indefensible: john gruber

http://vimeo.com/36051004

``standing here at my standing desk''

Do workers in Foxconn factories who build products for Apple, Dell, HP, and others, work long hours at tedious tasks? Yes they do. Do they work for a fraction of what a worker in the US, Japan, or even Korea would? Yes they do?

Are they being enslaved? Clearly, they are not.

welp, glad we cleared that up!

its not slavery guys, keep downloading!

Since a grandmother at home dealt with child rearing and the household management, the workers didn’t seem stressed by the work requirements or complain.

keep downloading those iphones guys!

u need to read&trust bro

it is only by completing writing assignments that you can become a beacon, a yardstick

http://twitter.com/#!/Digeratii/status/165324320179109888/photo/1/large

"disappointing" is the professional's choice of words to describe slavery

what is this thread even about any more

reading&trusting

bullshit

beacons&yardsticks

kubrick&stones

steve&jobs

fugees&funyons

braces&suspenders

helvetica

colophons!

Marco & Path: not entirely sure what the difference is, except that we all read & trust @marco.

this is actually real talk:
http://www.marco.org/2012/02/04/fixing-previous-track

still have a lot of time for marco and his quietly unassuming proggy nerdiness

My favorite iPhone Twitter client is now available for the iPad too. I’ve been using for a few weeks and it’s just terrific. I love it.

every single time there's a big new ios app release, he makes sure to let everyone know that he's already been using it for weeks

hey guys did you know that I run a popular apple-centric blog, and that application developers find me to be a good target for promotional beta releases? now you do!

I remember being young and thinking that it'd be cool to be in a position where people would send me unreleased products to review. Then I got old and realized that beta testing other people's shit is horrible.

I love Tweetbot and iOs for the simplicity and beautifulness of the triple-tap gesture.

I wonder if Gruber is beta testing the version with quadruple-taps.

lol

I have two twitter apps on iPhone and I've been swapping between them with no clear fave. tweetbot 2.0 is kinda nice, though

i caved and got tweetbot when it went on sale and i like it so much more than any other one i've used, it's just like... enjoyable

i just wish the interface was more elegant

twittelator neue is pretty but is still a lil buggy and feature incomplete

not empathetic enough

"twittelator neue"

lol

can't believe you guys aren't using twilvetica!

nm it's not out yet

speaking of fonts: http://www.marco.org/2012/01/13/helvetica-kettle

shows disturbing signs of self awareness

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/photos/facepalm.gif

How did I miss Gruber posting this on his blog?

Oh, he didn't.

Hear that noise? That’s Violet Blue backpedalling… ★

oh jesus

The overreacting/woman-protection racket going on from Gruber's corner, masquerading as being in-touch with feminist concerns or being somehow more sympathetic, is gross. Someone found the name of a woman at the company and he ran with it, which is... what, all women are the same and you found the name of the one woman who worked for them, no way are there two of them?

There are, after all, too many millions of different models of woman. The development team should take a leaf out of Apple's book and slim down the product line offering to perhaps only two or three designs, each to fulfill the varying functions as needed by the user. This approach could soon see a rapid change in the market, with the adoption rate of women (in my suggested wifi, 8gb and 16gb variations) bringing women to the forefront of the post-PC world.

on the contrary, that woman is a beacon, a yardstick for all other women

http://www.70decibels.com/thepenaddict/

defensible in concept, jus guys bein nerdy baout pens

Almost before you could stop throwing up in your mouth at the idea of Michael Arrington accusing a Times journalist of being less than noble, Arrington’s partner at CrunchFund, MG Siegler, weighed in with his own attack in which he basically said Bilton is a nice guy who was either too lazy or too busy to do a good job. From this Siegler leaps off into a long diatribe about how most tech reporting is utter bullshit written by idiots who are all in a hurry to chase page views.

So: Path comes under fire, and straight away, the paid hit men – Arrington and his sidekick, Matty the Angry Chihuahua — spring into action to smear Bilton and try to discredit him.

I’ll give them this much. They’re good at what they do. Siegler especially is a nasty little ankle-biter who has developed some level of expertise in launching ad hominem attacks. He did one on me a while back. Then he did one on Josh Topolsky at The Verge.

Now it’s Nick Bilton’s turn.

Great response here from the man who's not afraid to type the word 'bullshit':

Looks like someone woke up from his nap of the last three years and is hungry. Sadly, I don’t have much food for him. I’ll keep this as brief as possible — and I promise this will be the last thing I ever say about Dan Lyons, as he’s clearly done.

Feel free not to read. Or read Michael Arrington’s post on the matter. He takes a higher road than I’m about to. I’m just sick of Lyons’ bullshit.

i have lost all ability to discern sarcasm in this thread. That wasn't a great response to me, just point-avoiding ad homs from a corrupt would-be hack.

Definitely sarcasm.

Big fan of http://mgsieglermeme.tumblr.com, though.

yeah anyone who defends siegler or arrington on this should be banned from ilx and thrown into the ocean