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The Shanley Show: Was The Whole Thing An Elaborate Hoax?

Dan Lyons · 02/02/15 12:00PM

Over the past two years, Shanley Kane achieved a kind of celebrity on Twitter, where, as @shanley, she claimed to be leading a crusade for women in tech. But now some people wonder if the whole thing was a massive hoax.

Linus Torvalds Does Not Give A Shit About You And Your Dumb Opinions

Dan Lyons · 01/16/15 03:16PM

Linus Torvalds created Linux, and you didn't. What else do you need to know? Torvalds was at some conference in New Zealand this week and pesky question people started giving him shit for not being very nice on the mailing list where sad pee-stained losers Linux developers communicate and work together to make the glorious software known as Linux. Someone pointed out that Torvalds was kind of abrasive online, only to find out that in fact Torvalds is even worse IRL.