indefensible: john gruber

It's possible to specify a context sensitive language using a formal grammar. In fact, it's a useful exercise because the grammar emphasizes the ambiguities of the underlying language. It's also possible to reduce a language into a context-free grammar by assuming a modifying lexical analysis pass (e.g. many programming languages, but notably white space sensitive languages like Haskell or Python). Semicolon insertion is a common technique.

Heh I stand outgunned.

can u explain that to someone who like knows jquery

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/509410066857201664

i love @pinboard

srsly

when he clowns the people who bought delicious I giggle

the youtube dudes, right? chad hurley and whoever?

idk man but I googled this
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/delicious

pharrell? xp

i think that's it

oh god dude is already talking like he's a watch expert

its too bad he didnt have any time to get into watches and now he just has to think the apple watch is the best

A few days into testing the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, I accidentally left my personal iPhone 5S on a desk next to the iPhone 6 Plus. While my back was turned, the Plus tried to eat my 5S. It’s a monster.

cant tell if serious..

I kid, but only sort of.

oh

Only sort of kidding that his demo phone is an actual living breathing monster

now im scared, great

It’s been a while since I used a rounded iPhone. It’s nice. With the iPhone 6, I’ve found myself reverting to a habit I formed back in 2007 with the original iPhone: slowly spinning it around in my hand, over and over, side over side, like one of those “worry stones” that were popular back in the 1990s. It just feels nice in your hand. (The 6 Plus is too big for me to do this with.)

Ah, but then there’s The Bulge. Both iPhone 6 models have a camera lens that protrudes from the back of the phone. It’s noticeable, and, let’s face it, a little gross. But this was foreseeable given that the presciently-designed iPod Touch from two years ago had one too. (The iPod Touch is just 6.1mm thick, thinner even than the iPhone 6.) This is a conflict with the laws of physics: image quality improves when the lens is further away from the sensor (which allows for physically larger sensors), but devices feel better in hand and weigh less when they are thinner. Apple’s only options for the iPhone 6:

Use a camera with worse optics that would sit flush with the rest of the case.

Make the entirely device thicker to sit flush with the camera lens.

Allow the camera lens to protrude from the back of the camera.

The first choice is unacceptable. Image quality is too important to allow it to suffer — and Apple certainly couldn’t allow image quality on the iPhone 6 to be worse than on the 5S. So the choice was between #2 and #3, and as a fan of smaller thinner devices, I can’t say I disagree with Apple’s decision to go with #3. It’s reasonable to argue that the iPhone 6 would have been better if Apple had gone with #2 (and filled the additional volume with a slightly thicker battery), but that’s not really Apple-like.

omg why didnt they do this drives me fn nuts mane

they did it to drive you nuts iirc

They could have made the camera thinner if they went super wide angle, and then used post processing to fix the image / crop

omg why didnt they do this drives me fn nuts mane

― lag∞n, Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:21 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know!!

They could have made the camera thinner if they went super wide angle, and then used post processing to fix the image / crop

― 龜, Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:33 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jony ive, browsing ilx, facepalms

cropping does not have the same effect as a longer lens tho, iphone lens already way too fn wide imho impossible to take pictures of anything far away

There are probably too many DSLR purist freaks on the design team to ever go for a flat solution tho

the watch post...

what kind of monster is he?

I seriously had a dream this morning that he posted something with some vaguely rape-apologist elements and then Jason Kottke called him out on it, so I should probably get better dreams and spend less time thinking about John Gruber.

lmao otm

that is an incredible internet dream tho

$80 for a steel watch band is a “hefty price”. That’s adorable.

fuck you, basically

Well, if you're pulling down something like $260k a year mainly posting links and the occasional longform article, $80 is adorable.

this http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/09/19/iphones-6-line

made me think of this http://www.theonion.com/articles/william-safire-orders-two-whoppers-junior,3351/

lmao

"thoughts on" is not necessarily a good way to start a title. this is an apple blogger tic, and yes i know abt jobs, obv

also: one word titles like matt gemmell's "portable" or w/e

that "iphones 6" shit is also ridic

if you have to stick with the super simple format, at least go with "iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus" or something

"layer tennis"

hah i was just looking at that

didn't read past the first sentence of what I presume is saccharine nonsense about Derek Jeter

i don't know if i finished it, but i didn't think it was bad at all

http://i.imgur.com/I2DMUWL.png

sounds very fun

http://blog.fawny.org/2014/10/10/gruberbucks/

http://i.imgur.com/IdaRhNv.png

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/10/09/ive-xiaomi

pretty good gruberzing here

I have a coworker with one of those t-shirts :/

when they say something dumb in a meeting and are wearing the shirt you shd tell them youre filing it to claim chowder

hahahaha

lol

or just knock em out with one punch and when someone tries to ask them to explain their comment you can say "UPDATE: fireballed"

lol

http://instagram.com/p/NXX_dDvVjn/