indefensible: john gruber

This Kubrick obsession of his is something else.

"A moment to savor"

I hate you stet.

I forget but I think I was coming here to mention something similar. Great minds.

Yes, they made a ton of money. By gouging us, basically. And we pay it!

Why not stop the dividends and pay your retail employees more or something.

because until publicly-held companies cease being held to pull the most profit possible, people will be paid the minimum amount the market demands

I wouldn't mind so much if they weren't increasing the iPhone prices and still skimping on memory. Some straight gouging, that.

Tim Cook is in the midst of a European tour. This photo from his tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum caught my eye. You can feel the solemnity.

And just think, he makes six figures writing this crapola.

Take a first generation iPhone. Now imagine if you could upgrade it to today’s A8 SoC. It’d be better than it was before, that’s for sure. But it’d still have a low-resolution non-retina display. It’d still be stuck with EDGE cellular networking. It’d still have a crappy camera that couldn’t even shoot video. Etc. The “computer” inside Apple Watch isn’t centrally important. Everything is important. The health sensors, the display, the battery, the Taptic Engine, the digital crown, the networking capabilities, everything.

This is bizarre. He doesn’t realize that a system-on-a-chip is a system-on-a-chip (e.g. “sensors” and “networking capabilities”).

lol

I mean, he's right for the display and sensors, but the "motion coprocessor" or whatever they have been selling it as would be part of that SoC for sure

Let's not confuse Grubes with someone who knows about computers, or what words mean

he wrote a famous perl script

Loool "taptic engine".

velocity engine >>>> taptic engine

he wrote a famous perl script

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, March 9, 2015 10:28 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ziiiiiing

http://i.imgur.com/kWcLqPo.png

http://i.imgur.com/cMYKp27.png

Bringing back a classic

10 years ago we ha

Bingo.

Woof

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/04/06/felons-apple-campus

could not the explanation for why this is “unusual” simply be that it’s more expensive to conduct background checks for every worker?

ok

lol i literally just sent him an email about that

doesn't often write something that dumb

included in my email was a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow haha oh jeez

lol fight the good fight, survive solely on claim chowder

this reminds me of something ive wondered about him for a while remember when there was that prototype iphone that gawker got a hold of and the cops got involved and some bloggers were speculating that apple pressured the police to investigate and he wrote this post that was all APPLE DOES NOT CONTROL THE POLICE U IDOTS DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HOW LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKS and then later it came out that the heads of a bunch of big tech firms had a direct line to this police task force that they lobbied to have set up and in fact apple did pressure the police to investigate

did he ever retract/comment on how he was wrong about that / did anyone do a sick ass claim chowder on him

all i know is he loves cops, martinis and the yankees

when you put it that way, he really is the worst

stanley kubrick, david foster wallce, and the rolling stones

i like how he picks one thing from each category and is all this is the best and it is the best because the people put infinite care into the details, to him everything is craft and he does not understand art at all

Hah I never realized that that might be the common thread linking his interests

Like how close is he to snapping and going Room 237 on all of us

geez he's even more insufferable when seen through that lens

rm 237 is way too imaginative for him hes more of a analyze each shot / equipment used / tell us why they were the perfect choice / never notice that the odd cant tell if hes joking tone is what animates kubricks films

david foster wallace is of course the singular writer of choice for guys like this who are looking for empirical proof that someone is the best artist

being a yankees fan not from new york is too perfect too

i like DFW

sure so do i

none of these things are necessarily bad, but if you are the guy who speaks only of liking these things you are bad

otm

since he's a Yankees fan from Philly probably means he's a DH apologist

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/04/06/the-obama-doctrine

this is such a baffling paraphrase of the quoted passage

Don't forget James Bond and the Dallas Cowboys

I read the new SJ bio. I think Gruber has a higher opinion of it than I do.

I thought it was better than the Isaacson one

I’m not sure I agree. If someone were to ask me which one to read, I’d recommend Steve Jobs. Becoming Steve Jobs had weird pacing problems, I think. The coverage of his early years didn’t seem nearly comprehensive enough. A lot of input from Avie and Jon later on in the book, but very little from Cue. Nothing from Schiller? Some from Cook, but perhaps not enough. The Iger stuff was good. Some repetition, perhaps a lot, from stuff I’d read before. Gruber said there’d be “sensational” stuff in the book, didn’t he? Besides the Tim Cook liver incident, there wasn’t anything that fit that description. We’re never going to get a perfect SJ book. Then again the market for the type of book I’d want would be very small. (Think: multi-volume shit.)

Unfortunately, I don’t think my destiny in life is to be SJ’s Robert Caro.

But someone better do more interviewing of the principals before they all die off and get some more books out there.

Where’s Phil Schiller’s take? Someone find Scott Forstall! Tell me more about what happened inside the company from, like, mid-1997 to mid-1998.

Gruber would think a description of what Jobs' farts smelled like was "sensational"