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Posted Jul 22, 2010 1:24 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165)
Parent article: The end of the road for the Nexus One

This story may mark a new high in our esteemed editor's compositional career. Such vigorous adjectives! Such heady analogies! I look forward eagerly to further examples.

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Posted Jul 22, 2010 2:22 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] (2 responses)

Quote of the week

Your editor will confess that he still feels a certain childlike joy at the prospect of reflashing an expensive device that he depends on, possibly bricking it, then painfully restoring all of the settings and discovering all of the new bugs which have been added. It's the sort of adrenaline experience that others, perhaps, seek through horror movies, bungee jumping, investing in equities, or PHP programming. -- Jon Corbet

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Posted Jul 22, 2010 12:38 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (guest, #15022) [Link]

It definitely qualifies -- if someone else had written that on linux-kernel, it would wind up here as a QotW.

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Posted Jul 22, 2010 21:02 UTC (Thu) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545) [Link]

Sounds like life with my freerunner

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Posted Jul 22, 2010 10:44 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

This piece expertly alternates horribly depressing content with witty and dry presentation. I'd say 'more, more' but more content like this requires more things to go wrong in the Linux world, so perhaps not.

Still, I found myself driven to read the bit Joe Buck pointed out to others in the room, a definite sign of very good writing (or, others might argue, of bad taste on my part).

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Posted Jul 23, 2010 21:14 UTC (Fri) by filipjoelsson (guest, #2622) [Link]

I laughed out loud when I originally read the same bit and when my wife looked questioningly at me, I read it to her too. Apart from having to explain flashing and bricking to her (we're not native english speakers) - she thought it very funny. Not least of all because I currently program PHP for a living.

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Posted Jul 22, 2010 16:14 UTC (Thu) by kamil (guest, #3802) [Link]

and it doesn't even come with a free case

That gave me a chuckle. Classic Jon Corbet.

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Posted Jul 23, 2010 0:07 UTC (Fri) by moreati (subscriber, #5715) [Link]

Just a me-too. That was an informative and amusing article. Bravo.