If you send too few people out then production won't be high enough in the beginning. You need to send a fair few billion out to at least the first few star systems so that the population can grow, then once the colony is establish, you need to ship people back to maintain production levels on the home world. This is basic stuff people.
As noted, it wasn't Linus that started the blow-up. It got to this point because Sievers was ignoring more professional, less blunt instructions about it.
Just be cause it crossed the line doesn't excuse Linus' behavior. If there is a history of incidents like this then Linus had ample opportunity to take this guy aside and deliver an ultimatum of "This is what happens if you do that again", and then have the balls to quietly act on what he had stated the next time Sievers tried to pull any crap. Instead Linus chose to ignore the history and let things get to the point of blowing up and telling the guy he is a fucking idiot in a public forum. Read any decent management book and they'll tell you that that is not the way to act. Such management styles are immature and ultimately unproductive, and any decent manager can chew you another one without resorting to displays of anger.
Have you missed Linus' on-going history of verbal abuse? Did you miss the part in this story where Linus admits that he has an ongoing issue with Kay, but only chooses to deal with it by blowing up and throwing a mini tantrum when something breaks?
If it wasn't Linus, would you take that sort of crap from $Generic_Manager? And if not, why is allowed to act like that?
That is all you have? Pathetic.
In other words you obvious trolling is obvious
At best you are stupid. At worst (and that I expect), you are a paid shill of the US intelligence community. What you claim is totally disconnected from reality and a nice example of disinformation tactics.
Oh please mr smart man
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Linus is providing that which is severely lacking in open source projects. Discipline.
Why are you confusing Anger with Discipline? Discipline is getting people all on the same page so that they don't do stupid shit in the first place. What Linus did was get angry - not create or engender discipline. However he did discipline the contributor by providing punishment, but the jury is still out as to whether it will result in a changed behavior.
OK first of all I have no clear idea as to the technicalities at issue, but I do agree that Linus is in control of the finished product.
With that said, if Linus had an on going issue with this guy he should have addressed it directly instead of the starting with the sweeping generalization "By their you mean ".
Waiting for something to break and then throwing a tantrum and saying "its my ball I'm not letting you play with it now", is as childish as it seems. A good manager should have pulled this guy up a long time ago and said "Don't try any of that shit any more. If you do here is what is going to happen..". A bad manager blows up about it in public.
The first point of the quoted FAQ still applies, as do pretty well most of the others.
And why the fuck do we care about micro-optimising the Burning Man departure queue? If the Burning Man forums don't care (and I take it that those forums are where all the affected people hangout), why should
There is a similar issue with Civil war artifacts in the US. Relics are worth $$ in the collectors market, but by law you are not allowed to use things like metal detectors on known battlefields. However a couple of years a local guy started doing exactly that. He found, dug up and sold stuff, but with no regards to keeping any records. When he finally got busted the historians didn't know whether to laugh or cry as they now had access to a huge collection of artifacts, but with zero provenance.
And this kind of stupidity is proof that freedom is bullshit.
Are Zebras Black with White stripes or White with Black stripes?
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