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It's a specific format of response called Fisking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking Amongst other things it's been use
by mhw 15y ago
It's a specific format of response called Fisking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking
Amongst other things it's been used many times previously to take apart the justifications that are often written to explain why a company's stupid moves aren't really stupid.
The "high as a kite" line is somewhat obligatory and comes from the sadly-departed Mark Pilgrim's skewering of Joel Spolsky, who was trying to tell everyone that IE8 was going to be a really good web browser when it came to implementing web standards, and that the standards didn't really matter much anyway. You can relive this moment from web history here: http://web.archive.org/web/20110514122550/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/03/18/translation-from-ms-speak-to-english-of-selected-portions-of-joel-spolskys-martin-headsets http://web.archive.org/web/20110514122550/http://diveintomar...
- Indyan 15y agoI believe that Pilgrim took that "High as a kite" quote from Gruber himself. http://web.archive.org/web/20110131103908/http://daringfireball.net/2007/02/macrovision_translation http://web.archive.org/web/20110131103908/http://daringfireb...
- mhw 15y agoAh, right you are. The rabbit hole goes deeper than my memory does these days.
- Luyt 15y agoAbout Fisking, Robert Fisk himself wrote: "I have to be honest: I don't use the Internet. I've never seen a blog in my life. I don't even use email, I don't waste my time with this. I am not interested. I couldn't care less. I think the Internet has become a hate machine for a lot of people and I want nothing to do with it." [1] Robert Fisk seems to equate the Web with the Internet. You can't really blame him. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking