The best case scenario for Google is that Eric Schmidt, in his new role as chairman, has turned into a loose cannon who should just shut the fuck up.
this sentence truly serves as a beacon, a yardstick for good and reasoned writing
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Thursday, 12 January 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of bullshit, i found this quote from sub-gruber read&truster to be particularly terrible writing:
It’s hard to breathe during this 20-minute interview of David Steel, Executive Vice President of Strategy for Samsung North America due to all the bullshit in the air.
― pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 January 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
people who call bullshit on everything all the time are the worst
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
They will never be short of work. Ah hurr hurr.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 13 January 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
Don't ever accuse Gruber of not posting bad news about Apple five days after the rest of the internet. He's risking his iPhone 5 review unit and who wouldn't want him to lose out on such a major blogging exclusive?
― James Mitchell, Friday, 13 January 2012 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
@marco's beautiful, simple solution to the iPhone's mute-switch behavior:
The user told the iPhone to make noise by either scheduling an alarm or initiating an obviously noise-playing feature in an app.The user also told the iPhone to be silent with the switch on the side.The user has issued conflicting commands, and the iPhone can’t obey both.It’s a typical design problem: it can’t be heavy and light and big and small. Neither decision will satisfy everyone all the time or cover every edge case: if Apple implemented Mute in Ihnatko’s preferred way, millions of people would be just as irritated when their scheduled alarms didn’t wake them up.When implementing the Mute switch, Apple had to decide which of a user’s conflicting commands to obey, and they chose the behavior that they believed would make sense to the most people in the most situations.That’s good design.
The user also told the iPhone to be silent with the switch on the side.
The user has issued conflicting commands, and the iPhone can’t obey both.
It’s a typical design problem: it can’t be heavy and light and big and small. Neither decision will satisfy everyone all the time or cover every edge case: if Apple implemented Mute in Ihnatko’s preferred way, millions of people would be just as irritated when their scheduled alarms didn’t wake them up.
When implementing the Mute switch, Apple had to decide which of a user’s conflicting commands to obey, and they chose the behavior that they believed would make sense to the most people in the most situations.
That’s good design.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 15 January 2012 10:57 (twelve years ago) link
Nah Gruber is right, that's mish. Most of the time when I switch to mute i'm not even looking at at the screen. An alarm that can be accidentally set to silent mode is stupid.
I'm not sure I believe Mr "my alarm accidentally got set for the middle of the show".
― stet, Sunday, 15 January 2012 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
apparently he had just been given that phone from his work a day before or something? so he probably thought mute meant mute
― markers, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
which apparently it doesn't on the iphone
― markers, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
seems dumb to me but i haven't thought it through really
this is the worst debate in the world and if you have an opinion about it then you are hurting the blogosphere
― caek, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol jokes
― caek, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/cameron
What do you mean? There are pages upon pages of blog posts on iPhone mute behavior to spend hours and hours reading & trusting:
http://www.marco.org/2012/01/14/mutehttp://daringfireball.net/2012/01/iphone_mute_switch_designhttp://52tiger.net/on-the-behavior-of-the-iphone-mute-switch-ringing-vs-tone-alerts-and-overall-iphone-sound-design/http://www.biancolo.com/articles/bad-ui-stops-symphonyhttp://brooksreview.net/2012/01/the-picture-says-it-all/http://ihnatko.com/2012/01/14/daring-fireball-on-the-behavior-of-the-iphone-mute-switch/http://blog.erikphansen.com/mute-switch-madness
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
oh lord
― markers, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon colopohon
should've checked to see if i were spelling the word correctly before repeating it a million times, but oh well
― markers, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
I replaced my colopohon (so 2005) with an Instapaper reading list.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
rip
― markers, Sunday, 15 January 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
i use the Mute Switch Debate as a yardstick
― stet, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
i use it as a dick beacon
― caek, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
i read u, but i don't know if i trust u
― markers, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
I leave my phone on mute overnight but set an alarm for the morning to wake up? Seems pretty common.
― mh, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
i don't have an iphone, but i live my phone on all night because i assume if someone's gonna call me really late it's an emergency and if it's not i can just tell them they're a fucking idiot
― markers, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
You have a phone that's not going to receive push notifications and email all night though, right?
― mh, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i have some lg flip phone piece of shit from 2009. i'm sure what i do wouldn't work for everyone, but it works for me. when i get an iphone i'll probably do the same thing i do now, except i'll also shut off most of the push notifications and other annoying shit
― markers, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
i also shut sms off over two years ago, so i don't really have that to worry about -- no more 3 am text messages from friends who are in a bar in another country! rip
― markers, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
why did you shut off sms
― dayo, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
imo if you have enough time to post on ilx then you don't really need push notifications enabled
― caek, Sunday, 15 January 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
phones are these things you do web browsing on and check apps and send text messages on, and very rarely use the antiquated "voice call" feature
― mh, Sunday, 15 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― markers, Sunday, 15 January 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
i do own an ipod touch tbh
http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/01/22/rim-co-ceos-to-step-down/
― markers, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not sure you understand this thread
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://grab.by/cBWF
― caek, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
beyond parody
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/4C1af.png
― ☂ʊηε✏ƴ@яḓṧ, ẘ♄øк☤ʟʟ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
In December, however, seven months after the blast that killed Mr. Lai, another iPad factory exploded, this one in Shanghai. Once again, aluminum dust was the cause, according to interviews and Apple’s most recent supplier responsibility report. That blast injured 59 workers, with 23 hospitalized. “It is gross negligence, after an explosion occurs, not to realize that every factory should be inspected,” said Nicholas Ashford, the occupational safety expert, who is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “If it were terribly difficult to deal with aluminum dust, I would understand. But do you know how easy dust is to control? It’s called ventilation. We solved this problem over a century ago.”
“It is gross negligence, after an explosion occurs, not to realize that every factory should be inspected,” said Nicholas Ashford, the occupational safety expert, who is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “If it were terribly difficult to deal with aluminum dust, I would understand. But do you know how easy dust is to control? It’s called ventilation. We solved this problem over a century ago.”
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
4:00 – 4:50 PM: The State of AppleMacworld’s Jason Snell, Andy Ihnatko, and John Gruber discuss where the new, Tim Cook-led Apple will go in 2012 and beyond.
Macworld’s Jason Snell, Andy Ihnatko, and John Gruber discuss where the new, Tim Cook-led Apple will go in 2012 and beyond.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
Macworld? is that like the WWDC but also gay?
― ☂⋒ﬡᙓ-૪ᗩᖇᖙᔕ - ᙡ ᖺ ᗝ Ḱ ᓰ ᒪ ᒪ (diamonddave85), Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
he's on http://www.macworld.com/
― markers, Friday, 27 January 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
p bad so far
― markers, Friday, 27 January 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
Think @marco tried explaining this to Siri and his iPhone blew up.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 30 January 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
Marco disagreed with Ben Brooks the other day. Having read, can I now trust? Why are there no yardsticks for this sort of thing?
― stet, Monday, 30 January 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
the internet is beaconless, rip, so inelegant
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 January 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
I tried searcing Duckduckgo for beacons and yardsticks, and it found nothing.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 30 January 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
lol braces http://brooksreview.net/colophon/
― stet, Monday, 30 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
More like the Brooks Brother Review amirite?
"I own stock in UPS, Microsoft, Abercrombie & Fitch, Oracle."
― James Mitchell, Monday, 30 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
*Brothers*
Great ad on his site too: "This week's sponsor is Déjà Vu - Your visual memory. An iPhone app to snap pictures of things you want to remember."
― James Mitchell, Monday, 30 January 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link