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
You are trying to view American McCarver on a shitty browser. Won't work.
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
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.
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
lol i like both of them
― markers, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's a beautiful, simple and clean way of moving your fat fingers along the edge of the touchpad.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Elegant" is the term I hate most from the doucherati.
― stet, Thursday, 21 July 2011 17:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
helvetigant
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
One of my friends followed Marco on Ping for some reason. Marco's musical tastes are something to behold.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lotta Phish, I guess.
― stet, Thursday, 21 July 2011 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
john gruber, newspaper pundit:
Just look at how uncluttered the print edition of The Times is, and how it’s designed to emphasize what is important.http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/27/news-site-design
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/27/news-site-design
so uncluttered.
― joe, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
It would be much more simpler and eleganter if they made an app to display one story at a time and enabled users to three-finger swipe between pages, and they should hand over all their ad revenue to Apple for enabling such simpleness and eleganticity.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am trying to find a way to explain how the print version isn't really cluttered, but it's really the textbook definition of clutter
― mh, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
When you get paid to say things, it's hard to stop saying things.
― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
typeset nytimes in helvetica
― ILX Point Never (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
the essence of good taste
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
I dig the nytimes chrome app
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
the one thing that the chrome app and the ipad app do that the website does not is give me a one or two sentence blurb on what the article is about. no need to decipher what an article called 'Skin Deep: Someone Just Like Me Said, ‘Buy It’' is about
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 01:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
found it p janky when i tried it a while ago
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe they dejanked it
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok yeah its def p diff than before, but w/e not enough linx per page, needs more clutter
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
thats cool all the diff views it gives you tho
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol @ their names
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
i prefer 'doric'
youre a doric
i think ur a doric
― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
sorry but i don't have time for people who dislike him
― markers, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:59 (3 days ago) Permalink
https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/336863716408705024
eh, I've said hyperbolic stuff on twitter too
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:59 (3 days ago) Permalink
siracusa's OS X writeups for Ars Technica obviously all classic, I just wanted to dump some mock rage on the internet
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:00 (3 days ago) Permalink
ya siracusa is one of the better tech writers for sure i just thought that tweet was funny
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:05 (3 days ago) Permalink
― markers, Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i just want to dwell for a moment on what an amazing sentence this is
*dwells* d(-_-)b
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 02:48 (3 days ago) Permalink