eh, fair enough.
The entertaining bit is that if you set up a gmail account on an iPhone, it doesn't use gmail's exchange/push server by default so the app currently works with gmail the same way Apple's mail client does, by default. /Gruber
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I always wonder if that is Apple's middle finger at Google somehow.
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
eh, I think it's more the fact that Google still doesn't show it in their setup directions that clearly! You only get the directions on the mobile site, and there under "Google Sync," not under email setup. I think it's officially supported and non-beta, but maybe that's not what they tell Apple?
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Imagine how frustrating this situation must be for monologists who do value the truth, who are performing true journalism.
err is journalism + stage performance a thing?
― grimes - (the elder scrolls iv:) oblivion (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
fox news, only they're about as truthy as mike daisey
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
imagine how frustrating it must be for fox news
― grimes - (the elder scrolls iv:) oblivion (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
right, it's frustrating for fox news like it is mike daisy.
Same package of entertainment.
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
*points to twitter*
― markers, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
SUNDAY CRAZINESS
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/03/30/readability
― markers, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UiU5y.png
― diamonddave85, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
cf. this link to an article about human beings being abused
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/03/29/fla-foxconn
vs. this lengthy article about journalism
http://daringfireball.net/2012/03/baby_from_the_bath_water
i guess it's to be expected from a guy with a colophon and a house style, and maybe he honestly doesn't have much to add, but the dude is sleeping on the major apple story of a generations. i mean this post has more commentary than his post about the abc story:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/03/29/bezos
― caek, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://twitter.com/gruber/statuses/186571502550917120
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw I only use Readability when a page is so choked with ads and carousels and other dumb shit that it's actually impossible to read
― TURPS-DEFCON1.jpg (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
i use readability a lot when a page is laid out in such a way that its hard to read, p sweet setup, dont use the whole read later aspect tho, i just keep a lot of tabs open
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
btw i will now admit that i find it kinda entertaining how gruber gets legitimately outraged and calls people names
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
oh and in Reeder when the source refuses to provide the full article via rss xxp
― TURPS-DEFCON1.jpg (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
btw gruber must acknowledge that when apple built readability support into safari they became scumbags by extension
― TURPS-DEFCON1.jpg (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Readability is awesome and has almost supplanted my use of Instapaper. The linking thing, eh, probably a misstep. The whole "they are taking money given in publishers' names" is completely bullshit afaik because they take money, and offer publishers the opportunity to have some of that money, but they don't say "this money is definitely going to the publishers."
Lots of self-righteous anger going on, imo.
― mh, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
how do u ppl use readability?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
On longer-form articles I run across either while browsing twitter or just the web or ilx or whatever I'll add them to Readability, then sit at home after work and read the articles while I'm eating lunch or having a beer after work on my iPhone or iPad.
― mh, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
i push the back quote button and it magically reformats a website
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
all you posters sleeping on my post about the major "indefensible: john gruber" story of a generations
― caek, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
it was a good post
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
"Badass."
― caek, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
"Filed for future claim chowder."
"Agreed."
― caek, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
"Hilarious."
caek, did you read the transcript of the interview with the FLA president linked from the ABC news article? It kind of twists the light the report is read in, for me, in that he paints the factory in an average-to-positive light for China and there are a number of issues with worker perception where management hasn't communicated either the right regulatory materials or detailed the safety mechanisms already in place.
I think Gruber's dropping it because he's a lazy ass and doesn't really want to contrast how factories operate in multiple countries. Most people don't, but as a beacon he's kind of dropping the ball, sure.
― mh, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/BenjaminBrooks/status/189404356888629249
― markers, Monday, 9 April 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
and here I thought that dude looked like a mid-80s stereotype of a "professional" in his picture, it turns out he thinks he's in Ferris Bueller
― mh, Monday, 9 April 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
what is with these people and describing themselves as 'raconteurs'?:
http://i.imgur.com/FKqUv.png
― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
if you took the bio lines and the twitter descriptions of these dudes you're going to find a lot of interesting words like that
to my shame I think I have a social network profile somewhere that probably still says "flâneur." urgh
― mh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
u can tell by his bio line what a great storyteller he is
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
The Yankees have numerous rivals. The Red Sox (division). The Mets (cross-town). The Dodgers (11 World Series matchups). But these Yankees — this particular squad — have a bigger rival. Father Time.
Father Time??? r u srs
Time’s effects, even against Rivera — the most graceful and elegant ballplayer I’ve ever seen, the closest thing in sports to an ageless wonder — are ignominious. The Yankees often win, but in the end, time always wins — the one opponent against which even the Yankees will forever be underdogs. To struggle against time is to struggle against the inevitable. We all know you can’t beat time, but the joy of these aging Yankees is that sometimes you can get lucky and race ahead of it for a while. But now this.
What the fuck, what is the point of this, why not just post that insipid poem about the One Great Scorer
― raw feel vegan (silby), Friday, 4 May 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
~time always wins ~ thinks abt it
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 May 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
Boom, done.
― diamonddave85, Friday, 4 May 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
"terrific"
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/15/joe-smith-paper-towel
― caek, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
lmao after seeing that i was going to start a thread about TED talks that treat you like a fucking child
― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
see also: How To Tie Your Shoes
95% of ted stuff is such glib stupid bullshit, but this is like that lifehacker article about "how to hack your mashed potato for one recipe so that it feeds two people"
― caek, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
confession: i was charmed by paper towel dude
― stet, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
if everybody didn't get gas on 05/18/12 think of how big a message we'd send to those oil companies
― dayo, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
TED is crossing the territory into vince shlomo shamwow territory
― dayo, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
you followin me camera guy *dries hands with only one paper towel sheet*
― dayo, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3993649
― markers, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
i don't get it. what is this guy's shtick? he's like the internet-era's garrison keillor?
― Mordy, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
Combined with John Dvorak of PC Magazine
― mh, Saturday, 19 May 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/25/the-talk-show-002 can someone break down this podcast brouhaha for me?
― caek, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Web standards are important, and Daring Fireball adheres to them. Specifically, Daring Fireball’s HTML markup should validate as either HTML 5 or XHTML 4.01 Transitional
there is no such thing as XHTML 4.01 Transitional
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link