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One would be wise to not take the article at face-value. It is written by Daniel Lyons, famous for his parody of Apple fanaticism in the now-defunct blog Fake
by pohl 17y ago
One would be wise to not take the article at face-value. It is written by Daniel Lyons, famous for his parody of Apple fanaticism in the now-defunct blog Fake Steve Jobs. When Steve took ill, Daniel quit that blog and attempted to start one under his real name, and it was one of the most spectacular flameouts I've ever seen on the web.
The guy can be a great writer at times, but I wouldn't trust him to be genuine.
- dinkumthinkum 17y agoI was vaguely familiar with that. To me that kind of stuff is basically 4chan jibberish. The problem with this position, for me, is that all of those kinds of justifications are irrelevant as this is a Newsweek article. As well if this was such a sarcasm or parody, I would expect a little more of it and more wit. Here, it is just "Bad argument... prattle prattle ... Windows 7 crashed ..."
- pohl 17y agoI'm not sure I understand your use of the word 'justification'. (I'm don't know anything about 4chan or what someone there might try to justify.) I was certainly not trying to make apologies for the author by warning you away from the apparent meaning of the text. Quite the opposite: I thought the article had no value whatsoever - but because of the subtext and the context.