service to his own arguments by peppering them with childish swearing because things like &amp;quot;So standards are not some kind of holy book that has to be revered. Standards too need to be questioned.&amp;quot; can&amp;#x27;t be said enough to some people in the industry.&lt;p&gt;If his reply were written with more tact and less swearing it would be a lot more powerful. We as an industry should demand this of each other, but also of our &amp;#x27;celebrity&amp;#x27; colleagues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mosselman</author><text>What nonsense. I am Dutch and live in the Netherlands, we are very direct and take little to no heed to hierarchy.&lt;p&gt;I never said that Linus should be fake friendly. I am saying that swearing does damage to moral and the power of his arguments.&lt;p&gt;Also, Steve Jobs was a notorious asshole and he is revered in the US despite this. There are countless other examples of CEOs and managers who are more than unfriendly in the US who are looked at as examples of how one should behave to be  &amp;#x27;professional&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;Your being &amp;#x27;northern European&amp;#x27; has nothing to do with any of what we are talking about. Maybe you can chalk your reaction to your apparent false sense of superiority over friendliness and, it seems, Americans.</text></comment>
<story><title>Linus Torvalds on aliasing</title><url>http://www.yodaiken.com/2018/06/07/torvalds-on-aliasing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ralfn</author><text>When it comes to being oversensitive needy little things there is no true Scottsman.&lt;p&gt;As a northern European I find it not only comfortable that Linus runs Linux, but I would be less comfortable if it was another American smile in face  pretend to be your friend but be shady as fuck attitude that you guys seem to confuse for &amp;#x27;professionalism&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;So let&amp;#x27;s chalk this to cultural differences. We wouldn&amp;#x27;t hire someone like you  and you wouldn&amp;#x27;t hire someone like him.</text></item><item><author>mosselman</author><text>I would go out of my way to avoid people who communicate like this with me. People put time and energy in making software better, at least in their own eyes, for others and then they get textually abused like this by someone who has his fame to protect himself with.&lt;p&gt;He also does no service to his own arguments by peppering them with childish swearing because things like &amp;quot;So standards are not some kind of holy book that has to be revered. Standards too need to be questioned.&amp;quot; can&amp;#x27;t be said enough to some people in the industry.&lt;p&gt;If his reply were written with more tact and less swearing it would be a lot more powerful. We as an industry should demand this of each other, but also of our &amp;#x27;celebrity&amp;#x27; colleagues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristianc</author><text>&amp;gt; As a northern European I find it not only comfortable that Linus runs Linux, but I would be less comfortable if it was another American smile in face pretend to be your friend but be shady as fuck attitude that you guys seem to confuse for &amp;#x27;professionalism&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;This is a false dichotomy.&lt;p&gt;Most of what Linus says would run foul of HN&amp;#x27;s guidelines - which I&amp;#x27;ll paraphrase here as &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t call someone an asshole before making your real point&amp;quot;, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that everyone on HN is a &amp;#x27;smile in face pretend to be your friend but be shady as fuck&amp;#x27;.</text></comment>