From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261821AbTEFU1z (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 16:27:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261825AbTEFU1y (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 16:27:54 -0400 Received: from watch.techsource.com ([209.208.48.130]:47299 "EHLO techsource.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261821AbTEFU1y (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 16:27:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB81CBC.1000801@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 16:36:12 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Davidsen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [2.5.68] Scalability issues References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bill Davidsen wrote: > > It's a shame that some people seem to think that lots of hard work > entitles them to be rude and condescending, while really important > contributors like Alan Cox, Ingo and akpm can be polite and helpful, even > when they are correcting someone or disagreeing on an approach to a > problem. > I read an article a while back by Paul Graham (LISP guru, SPAM filterer, etc.) about Junior High School social dynamics. The people at the top are confident, while the people in the middle want to climb the popularity ladder and do so by pushing others down.