Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

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[eiverr]

"Nobody really creates perfect code the first time... except me, but there is only one of me" - I simply love this part, history will never forget this golden sentence :D

[hasenj]

I love this talk, I think this is like the 10th time I watch it

[FetrovskyGoogle]

A.k.a. the "I hate CVS" talk.

[bsgrep]

0:36:30 :)

[522viper]

Haha the joke at the beginning. :D

[finnoncom]

@eiverr Linus is the Einstein of Code!

[finnoncom]

@eiverr Linus is th Einstein of Code!

[rdormer]

@charlieSharpsteen I never said anyone has to sugar coat anything. However, this sort of divisive, over the top rhetoric is un-necessary. Just because you disagree with the way something is done, does not give you an excuse to be rude. Judging by the reactions of many in the open source community, I'm far from alone in feeling that way. The software industry already has an image problem - this attitude doesn't help.

[charlieSharpsteen]

@rdormer Oh come off it. Just because you work really hard on something does not mean that everyone else has to sugar-coat any criticism they may have of your work.

And he is being quite tongue-in-cheek--- you failed to show a sense of humor.

[rdormer]

Wow, what an arrogant ass. I don't care what the guy has done, nothing gives you a right to be this much of a tool. Trashing other people's hard work is just uncalled for. It's people who act like this that give us programmers such a negative stereotype. If he was trying to be tounge in cheek, he failed.

[johnlovestohate]

@Varghjarta False confidence doesn't apply to Linus Torvalds. 

[FredricF]

@Varghjarta He is Linus Torvalds, he has earned the right to be full of himself.

His view is from the open source horizon, though, and I don't think all he says is applicable to commercial software projects.