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by johng 78 days ago
I still find it quite amazing how Linus Torvalds must be as both a programmer and a steward of projects.

He didn't like any of the OS's out there, decided to make his own and it's essentially taken over the world.

He didn't like any source control systems, decided to make his own and it's essentially taken over the world.

Just kind of mind boggling... it's hard enough to design something once that people really love. Doing it twice like that is still amazing to me.
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verdverm 77 days ago
There is a quote of Linus that impacted how I select technology, something like

> I choose Fedora because it just works. I want to spend my time working on the kernel, not fiddling to get my OS to work.

So I choose mature technologies for the non-core competencies I'm working with, so I can focus on those core competencies. It's a medicine for NIH syndrome.

I'm personally switched from (n)vim to vscode for this reason, so I can now fiddle with a custom agent setup.

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