indefensible: john gruber

lol

mh invite me to the slack you can figure out my email

i wish to be in the slack thank u

dude you got invited and never responded mr. lag∞n
will message silby

If I can, I'd like to be in the ilx Slack too. I use it for work all the time.

oops the invitation went directly into one of my many folders!

i am on this chat now

Slack me

would luv to slack thank you (cwsmith at gmail I don't think my ilx mail works)

just want to warn u guys we r talking 100% "product" over there

Can somebody give me an update on the slacking

meanwhile over on the thurrott thread it's non stop yammer invite reqs

plz to have a slack invite email in profile

sorry guys I will work on this

plz ilx message me your email address, except for Clay, he will be getting one shortly

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i reinvited u clay

i made us a special cannel to hang out in and gossip

got the same error

sry guys I unclicked some things I clicked due to some dissension in the ranks but it'll be cool shortly

sorted xp :)

i made us a special cannel to hang out in and gossip

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 7, 2015 11:52 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol how did this take like years to get running, this could be the endgame

this has prompted me to get off my backside and set up slack for a couple of my projects at work. fedoras off to u all

Do I dare

Do I dare

Do I dare read Gruber's review of the APPLE WATCH

5490 words including footnotes

the verges is comically long and strange too

How many of these reviews feel like writers trying to convince themselves that the product is good and not bad

NB I haven't read any of them but I imagine it is all of the reviews

You’re 16. You’re in school. You’re sitting in class. You have a crush on another student — you’ve fallen hard. You can’t stop thinking about them. You suspect the feelings are mutual — but you don’t know. You’re afraid to just come right out and ask, verbally — afraid of the crushing weight of rejection. But you both wear an Apple Watch. So you take a flyer and send a few taps. And you wait. Nothing in response. Dammit. Why are you so stupid? Whoa — a few taps are sent in return, along with a hand-drawn smiley face. You send more taps. You receive more taps back. This is it. You send your heartbeat. It is racing, thumping. Your crush sends their heartbeat back.

You’re flirting. Not through words. Not through speech. Physically flirting, by touch. And you’re not even in the same classroom. Maybe you don’t even go to the same school.

i feel like people are going to be using their watches to send crude drawings of dongs to each other 95% of the time

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Posted: April 8, 2015 at 11:55:14 AM
How many of these reviews feel like writers trying to convince themselves that the product is good and not bad

the verges (only skimmed) seems to be trying to make the argument that its simultaneously bad and amazing

is there a cockring version of the watch band

you're 16. you're at home. you have no friends. it's midnight. for some reason you have two apple watches. you put them both on and start tapping

xpost lol

you're 16. you're at home. you have no friends. it's midnight. for some reason you have two apple watches. you put them both on and start tfapping

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12:07 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark

FTFY

I feel like there are lots of real cool things that can be done with it and these writers are brainstorming so they can look visionary if any of these things stick

Literally the only use I can think of for this thing now is measuring your fap speed

There's a really cool book "authored" by Bill Gates from 1995 or so where there's only passing references made to the usefulness of the internet and they had to print a second edition a year later with all these internet predictions, then they claim it was all in the original book

theres a thinkpiece to be written abt how visionary brainstorming has nothing at all to do with how actual innovation happens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_%28Bill_Gates_book%29#Content_differences_between_hardback_and_trade_editions

I guess what I'm saying is to aim a little high, you will at least make it on to lists of silliest predictions or w/e and not "this guy reiterated for the millionth time how cool encyclopedias on CD-ROM are"

something to be said about how science fiction writers write about the now but with subtle differences and they're more right than visionaries who think up stupid crap

doubt the hit rate is too high for either

yeah, but science fiction doesn't claim predictive powers, they just gloat when that happens to happen

i mean predicting the future is hard, making small improvements to existing technology in ways that actually help ppl is also hard but in the doing actual work sort of way

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/back-to-the-future-dusting-off-bill-gates-the-road-ahead/

Wallet PCs with the proper equipment will be able to tell you where you are anyplace on the face of the Earth. GPS receivers…will be built into many wallet PCs. The wallet PC will connect you to the information highway while you travel a real highway and tell you where you are. Its built-in speaker will be able to dictate directions to you to let you know that a freeway exit is coming up or that the next intersection has frequent accidents. It will monitor digital traffic reports and warn you that you’d better leave for the airport early or suggest an alternate route…

Some wallet PCs will be simple and elegant and offer only the essentials such as a small screen, a microphone, a secure way to transact business with digital money, and the capability to read or otherwise use basic information. Others will bristle with all kinds of gadgets, including cameras, scanners that will be able to read printed text or handwriting, and receivers with the global-positioning capability. Most will have a panic button for you to press when you need emergency help. Some models will include thermometers, barometers, altimeters, and heart-rate sensors. Prices will vary accordingly, but generally wallet PCs will be priced about the way cameras are today…

hey look bill g. basically outlined the iPhone and Apple Watch functionality in 1995, with the emphasis on all the wrong parts and no extensibility

the verges (only skimmed) seems to be trying to make the argument that its simultaneously bad and amazing

― lag∞n, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12:06 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did you catch the part where he acts like a dick to the person he's getting drinks with b/c he keeps checking the watch

lol no, classic

i love how one of the arguments for this device is that its "less intrusive"

if you have tried to use google maps when walking through an actual city that might be a thing, looking at your watch when it buzzes to see it says "turn right" instead of pulling out yr phone or holding it in front of you is a pretty big diff

not exactly a killer app

if it keeps you from getting hit by a taxi when you pull out yr phone it might be a... saviour app