Perhaps the benefit (fewer commits like this) is worth the cost. I suspect it is.
Yes he does:
"now I'll have to call you perkeleen vittupää"
And according to other comments in this thread, it is apparently quite a foul moniker.
This sort of management style has been lauded on HN ("It worked for Jobs!"), but I have to agree with foobarbazqux's comment[1]; I just don't understand why folks are so eager to not only overlook, but to praise this sort of behvior.
Of course, if he also gets angry about not-the-product, he might be horrible to work with--but I've never seen this to be the case; Linus seems like a genuinely nice guy in every other situation.
"perkeleen vittupää"
> All his ire is directed at the commit.
If you made me dinner and I told you over and over that it tasted like crap, I would be attacking you, not the dinner. Plus there's this:
"you clearly never even test-compiled it, did you? ...I don't see how you could have avoided this honking huge warning otherwise."
People don't work like a fixed programmed rule engine. In the real world people have emotions.
an important lesson, learn it fast.