Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it

• Goretantath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Isn’t some of Japanese writing vertical? Might help me learn.

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  • SolSerkonos@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, Japanese is written right to left, top to bottom. Traditionally, at least.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Imagine trying to read that

  Kernel code is very often a series of short words, and very often formatted to take a lot of vertical space (i.e lines of code). It can be hard to read, especially when it’s a short code that corresponds to a longer function or location; but with practice we can cope.

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  See? You’re expecting people to do it already. And kernel code confirms to the grammar a lot more than American 'english.

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  • SolSerkonos@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wasn’t trying to suggest that it would be impossible- it’s obviously not. Just that it would be a difficult adjustment.

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