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sarah.thesharps.us
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sarah.thesharps.us is a personal blog at sarah.thesharps.us about programming and culture. Since 2009, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “No more verbal abuse [on LKML]”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts by Sarah Sharp, a Linux kernel developer, on verbal abuse on kernel mailing lists, her 2015 departure from the kernel community, and what makes a good community. HN cites them as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- No more verbal abuse [on LKML]3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-07-16
- Closing a door3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-05
- What makes a good community?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-06
What Hacker News says?
Sarah Sharp leaving the kernel community comes to mind (although Torvalds is not mentioned by name but more a perspective on the whole community). http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/05/closing-a-door/
Comment linking /2015/10/05/closing-a-door/
on ““I have toyota corola””Submitted Closing a door as a story · 357 points
HN discussion> Reading these notes make me feel embarrassed for the author. If that post made you feel this way, then her follow-up article will have you cringing and wincing: http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/06/what-makes-a-good-commu... Aparently she knows for a fact that all those points definitely make a good community, despite never having run one the size and scale of the Linux kernel project. Pure arrogance and entitleme…
Comment linking /2015/10/06/what-makes-a-good-community/
on “Closing a door”Submitted What makes a good community? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionFortunately, I don't have to spend part of my vacation wading into that cesspit to satisfy your faux-curiosity. Others have already done so. The canonical example, of course, is Sarah Sharp. http://sarah.thesharps.us/2013/07/15/no-more-verbal-abuse/ https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/329 There are also plenty of examples here. http://fortunes.cat-v.org/kernelnewbies/ Just look for "crap" or "s--t" or "idiot" or "Viro".…
Comment linking /2013/07/15/no-more-verbal-abuse/
on “GCC 4.9 is doing “some seriously crazy shit” according to Linus Torvalds”Submitted Impact of bots on GitHub communities as a story · 3 points
HN discussionsource is her blog entry http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/05/closing-a-door/
Comment linking /2015/10/05/closing-a-door/
on “Linux kernel dev Sarah Sharp quits”Submitted The Gentle Art of Patch Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSarah Sharp linked to this on her blog [1], but the discussion itself is more interesting. [1] http://sarah.thesharps.us/2013/07/15/no-more-verbal-abuse/
Comment linking /2013/07/15/no-more-verbal-abuse/
on “Verbal Abuse on the Linux Mailing Lists”Submitted Outreach Program for Women: kernel internship report as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted No more verbal abuse [on LKML] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux - The first to support USB 3.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metrics of haters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to approach a new system: Linux graphics and Mesa as a story · 2 points
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