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born 1969 Finland
Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American computer programmer, best known as the creator of the Linux kernel.
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Also known as: Linus, Linus Benedict Torvalds, Linus torvalds, Torvalds, Linus, David Diamond, The father of Linux
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There aren't enough swear-words in the English language, so now I'll have to call you perkeleen vittupää just to express my disgust and frustration with this crap.
The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.
The day we finally get rid of HIGHMEM I will dance on its grave. I have hated that thing for a long long time.
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)
Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.
I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right [...].
Lawsuits destroy community. They destroy trust. They would destroy all the goodwill we've built up over the years by being nice.
Please, as you emerge from your holiday-induced food coma, do give it a quick test so that we can all be happy about the final release next weekend.
There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions.
The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.
C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.
If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.
It’s Caturday. Minky is no longer with us, but this is probably my favorite picture of her.
I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.
I know most of us are preparing for Christmas, but give it a whirl, ok? How important are those presents (and that family) anyway?
I may be a huge computer nerd, but even so I don't think education should be about computers. Not as a subject, and not as a classroom resource either.
Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth.
I was thrown out of fourth grade because I couldn't write my own name, and it's been all downhill from there.
The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
Don't use ZFS. It's that simple. It was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel, and the licensing issues just make it a non-starter for me.