As a child in 1977, John had met Gordon Moore; Gordon had pulled a quarter from behind John’s ear and then proclaimed that he would pull twice as many quarters from John’s ear every 18 months. Moore, of course, was an incorrigible liar
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Fundamentally speaking, one thing that's kinda weird about a lot of these services is that they're basically built around this model of creating a new type of poor person
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[startup pitch] Using advanced machine learning, we decide which rich people should take which teeth from the poor people
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A modern Web page is a catastrophe. It’s like a scene from one of those apocalyptic medieval paintings that depicts what would happen if Galactus arrived
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[A] Web page is now like V’Ger from the first “Star Trek” movie, a piece of technology that we once understood but can no longer fathom, a thrashing leviathan of code and markup written by people so untrustworthy that they’re not even third parties, they’re fifth parties
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[W3C] specifications are binding upon browser vendors in the same way that you can ask a Gila monster to meet you at the airport
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Quirks mode was originally invented because many Web pages were made during the Eisenhower administration, and the computing industry wanted to preserve Web-based narratives about why “the rock and roll” is corrupting our youth
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It never gets better. As shown by this graph, life only gets worse. Time is on the X axis, worseness is on the Y axis. That line is going up and to the right, ladies and gentlemen. So: let's talk about computer security
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So, if you believe in the Internet of Things — which, by the way, you should not —
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That function has an argument that's a pointer to THE UNIVERSE. Where do I get a UNIVERSE POINTER? I am not GALACTUS!pic.twitter.com/OyxeWEF0v9
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Okay, that's enough of that. You have been reading a thread of out-of-context screengrabs and quotes of the venerable James Mickens: admire him, follow him, buy locks of his hair
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