It’s like working in an IT department where all of your colleagues make fun and yell at you in order to motivate you to get the job done. Unfortunately, this all stems from the head penguin himself… Linus Torvalds. He leads with a sharp and iron tongue. His foul and abusive language is what he strongly believes gets things done.
First off, I’m no prude (far, far from it, in fact). Second of all, Torvalds is very, very wrong. Let me explain.
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