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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Sep 26, 2013 6:30 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Quotes of the week by gmaxwell Parent article: Quotes of the week Is it the typesetting, or the rendering? Evince displays the article just fine; the Firefox built-in PDF renderer, instead, mangles it.
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Quotes of the week Posted Sep 26, 2013 11:19 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
It's just plain ugly, anyway, Jon. It offends (at least mine, LaTeX-trained) sensibilities as how an article should look like. :-D
Quotes of the week Posted Sep 26, 2013 17:36 UTC (Thu) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]
Concretely, using capital letters for emphasis is bad typographical form.
Quotes of the week Posted Sep 28, 2013 10:50 UTC (Sat) by sitaram (subscriber, #5959) [Link]
I thought the caps were part of the joke.
This was a very nice read. The guy has a future as a Dave Barry replacement or something like that!
Quotes of the week Posted Sep 30, 2013 12:03 UTC (Mon) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link] I found it amusing as well, especially since he touches on several topics I have to deal with regularly as an SoC architect. The quote above is particularly amusing, since we're dealing with rising FIT rates in our chips. A later quote was even more amusing to me: All of these techniques could be implemented. However, John slowly realized that these solutions were just things that he could do, and inventing “a thing that you could do” is a low bar for human achievement. Sometimes it feels that way, when you're looking at techniques to detect errors in silicon and prevent them from causing a safety issue, for example. "Yep, that's definitely 'a thing that you could do.'"
Quotes of the week Posted Sep 26, 2013 17:51 UTC (Thu) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048) [Link]
That was my first guess, and indeed it does look somewhat worse in pdf.js, but even in evince it looks pretty bad to me.
Sorry for the tangent though. I found it to be a hilarious and enjoyable read, and well worth enduring the typesetting. I'm very glad it was posted.
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