"Fedora, an operating system used in China" ...seriously?
I had my doubts about this article, but after that line, it's really hard for me to take it seriously.
The Geeks on the Front Lines
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#12"Fedora, an operating system used in China" ...seriously? I had my doubts about this article, but after that line, it's really hard for me to take it seriously.
Well, if at least one person uses Fedora in China, that statement is true.
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#13"Fedora, an operating system used in China" ...seriously? I had my doubts about this article, but after that line, it's really hard for me to take it seriously.
Well, if at least one person uses Fedora in China, that statement is true.
Yeah, but that's not how that sentence is parsed by somebody who doesn't know what Fedora is.
"They're hacking Fedora, one of the most popular Operating Systems in the enterprise world, created and developed mostly in the US"
vs
"They're hacking Fedora, an operating system used in China"
Both sentences are true, but the resulting spin is quite different. A person who doesn't know anything about Fedora, next time he's offered to install Fedora by his professional geek of choice, will associate it with Chinese hackers. Great, isn't it?
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#14Is there a printable, text-only version? The animation is distracting and my CPU fan is spinning because of it.
No. There's no print stylesheet, and it breaks on readability. Otherwise, you could try blocking JS on the page.
Best to copy-paste everything into your plaintext editor of choice. Bit screwy, but it's better than the existing page.
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#15Now, that is awesome JS work.
It's really great whenever I get to see media folks actually using web tech to display a story in an awesome, creative way, instead of just serving more social media garbage. We have hyper-media for all now, so we really should encourage using it.
You seem to be in a minority on this; I thought it was technically impressive, but the majority of people appear not to like it.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's really great whenever I get to see media folks actually using web tech to display a story in an awesome, creative way, instead of just serving more social media garbage. We have hyper-media for all now, so we really should encourage using it.
You seem to be in a minority on this; I thought it was technically impressive, but the majority of people appear not to like it.
Or the people who comment are the ones who are pissed off, and the people who think it's just kinda nice don't bother.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
You seem to be in a minority on this; I thought it was technically impressive, but the majority of people appear not to like it.
Or the people who comment are the ones who are pissed off, and the people who think it's just kinda nice don't bother.
Yes, but data you can't measure may as well not exist.
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#18Good job by Mr. Motto. I especially liked the scroll to read intro. Most of the comments on RS about the layout seem positive.
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#19This is text with a few hyperlinks. It is exactly what HTML and the web were originally intended for. Why can't people just put some damned text at a URL? I'm too annoyed by the fact that I have to interact with this godawful, pointless JavaScript nonsense to actually read this article. There's a time and a place and this is not it.
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#20Impressive presentation, if you're trying to show off. Terrible otherwise, and the content is just dumb. David Kushner has always struck me as one of those superficial tech journalists who writes about it all the time, but largely avoids attempting to explain the important technical details to the audience well. He's either dumbing it down on purpose because he thinks his audience will be easily confused, or he really has a meager understanding himself. Regardless, I don't think he's doing his audience a service when he puts this 'Hackerz-are-l33t' theme on this article like he's submitting a screenplay to Hollywood.
He's basically like the 'Smykowski' character from Office Space; trying to justify his job ("I talk to the engineers so you don't have to!"), but in the end, he's not really doing anything.
This is an important topic and it deserves to be treated much more seriously. I feel embarrassed for Rolling Stone here. It's style over content and the fancy animations are just compensating for an otherwise shallow article.