From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.5.68] Scalability issues
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 16:36:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB81CBC.1000801@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.3.96.1030506142904.9452D-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com
Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
> It's a shame that some people seem to think that lots of hard work
> entitles them to be rude and condescending, while really important
> contributors like Alan Cox, Ingo and akpm can be polite and helpful, even
> when they are correcting someone or disagreeing on an approach to a
> problem.
>
I read an article a while back by Paul Graham (LISP guru, SPAM filterer,
etc.) about Junior High School social dynamics. The people at the top
are confident, while the people in the middle want to climb the
popularity ladder and do so by pushing others down.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-04 17:39 [2.5.68] Scalability issues Felix von Leitner
2003-05-04 18:16 ` Michael Buesch
2003-05-04 19:44 ` Felix von Leitner
2003-05-04 20:12 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-05 7:51 ` Felix von Leitner
2003-05-05 9:51 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-05 14:05 ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-06 18:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-05-06 20:36 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2003-05-07 0:22 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-04 20:34 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-05-06 11:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-06 11:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
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