<story><title>Farewell from Rusty Russell</title><url>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed875ea1fcc6c34ea232610c3041d0978e327bbe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antirez</author><text>I loved the work Rusty performed so much! He started to work actively at Linux firewalling about at the same time as I became a Linux user and sysadmin, like more than 20 years ago, and I used what he made regularly and always found his work to have a sane UI to the admin: simple to use yet quite powerful stuff. In general kernel hackers are really a bunch of unicorns that are very focused on the code they are writing and the problems to solve, and I&amp;#x27;ve the feeling that while in the 90s they were deeply recognized for their work, now instead in some way their work is a bit in the shadow... with much hype going into places where it&amp;#x27;s not deserved. But apparently most of them want just to code at low level, don&amp;#x27;t be annoyed, and get a salary. The essence of the old times programmer basically.&lt;p&gt;Impressed with:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;disagreed with my approach so much and so continuously that I developed a dread of reading my mail every morning: eventually I wrote a filter to send their mail to a separate mbox&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m very sorry to read this. In the early days of Redis this happened to me as well, there were a group of people continuously attacking me and I was horrified by the idea of reading their Twitter replies at some point. However instead of filtering them, I found (without conscious efforts, it just happened) a different solution, I became more and more sentimentally disconnected from the chats focusing solely on the actual arguments, filtering most of the tone and human-level parts. This makes me a sadder person, not able to joy or be sad for things I read on social networks for the most part, however in the pro side there is that I can read the harsh criticisms and find some value, sometimes, without being affected. Moreover, as a secondary adjustment, I no longer reply after a given point if I may start to sound attacking towards another person. This does not mean to accept everything, but just say after N replies: &amp;quot;we disagree but you are cool, I&amp;#x27;ll do what I think, have a nice day&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I still believe that we can stay in the tech world, not accepting what other people say if we disagree from a technical standpoint, without being assholes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Farewell from Rusty Russell</title><url>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed875ea1fcc6c34ea232610c3041d0978e327bbe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnflan</author><text>Nice closing&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  To my fellow maintainers: stay harsh on code and
  don&amp;#x27;t be afraid to say &amp;quot;No&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Why?&amp;quot;; there really
  are more bad ideas than good ones, and complexity
  is such a bright candle for us hacker-moths.  But
  be gentle, kind and forgiving of your peers:
  respect from people you respect is really the only 
  reward that sticks[9].&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>