I, Too, Love Amy Jane
― radiant silverfish (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
fuckin guy lovin his fuckin wife...
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder if she checks the site everyday or maybe he had to send her a link
― radiant silverfish (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
if she's anything like dh she's an rss/instapaper kinda lady. inbox zero. no time to type in urls
― radiant silverfish (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
has he actually written anything longer than glib link commentary? guess he's been busy with long form claim chowder : (
Saving it all up to complain about NeXT not being given its due, it looks like!
― carson dial, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
His wife's twitter account is many times more entertaining than his own.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 06:17 (twelve years ago) link
You can get fired up that way, and see my criticism here as condemning Isaacson’s book as total shit, zero stars. That would be a mistake. Steve Jobs is not literature, but it is a good book, but alas with several holes and egregious errors.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 08:01 (twelve years ago) link
um, that piece is probably the best thing he's written in a year or two.
― caek, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
Except his whole premise of "Steve Jobs thought software is more important than hardware" is completely a total shit, zero stars Jobsian-style binary view.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:50 (twelve years ago) link
and "Apple is an experience company" made me boak, versus something like "Apple is a product company" which is the truth
― stet, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
like, made me think of Apple iBalloon Rides With Your Fiancee
― stet, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:20 (twelve years ago) link
Apple uses experiences to sell products, as any Mad Men watcher could tell you.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
that's a diff thing from being an experience company, tho
― stet, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
"apple is an experience company" is his turgid writing style, yes.
but i am a good-faith zinger, and that was a good piece.
― caek, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
basically slocki otm
Agreed. Was def a way better demolition of the Isaacson book than Siracusa managed.
I want to put NextSTEP on my old Thinkpad now, except the guy who installed it for Jobs says it was a total nightmare http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2209
― stet, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
the siracusa thing was just a long, boring list of tiny errors and a couple of unsupported larger, vague arguments
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
i recently tried installing OPENSTEP in a VM and couldn't get past the driver selection stuff ):
― radiant silverfish (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
lol this guy has a hard time enjoying himself, lil uptight http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/15/ios-86
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
As soon as Schiller told me the name, I silently cursed myself for not having predicted it. Apple is a company of patterns. iPhone 3G, followed by a same-form-factor-but-faster 3GS; iPhone 4 followed by a same-form-factor-but-faster 4S. Leopard followed by Snow Leopard; so, of course: Lion followed by Mountain Lion.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder immediately about that “now”. I don’t press, because I find the question that immediately sprang to mind uncomfortable. And some things remain unchanged: Apple executives explain what they want to explain, and they explain nothing more.
this guy is v strange
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
I’ve been using Mountain Lion for a week, preinstalled on a MacBook Air loaned to me by Apple.
― radiant silverfish (diamonddave85), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
oh my god
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
THIS is your FAVORITE FEATURE??
My favorite Mountain Lion feature, though, is one that hardly even has a visible interface. Apple is calling it “Gatekeeper”. It’s a system whereby developers can sign up for free-of-charge Apple developer IDs which they can then use to cryptographically sign their applications. If an app is found to be malware, Apple can revoke that developer’s certificate, rendering the app (along with any others from the same developer) inert on any Mac where it’s been installed. In effect, it offers all the security benefits of the App Store, except for the process of approving apps by Apple. Users have three choices which type of apps can run on Mountain Lion:* Only those from the App Store* Only those from the App Store or which are signed by a developer ID* Any app, whether signed or unsignedThe default for this setting is, I say, exactly right: the one in the middle, disallowing only unsigned apps. This default setting benefits users by increasing practical security, and also benefits developers, preserving the freedom to ship whatever software they want for the Mac, with no approval process.
* Only those from the App Store* Only those from the App Store or which are signed by a developer ID* Any app, whether signed or unsigned
The default for this setting is, I say, exactly right: the one in the middle, disallowing only unsigned apps. This default setting benefits users by increasing practical security, and also benefits developers, preserving the freedom to ship whatever software they want for the Mac, with no approval process.
― radiant silverfish (diamonddave85), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
Sadly, the punning possibilities of 'mac-gruber' have only just now suggested themselves to me, when surely that meme wave was beaten into the ground by now.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
loool
― caek, Thursday, 16 February 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
software signing is actually not a terrible idea; in fact many linux distributions have cryptographically signed packages using keys that are signed by the distributors. And groobs is on point with his hope that package-signing will make it onto iOS as the platform opens up.
All the work I do on my mac is in the terminal or a web browser anyway so new OS X features rarely mean much to me.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, 16 February 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
me too. the last time i upgraded OS X for some reason other than "it came with the new computer" was 10.4.
― caek, Thursday, 16 February 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
And groobs is on point with his hope that package-signing will make it onto iOS as the platform opens up.
I really, really hope that transpires
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 16 February 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
I knew the Dow was imprecise and rather arbitrary compared to something like the S&P 500, but the more I learn about the Dow the more nonsensical I realize it is.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 20 February 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
find a new zing james
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
found one
https://twitter.com/#!/totallyslutsky/status/171666559666888705
― caek, Monday, 20 February 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
:D
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 20 February 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/jdalrymple/status/170699109177634816
― markers, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/gruber/status/172054760323690497
― markers, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
o dammmn
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
a signpost in life
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
he linked to The Oatmeal today, pretty indefensible imo
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
ppl on the internet hate everything eh
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
If your interested in a deep, thoughtful take on the problems Mac developers are running into with sandboxing...
― o _o⃑ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
2008-2010: I remember when it was unique to see people using a Mac. I remember when people thought my having an iPhone was unique..
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 08:19 (twelve years ago) link
Don't even get the point of writing that other than as a beacon, a yardstick for the guy's impeccable taste.
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
/tech-thoughts/
― lukas, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
My Thoughts About Purple Suspenders Over the Years
― ಠ﹏ಠ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
1990-Writing this post: Was I ever capable of dressing myself?
― ಠ﹏ಠ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Best part about his site: the "in partnership with mediatemple" graphic. mediatemple hosts a number of tech/design sites for free, and those sites indicate that somewhere, usually in the footer. This guy is paying for their cheapest plan and still has a big old logo conspicuously displayed at the top of the page.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
^ actual good zinging
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I have to hand it to mediatemple, their sponsorship has paid off so well that the cargo cult thinks they're making the next hot site just by putting the logo on the side, even if they're still paying for that "privilege"
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
in partnership with angelfire
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link