A little Duplex scepticism

Re:A little Duplex scepticism by eksemplar on Sunday May 13, 2018 @05:22AM (#17058060)

I don’t know if this is classic Gruber. I’ve read a lot of his stuff and it’s always been interesting. Now I haven’t followed him closely either, so maybe I’ve only seen the good stuff, but this is the first time I’ve come away from it thinking he was an idiot.

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Re:A little Duplex scepticism by neya on Sunday May 13, 2018 @06:09AM (#17058179)

If you've been following the Markdown debacle closely[1], this is classic Gruber.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...

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Re:A little Duplex scepticism by Marazan on Sunday May 13, 2018 @05:45AM (#17058113)

Gruber's stock in trade is ambiguous 1 line response to an extract from an article he's linked to which he can then criticise people for mis interpreting.

Once you've noticed this pattern it's much harder to take his (often very good) long form pieces seriously.

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Re:A little Duplex scepticism by Marazan on Sunday May 13, 2018 @05:48AM (#17058125)

Also his total and complete inability to admit he was 100% wrong about large screened phones being successful is painful.

Gruber/Apple is never wrong - but sometimes reality realigns.

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