however as to his core competency, i do believe hes one of the best writers on design out there today
he doesn't really do this any more though?
― caek, Sunday, 19 June 2011 10:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Got sick of his blog a while ago - but I have to admit his comment on the Chromebook is kinda on point, why does it deserve a "good try!" sentiment?
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 June 2011 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Gruber's predictions that don't come true are still reasonable and make sense when you evaluate the facts available at the time. He can't rely on his mysterious inside sources all the time, you see.
You don't have to believe me, just ask Gruber. He's always Gruber. I mean, right.
― mh, Sunday, 19 June 2011 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
― caek, Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:18 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah its not most of his posts, but when he does write a long piece i feel like he really gets where design is at re todays technologies
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 14:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
also hes a v good clear writer
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
chrisdejabet Chris De Jabet by daringfireballJust got complimented on my @daringfireball shirt at the Apple Store. Because I'm handsome.18 hours ago
*stabs twitter in the face*
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
thought it was really out of line when this guy shot mr takagi
― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 19 June 2011 15:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
i really like gruber
which mac writers do you guys really like? i could use some more feeds in my google reader
― markers, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jean-Louis Gassee
― lukas, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
totally forgot abt him, thanking u
― markers, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
feel like this post embodies many of his less good qualities
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
how long till some shill links him this thread and ilx gets ~fireballed~
― summer is coming (cozen), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
one can dream
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
You are trying to view American McCarver on a shitty browser. Won't work.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 12:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Note that the UI screenshots are even set in Helvetica, not Arial. Some of the best evidence of good taste at Google I can ever recall.
duly noted.
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/28/google-plus-videos
― joe, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
guh arial and helvetica are like exactly the same shit stfu already
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
A friend shared this blog post on Google Reader: http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.html
I’d buy the NYT (for a mere $1.5bn!) and recruit John Gruber to be Editor in Chief of the “Yahoo! News” division.
I cried a little.
― mh, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh god, until I read that blog post in full I thought that was a joke, like forcing him to cover stories about Microsoft.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cringely's been half-nuts for years. Now I think he's full-nuts.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 30 June 2011 09:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
well, he's got a point
― caek, Thursday, 30 June 2011 09:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess it's not as bad as how he keeps referring to Paul Thurrott as a 'dick' purely because he writes about Microsoft.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 30 June 2011 09:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
cringelys nutsness is the best part of his shtick, guy is not afraid to think big
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think Cringely's being nuts there! Even if Jobs is showing pictures of full server rooms, it's not like he's shown pictures of the entire interior of the facility, and it's completely possible that it's not that densely populated.
― mh, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah but thats not some weird conspiracy designed to intimidate rivals, its just building out future capacity
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
p sure this dood killed caylee http://horace.dediu.usesthis.com
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 July 2011 03:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/cameronasshole
asshole
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/08/murdoch
"congratulations to the tories"
― joe, Friday, 8 July 2011 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
wish someone would put this asshole in a room w/paul thurrott and then they can mutually annihilate each other
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Friday, 8 July 2011 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe i've just been developing for legacy browsers too long at this point, but this kills me. laziest shit ever - you run a SPORTS BLOG ffs
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 8 July 2011 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
actually i think i hate sub-gruber wannabe sycophant ux doods even worse than gruber proper - so much hot air about making software "empathetic," so much whining about not getting paid to be a thought leader, so much referring to "marco" by the mononym...
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 8 July 2011 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Friday, 8 July 2011 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Read a blog post about grids. Saw a movie about Helvetica. Short. Terse. Sentences.
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Friday, 8 July 2011 22:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
TS: john gruber vs lieutenant gruber from 'allo 'allo
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Friday, 8 July 2011 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
RAGE!
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Friday, 8 July 2011 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
oops already posted X:
it cannot be mocked too often. the star was a nice touch.
― joe, Friday, 8 July 2011 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
I listened to some of his most recent podcasts during the week and was astounded by his and Dan Benjamin's claim that it gets 800,000 downloads an episode.
Err, what? Maybe it was some kind of belated rip on The Daily's iPad app but I think they were being serious. There's no way it's true, though.
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 9 July 2011 08:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think it's more like 400,000, but i could be wrong
800,000 was either the WWDC or post-WWDC download count iirc, but again, i could be wrong
― markers, Saturday, 9 July 2011 08:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's like his amazing high trafficked and revolutionary new sports website, which is actually a fucking tumble blog about baseball where you click on the notes to find less than half a dozen people 'liked' each post and fuck-all anybody reblogged anything, because why the fuck would you.
I'd rather read David Beckham's views on fonts an touch interfaces.
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 9 July 2011 08:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
are you kidding i'd TOTALLY read david beckham's views on fonts and touch interfaces
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 9 July 2011 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dean Martin’s recipe for hamburgers. Sounds perfect. ★
nice commentary.
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sounds like... salted meat and a glass of bourbon
― mh, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-March/001163.html
-J.G.
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I give it a C-. Not up to the high standards of open source assholery established by the likes of Linus Torvalds. Canonical example http://lwn.net/Articles/249460/
― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, in August, Apple is going to start selling Lion on USB sticks. But I think most of us really will be able to get by without them. That’s why the USB stick installers are going to cost $69, a $40 markup over the App Store download. Apple wants us to go download-only.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 21 July 2011 08:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Rather than try to one-up their selections I’m going to one-down them. Herewith, then, are the Top Ten Worst Westerns. Observations inside.
You can tell he’s right on most of these, from the posters alone.
god what a bore.
― caek, Thursday, 21 July 2011 11:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
dude is like a demigod of suburban consumerism, yelling so loudly about inane bullshit from atop a mountain of 'slightly used' apple products. good links sometimes tho.
― shaane, Thursday, 21 July 2011 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/20/scrollvetica
Scrollvetica.
SCROLLVETICA
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Thursday, 21 July 2011 16:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
not to mention scroll reverser has been around since day 1 of the lion betas
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Thursday, 21 July 2011 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
does it set yr scrollbars in helvetica
― markers, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Marco Arment is way worse; he's like distilled Gruber shit.
― stet, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dont get why foursquare has to be 'social'
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:50 (5 days ago) Permalink
rip paypal?
http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/
― caek, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:50 (5 days ago) Permalink
wish i had foursquare when i lived above a restaurant cause then i so wouldve been the mayor of that shit forever
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:51 (5 days ago) Permalink
hahaha
― markers, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:52 (5 days ago) Permalink
it goes 'your friend checks in here a lot so it's probably your thing' xp to 乒乓
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:52 (5 days ago) Permalink
paypal counters by now accepting bitcoins
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:52 (5 days ago) Permalink
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
thats pretty obnoxious i have much better taste than my friends
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:54 (5 days ago) Permalink
you can set it so it says 'your friend checks in here a lot so it's probably not your thing'
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:55 (5 days ago) Permalink
aaaaaaaahhhh now i understand *installs foursquare on my iPhone 5*
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:56 (5 days ago) Permalink
this is sort of random, but for example fucking livejournal was and is super easy to make fun of, but for the second half of my senior year of high school and my first year in college, it was actually a super profound service, because it let my friends and i write shit about our lives that only we'd see (via "friends only" posts), and it sort of enabled us to connect in a weird intimate way as a little group. that doesn't happen on facebook. that doesn't happen on tumblr. or at least not for me, not now. but for the time we were all on there it was something really neat, in retrospect.
― markers, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:57 (5 days ago) Permalink
not that foursquare enables anything useful, but maybe it does for someone.
it's not something i'm interested in using, personally
livejournal was cool i had a livejournal, in fact still do
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:57 (5 days ago) Permalink
lj was completely virtual tho, and anonymous (if u chose it), its the intersection of the virtual world and the real world that is gonna bring up some creepy and perhaps unexpectedly creepy situations and scenarios, a la foursquare
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:59 (5 days ago) Permalink
facebook in its early days enabled some crazy shit
― markers, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:59 (5 days ago) Permalink
how do i get linkedin to stop sending me emails?
― caek, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:59 (5 days ago) Permalink
im gonna tape my phone to a drone and check in all over town
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 May 2013 02:00 (5 days ago) Permalink
― markers, Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I did the autojournal thing, so i use foursquare disconnected from all social media mainly to note in my journal when i go somewhere interesting.
― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 16 May 2013 04:41 (5 days ago) Permalink
like, i can tell you that the only time you need to pay attention to jim dalrymple is when he does one of his "yep" or "nope" posts
Those one word yeps come off as so fucking haughty. Like "I will deign to address your rumour, but you shall get naught but one word from me, for I am so very important and my word shall be the final one on the subject." Ugh.
(even more annoying b/c like markers said he's normally right, which builds even more of a weird cult of personality around this dude who is basically a lonely beard just thinking baout angus young)
― sktsh, Thursday, 16 May 2013 09:08 (5 days ago) Permalink
I am starting to merge all these jokers in my head into one guy w/suspenders frustrated with his suboptimal coffee experience.
The Verge is far and away the best of a terrible lot, but even then the writing isn't a patch on even Wired in its heyday.
― stet, Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:13 (5 days ago) Permalink
i just totally did something at a place and forgot to check in on foursquare
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:25 (5 days ago) Permalink
eugh
― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:47 (5 days ago) Permalink
http://brooksreview.net/2013/05/fucking-dogs/
― markers, Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:44 (3 days ago) Permalink
tbh I also don't like dogs, but I don't blog about it on a blog people have to pay for
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:48 (3 days ago) Permalink
Gruber and his ilk's smug self-satisfaction and complete lack of self-awareness make me more guilty about using Apple products than basically anything else.
Also, I hope Ben Brooks gets mobbed by dogs everyday for the rest of his life.
― avant-sarsgaard (litel), Saturday, 18 May 2013 08:46 (3 days ago) Permalink
excited to see gruber cover the tax stuff with the diligence he covered foxconn
― caek, Monday, 20 May 2013 22:23 (Yesterday) Permalink
You mean "here's Apple's opening statement?"
― schwantz, Monday, 20 May 2013 22:52 (Yesterday) Permalink
yes, it's "an interesting read"
― caek, Monday, 20 May 2013 23:19 (Yesterday) Permalink