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On 15/04/13 16:56, bad apple wrote:
I got as far as 'Steve Jobs ... Pope' of some similar crap and thought BS;DR; and if it had been on paper it would have hung in my outdoor loo.On 15/04/13 14:32, Philip Hudson wrote:Ever feel like you've been swindled? http://thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler -- Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63Well, I read that entire bombastic article and the overwhelming impression I came away with is that the people who write for "The Baffler" aren't anywhere near as clever as they'd like to think they are. Before IT came along I was an academic (Philosophy/Theology) so I have a very highly tuned bullshit detector for that kind of thing, and it was on full alert just a couple of paragraphs in. So, Tim O'Reilly is a bit of a blowhard: who didn't know that already? I occasionally buy technical books from that company because of their deserved reputation in publishing technical documentation, not for any other reason, and personally couldn't care less about their founder's spouting off in conference-land, fondness for inventing new memes or political leanings. That article had TL;DR all over it, should have followed my instincts and actually not bothered reading it. Ah well. Regards
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