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Quotes of the week

cry_regarder — 2013-09-30T21:50:40+00:00

My favorite from the pdf: "and otherwise multiply vast, unfathomably dimensioned matrices in a desperate attempt to unlock eigenvectors whose desolate grandeur could only be imagined by Edgar Allen Poe"

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jzbiciak — 2013-09-30T12:03:06+00:00

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.'"

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sitaram — 2013-09-28T10:50:38+00:00

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!

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gmaxwell — 2013-09-26T17:51:47+00:00

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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dvdeug — 2013-09-26T17:36:12+00:00

Concretely, using capital letters for emphasis is bad typographical form.

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hummassa — 2013-09-26T11:19:39+00:00

It's just plain ugly, anyway, Jon. It offends (at least mine, LaTeX-trained) sensibilities as how an article should look like. :-D

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boudewijn — 2013-09-26T06:34:11+00:00

Adobe InDesign.

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corbet — 2013-09-26T06:30:43+00:00

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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gmaxwell — 2013-09-26T01:26:21+00:00

I don't know what software did the typesetting for Mickens PDF, but ... Ouch. Whatever it was, IT WAS THE WORST IDEA EVER.