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pretoriusB on Dec 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk

>But there it stops. Once you hit a threshold of "better than pretty much everybody in the world, even those who have dedicated their life to this stuff", you don't really see this sort of elitism anymore.

I'm not so sure. Consider Linus, Rob Pike, and others...

indubitably on Dec 16, 2012 [–]

Linus is definitely not nice.

He'll say so to your face, too. So at least he's honest about not being nice.

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