LOL. This rant from some Mozilla weenie is kinda awesome:
- It’s written by some some Firefreaker, blog-raging at Dave fucking Winer. That’s sort of like MC Hammer sending hateful singing telegrams to Mick Jagger[0]. It’s the freetard vs the me-tard.
- Everything Asa says about Dave is basically true[1].
- Everything that Asa says about Firefox, except one thing[3], is a crock of shit. So you can tell he must really sincerely believe it! Otherwise… you know, he’d notice.
- “The Awesomebar has changed the Web.” LOL, jesus fucking christ. The “Awesome bar”.
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[0]: the many, many ways that this analogy works are left as an exercise for the reader
[1]: which is actually why I do keep Dave in my RSS reader, albeit pretty far down the list
[2]: The fact that a non-MSIE browser got significant market share really did help the world, of course. But it was also utterly inevitable. So is Firefox better than the browser that would have come along a bit later had Firefox not come along? Nobody knows, obviously. But is Firefox in the present day better than Chrome/Safari/whatever? That’s knowable.
[3]: There is no footnote 3.
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Posted 25 March 2009
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OCSNG generates garbage mojibake data from Japanese Windows XP client PCs. The PC entries in the database end up with fields like “Description: ՠԼÂ@’î“ñ”. NG, indeed.
1.) Is the problem in the Windows OCSNG agent, or:
2.) Is the problem in the UNIX OCSNG server, or:
3.) Both?
So, let us begin the delightful process of debugging multibyte foreign language bugs in unsupported open-source software! Um, yee haw?
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Posted 19 March 2009
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Came home from another hard on-site day of infinitely pushing heavy Windows XP SP3 Japanese boulders[1] up the mythical mountain… should I go out and get wasted with my wetbrain friends? Go to bed at 8:30PM? Jump off my Tokyo highrise balcony and plunge to a comforting Windows-free death?
Oh, what’s that, iTunes has a rec for me? Really, Eat Static has a new one already? Yes! (New to me, at least; it was actually released last year.)
Hmm! Maybe I should fucking sit down and write some fucking code![2]
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Posted 13 March 2009
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Siracusa recently wrote some stuff about books[1]. I personally like books a lot[2]. And conceptually (though not so much yet in practice), I like ebooks even more.
Last year, Amazon tried to reboot (by which I mean boot) the ebook revolution with the Kindle. Unfortunately, though, the Kindle is a foul turd[3].
But turds, albeit stinky and ugly, do serve a purpose. And even smart people have to drop a turd from time to time[4].
On the other hand, what if you could dehydrate a useful turd down to a very small size, such that it was invisible and didn’t stink[5]? Didn’t VMWare basically make a multibilliondollar company out of that idea? Yes!
Like most people, I rarely choose to carry turds around with me in my pocket. But exceptions to the no-turds policy do have some precedent, at least when the turds in question are of the weightless, stinkless, virtual variety… enter Amazon’s v-turd, also known as Kindle for iPhone.
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Posted 06 March 2009
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My new Japanese ashtray makes it easy to quantify my failure to quit smoking.
Plus, it closes shut to keep the stinky mess in.
Finally, the iPhone camera is an embarrassment.
*: or at least, to smell bad and age faster.
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Posted 23 November 2008
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President Barack Hussein Obama.
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
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Posted 05 November 2008
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So, Green Mars
and Blue Mars
turned out to be just as good as Red Mars, which is quite an impressive fucking feat. All told, one thousand four hundred sixteen pages of awesome.
I think Green Mars might be the best of the three.
One big reason is by the time you read Green, you are already seven or eight hundred pages in, so if one of the colonists decides to take a rover out in the desert for some geological surveying and deep introspective thinking for a couple weeks (and twenty uninterrupted pages), as the reader you are by now used to that kind of thing happening from time to time, and it’s no longer so jarring to be separated from the other parallel plot threads for so long.
The other reason is simply that by the time you slog through to the end of Blue, you’ve been reading this story for so fucking incredibly loooong…
But all three of these books are great.
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Posted 02 November 2008
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You know, just like me. But uh, the difference is, he writes it down.
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Posted 23 September 2008
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…that would be pretty cool. Biden was always my second choice during the primary season, over Dodd, Giuliani, McCain, Richardson, Clinton, Romney, Huckabee, Paul, Edwards, that crazy anti-immigration guy who stuttered and looked like he would cry when the moderators wouldn’t let him finish what the fuck was it oh yeah Tancredo, um, Hunter, the UFO dude come on I almost have it whawhawhawhat was it god dammit he’s that guy from like Ohio hard to spell oh yeah Kucinich, and uh… that Alaskan geezer who filibustered (props) back in the Vietnam times uh uh uh Gravel, haha holy shit that actor cigar guy Fred Thompson and… well really I can’t remember any of the others without thinking so hard it hurts, and my blog is not reason enough to do that…
(BTW, I hope it’s obvious that the above list is not in any kind of order.)
We’ll know soon, in any event. UPDATE: It’s Biden.
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Posted 20 August 2008
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