what did i say? what did i just say? i wrote:

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, nick wrote:

On 14-09-17 07:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

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  and, as we've all seen, nick's other flaw is that, quite simply,
he's selfish and greedy. his entire obsession is with the output
of checkpatch, which means he wants to grab all the trivial
cleanup (the low-hanging fruit, as it were) for himself, and not
leave any for others. rather than take the time to understand the

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code, nick wants checkpatch to do all the work for him. in the
end, nick doesn't want to do any work or understand how the kernel
actually works -- he just wants patches, and he wants them as
quickly and cheaply as possible.

  to which nick responds (unbelievably, and confirming what i had
just written):

That's not what I wanted I was trying to improve my rep after
getting banned from vger.org and now it seems I can't even get a
patch right. In addition I was trying to do check patch because it
was easier for me due to not understanding some parts of the code.

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  i rarely have my speculation confirmed so rapidly and completely.

rday

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