sceaux
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Comment · 3 years ago
As a teenager I found this exact same ad in a Star Trek novel from the library.
My first naive impression with these black bars was exactly as you said, that the original text is "under" them and just stuff incidentally referring to soup was left visible. "Look how clever we are, changing a replicator scene to a noodle-soup scene with just a bit of tweaking".
But it wasn't, of course. Its just a way to make you read it because you think its somehow still part of the novel. After the ad, the whole page starts again with its real (and completely different) content.
Comment · 3 years ago
Could you maybe provide an actual argument? I am german and legitimately not sure. Maybe share the Californian perspective?
Comment · 3 years ago
About a year ago my (new-ish founder) boss came to me and asked me to build him a custom dashboard. "I have all the data in a spreadsheet but I want it in a dashboard" he said. I was a specialized systems dev, only occasionally doing a bit of webdev if necessary and really didn't have time for those kind of errands.
I showed him this tutorial I had recently seen. Just a few minutes and the thumbnail, about how to build a "dashboard" in excel. https://youtu.be/z26zbiGJnd4?si=HWn8qTbozD8vmXiF
"Oh wow, I didn't know excel could look so beautiful!". He asked for the link, never did anything with it of course but was totally satisfied. I am pretty sure he just wanted a shiny toy and also felt inadequate about "just using excel" to do his important founder work. Showing him that excel can look beautiful and is a powerful tool was enough. No more feeling inadequate, no need for an actual (or even excel) dashboard.
Comment · 3 years ago
And but we’re supposed to believe that Apple deliberately made the iPhone’s charging and data port worse, for years, for a fistful or two of dollars? My god, the sheer arrogance it takes to believe that Apple takes for granted an iota of the iPhone’s success and enduring popularity.
Oh Gruber. It's fine to pick sides, I even like this style more than noncommittal "there are pro's and con's" pieces. But quotes like this, peppered into all his work, stray too far away from a review. Not just by an iota.