indefensible: john gruber

asked him if he really used a loupe (he did)

also the episode has a bunch of random people on it like merlin mann, scott simpson, his wife, blah blah

I actually tried to listen to to it yesterday. I got to the 'comedian' and had to shut it off. Surprised I made it that far.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/07/09/maximum-viable-products

he sure does admire expensive stuff for being expensive

i feel like there's this submeme of 'don't price your products too cheaply' going around among entrepreneuer types

i absolutely get that line of thinking, at least from the point of view developer.

but gruber is not a dev. he's a consumer/critic and he seems to be actively critical of inexpensive stuff simply because it's inexpensive.

i suppose that's fine when you are a cryptoconservative pulling in six figures.

dude he wants to pimp the meme of "it's okay to set your prices high" because he IS in the fucking development game. He doesn't want to lose money. And BTW his fucking app is overpriced and wouldn't make a dent in the world if it wasn't him pimping it. It's a classic solution looking for a problem, window dressing looking for a fucking window.

I don't find him conservative at all, at least judging from his overtly political posts.

"maximal apps" are nothing more than vanity projects or, as the fucking moron David Morin says, "bespoke" apps where devs jerk off into code, self-promote it as "disruptive", and then bask in the glory of the five other devs who want to pay $5.99 for five seconds of geek validation.

I would love to see a list of Gruber's paid consulting gigs related to typography.

putting this in here

http://www.marco.org/bugshot

that icon is gross

eh i don't think it's too bad

charging for it is gross

icon looks like two chairs doin it

to the sound of phish, no doubt

maximals, roll out!

blasting some Phish and coding real hard here

marco and gruber are repping hard for this stratechery guy.
is he also tainted by their reps, or is he solid dude?

jesus

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/07/23/dubai-case

hey I found this one account that contradicts every other account in mainstream news and casts doubt on a woman's story of sexual assault

oh wait, this single article is basically a press release by the government that oppressed her? my bad.

congratulations to the tories

i was just listening to the talk show

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/360905880075636736

pvmic

Washington doesn’t want to see Apple fail; they want Apple to continue making massive profits. They just want a bigger slice of those juicy profits kicked back.

Translation: I am as high as a kite.

that seems ... totally inarguable?

actually forget it

http://i.imgur.com/yV6VYNP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RMQmn2I.jpg

there hasn't been a talk show in too long but i guess he was/is on vacation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/textlad/7983484366/

seriously the casual polo shirt or hoodie seems much more a valley affectation than just wearing a reasonable shirt eventually

forestell always did look a bit radioshack for apple

I think Sir Jony might actually be in his PJs there.

seriously the casual polo shirt or hoodie seems much more a valley affectation than just wearing a reasonable shirt eventually

if you live in SF having a zip-up sweater-type thing is really handy. usually those end up being hoodies. i kinda hate hoodies but i have two.

lol be serious people that rich can afford knitwear like they do everywhere else the weather is sometimes in the 60s. it has nothing to do with the climate.

you can tell ive's hoody is euro-nice and not googlebus wear

googlebus?

the bus google engineers ride to work, presumably

apples famous for wearing jeans cause they so raw

forestell always did look a bit radioshack for apple

good call

oh man, I met up with a friend when I was in SF and since I'd just been wandering around all day I was wearing a hoodie and felt way overdressed since she'd just got off work. In retrospect, it was near the financial district so people probably weren't thinking "ugh, slob" they were probably thinking "ugh, those damn tech people"

felt way _underdressed_ that is

are you guys seriously mad that rich people arent dressing snootily enough

pat smear and taylor hawkins are dressed like they're ready to do server backups

More that the SF clothing aesthetic is to look frumpy even if you're hailed as a paragon of industrial design.

i am furious at these rich people for letting the side down

lol at the impeccable reading comprehension displayed in part 2 of this http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/18/barry-randall.

also lol at him implying he understands processor architecture

hey he wrote some perl scripts once

ok, I looked it up and he apparently has a computer science degree! this actually explains why he knows everything.

i have tweets for y'all

few minutes