i'll see if i can find a link for slock so he odesn't need to take any time away from youtube― markers, Thursday, March 27, 2014 9:41 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
― markers, Thursday, March 27, 2014 9:41 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
Oh shit :0
― 龜, Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:48 (ten years ago) link
i think that was meant to be more about his laziness than anything else?
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:49 (ten years ago) link
and the tone was just returning the volley. anyway if i'm being an apple defender here ok but i'm not even sure i am really but who knows
i don't think apple is fucked
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:50 (ten years ago) link
assuming that we would know the significance of that post in relation to apple historythat we would know what 9to5 mac is, probably a blog or something?that we want to go to some other site to read about what is probably a passing anecdote
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:52 (ten years ago) link
well the first thing was just in the news, it's not old. i'm surprised you're not aware of the second, at least due to mark gurman's scoops, but i guess i could be super down the rabbit hole here. lastly, you guys do spend a lot of time talking about fedoras and other useless shit, so i'm sorry you wouldn't want to spend two seconds on this
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:54 (ten years ago) link
and yes, this also qualifies as useless shit.
anyway, we're friends, lets not fight
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:55 (ten years ago) link
I have read a lot of random apple stuff in my day but I have no idea who mark gurman is, as far as data points go
I'd say that crafting a cool post tying that anecdote in would be neat!
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:56 (ten years ago) link
he broke the healthbook stuff the other week and has a lot of other apple scoops. sorry, i guess i really *am* down in a rabbit hole here, even in respect to you guys. i should probably spend less time following the minutae on twitter and elsewhere, but for now and the past couple years i really have, at the expense of other interests too
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:58 (ten years ago) link
i read gil amelio's memoir last year ffs
all im saying markers is "go look up a blog post" is a bad look, why not just post a link to it if you really think its that interesting
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 27 March 2014 13:25 (ten years ago) link
i'm not sure it is, but here you go: http://9to5mac.com/2014/03/19/eddy-cue-throws-a-pen-at-haunted-empires-yukari-kanes-accuracy-says-story-isnt-true/
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
forgive my mortal transgression of not linking.
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
now i wish you hadnt
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 27 March 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
next time i won't
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
it's good to be back
I skipped that link the first time tbh because I assumed it was about eddy cue and the pencil. But it was not and was interesting
― stet, Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
gonna put that picture itt
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
got distracted for a moment, but
http://i.imgur.com/JCCTJyi.jpg
from macrumors
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
shit look at that thing
Wait, what's that? Were they working ON IPHONE in G3 days?
― stet, Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
no i think it started in 2005. they were trying to mimic the speed of what the phone hardware would be maybe? something like that? it says in the wsj somewhere
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
for some reason that reminds me of Jobs using OpenStep on a Thinkpad when he returned to Apple because he thought their laptops were garbage
maybe a fierce G4 (G5?) hater was on the iPhone team
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Thursday, 27 March 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
I still shed a tear for all those children who were laid off from their jobs in the Motorola factory in 2006. You couldn't meet a stauncher group of PowerPC/OS 9 nationalists.
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 27 March 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
good link coming in
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Azure/Learn-how-Vesper-built-offline-sync-using-Azure-Mobile-Services-
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
watch it
at least a little
so basically they needed an app cloud service. they don't mention any built-in synching merge tools, so presumably they made their own or used some other off-the-shelf library. from the code shown, it seems like there's minimal platform-specific code going on (it looked like javascript from what I watched) so it remains pretty portable.
IMO they're getting a promo deal backed by the video, and if their app gets large enough that they need to reevaluate their needs they could jump to any other cloud platform in a heartbeat
idk if this is apple dropping the ball on iCloud sync (which they have) as much as people not wanting to be locked in, in case they want multiple platforms for their app.
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
i'm not sure why they chose this really. br3nt s1mmons does leave in seattle.
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 03:12 (nine years ago) link
he's the one who knew stuff about azure for some reason i think.
ugh, if you click that link make sure you manually add the "-" to the end of the url or you won't get the video
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
at least i didn't
there are limited app cloud options, really
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 03:34 (nine years ago) link
And is a worthy partner for Gruber. Christ, his dev blog is so painful to read I had to unsubscribe. Endless "do my homework for me", obvious mining of dead-ends, NIH all over the place, unsubstantiated resistance to the right solutions and manic over-engineering. Explains a lot about why NNW performance was so awful, and definitely explains the horrific state of its nib files.
― stet, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
lol
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
you've brought actual developers with axes to grind in on this now, markers
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
damn true
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
as I said to someone recently, no one hates software developers more than other developers. and if you don't, then you're probably part of the problem.
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
the funny thing about talking about software dev and vesper is that i actually wrote a notes app for the ti 83 plus back in the day
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
you can store ten strings on it. i stored all the notes as a series of numbers in a matrix instead of storing them in the strings.
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
you convert each number back to a character, and each character back into a number, to go from what's stored to what's displayed. something like that.
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
p.s. ticalc.org existed long before the app store did
your notes application was probably better implemented than vesper
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
too bad you can't make a living off writing shit in ti basic
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/pschiller/favorites
― markers, Friday, 18 April 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 18 April 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
is it just me or has grubby been a lot more friendly towards micro$hit since his azure coming out video
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 18 April 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
microsoft is pretty clearly doing better work as of late imo
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 April 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link