Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.