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so...is it the blogger or the title that makes this not blog spam? it's just a link to jrmuizel's rather level headed blog post from a month ago. spoiler: http

so...is it the blogger or the title that makes this not blog spam? it's just a link to jrmuizel's rather level headed blog post from a month ago. spoiler: http://muizelaar.blogspot.com/2011/04/webp.html http://muizelaar.blogspot.com/2011/04/webp.html

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zbowling 15y ago
because it's Jamie Zawinski. he is a famous hacker. he wrote XScreenSaver and founded Netscape and Mozilla and dumped a ton of code into XEmacs. Also runs a night club in SF called DNA Lounge.
- tptacek 15y ago
  And? He's not a codec designer. JWZ didn't ask anyone to submit his post here, but in the context of HN, this is just linkjacking. Someone should replace it with a link to the real story.
  - zbowling 15y ago
    And what? I was only pointing out the significance of the person as to why he is trending because it sounds if they were not aware of who he was. I'm not giving a position either way as to if this post deserves to be trending or killed as blog spam. The real story was up trending earlier though.
macrael 15y ago
jwz is pretty well respected, especially in this field. He was one of the original authors of Netscape Navigator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
- tptacek 15y ago
  Zawinski would be the first to tell you that he is not pretty well respected in the field of image compression codecs, and he hasn't had anything to do with Mozilla for almost (maybe over?) a decade now.