http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/cameron
asshole
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/green-day-rip-this-joint
yuppie
(PEDANTIC NOTE: House style here at Daring Fireball is to capitalize the second words in “iPod Mini” and “iPod Photo”, on the basis that they’re proper names, despite the fact that Apple’s marketing style is to use lowercase.)
you write a blog
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/08/campus
lol
― caek, Thursday, 9 June 2011 09:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Really beginning to think that Gruber needs his own thread, but I don't want to be the one to start it.
The latest Talk Show podcast, 35-ish minutes in. They're discussing the new iPad cover and he's practically on some kind of nerd interpretation of the old "Magnets? How the fuck do they work?" routine.
So I dare to visit his website today because of his verbal spastic attack, and one of the links is to a news story about the actress from The Wire with his heartfelt and not at all patronisingly semi-racist comment of "That’s a shame, but I’m glad to see her alive."
― James Mitchell, Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:36 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― caek, Thursday, 9 June 2011 09:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
he is a champ at this glib commencement speech bullshit
― caek, Thursday, 9 June 2011 09:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
arsehole
― It's not like we could go to Islam (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 June 2011 09:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
The rate card for his weekly sponsorship is now $5,500 -- $286,000 a year if it sells out at full price.http://www.businessinsider.com/daring-fireball-2011-3#ixzz1OltvorIZ
http://www.businessinsider.com/daring-fireball-2011-3#ixzz1OltvorIZ
not bad considering he just lazily throws up links most of the time.
― joe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 10:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Don't think of iCloud as the new MobileMe; think of iCloud as the new iTunes.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 9 June 2011 10:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
It also means iPhone users with iPhone-using friends and family no longer need SMS. I’ll cancel my SMS plan as soon as this ships.
I don’t think over-the-air backups or media syncing are coming soon. Wireless networking just isn’t fast enough. I’m not talking about Wi-Fi syncing over a local network to iTunes running on your Mac or PC — that may well be coming soon, but it wouldn’t solve the “how can these devices be ‘post-PC’ if they require a PC?” problem. We’re not talking about why the iPad needs a USB cable; we’re talking about why it needs a PC, period.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 9 June 2011 10:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha, i'd forgotten that. glad that there is a place to document gruber's predictions with the same mixture of obsessiveness and gloating that he reserves for everyone else.
― joe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 10:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
"we’re talking about why it needs a PC, period"
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 9 June 2011 10:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://daringfireball.net/2005/06/shuffling
The music on FM radio pretty much totally sucks
where did you read that? in a rolling stone you bought at an airport?
― caek, Thursday, 9 June 2011 10:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I’m biased, insofar as I consider Apple’s strategy more appealing than Google’s. But that’s because my interest lies in having the best possible user experience — the best-looking UIs, the lowest-latency responses, the smoothest animation, the most elegant designs. I share that interest with Apple. Google’s interest is in reaching the largest possible audience. That’s why I chose, at the outset of this paragraph, to say that I find Apple’s strategy “more appealing than”, rather than, say, “superior to”, Google’s. Apple’s strategy is correct for optimizing the quality of the user experience. Google’s strategy is correct for maximizing the number of users for its apps.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 16 June 2011 07:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha liking this thread no matter how redundant it is - keep em coming
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 16 June 2011 07:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Will be interesting to see how this pans out. Not sure what it means if it’s true that their initial target is Mobile Safari specifically, not mobile WebKit in general. My guess is that it’s simply a result of Mobile Safari being so far ahead of the Android WebKit engine.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 16 June 2011 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/17/apple-buy-phone-industry
yes, but it would be illegal under US, UK and EU law, so what's your point?
― caek, Friday, 17 June 2011 18:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Has he always been so mean-spirited? I don't remember him being so spiteful just a few years ago.
― lukas, Friday, 17 June 2011 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2011/06/17/come-on-gruber-youre-better-than-this
url a bit generous but otherwise, oh snap
― caek, Friday, 17 June 2011 22:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Gruber seems to be right about things a lot of the time, though that's easy when the people he disagrees with are prone to willfully ignoring the fact that Apple is making hundreds of millions of dollars doing what it's doing and is preposterously unlikely to make any sudden changes in strategy. Also less of a raging, belligerent asshole than you might expect.
― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also wrt the "buy whole cell phone industry" post that is sort of following up on an earlier link about how Apple could easily have enough cash in a few years to take itself private. That is, in an industry where firms are frequently assessed by their market cap or their VC funding or what have you, Apple actually has HUMONGOUS FAT STACKS OF CASH.
― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
agreed that this guy is a bit of a dick, he has unsavory triumphalist tendencies, and thinks various middlebrow stuff is the height of human achievement - however as to his core competency, i do believe hes one of the best writers on design out there today
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 03:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Chock full of SEO crap: My comment on Marco Arment's comment on John Gruber's comment on David Pogue's comment on Google's Chromebook.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 19 June 2011 08:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Has anyone read the marco aren't Phish post?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Damn autocorrect: Arment
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
however as to his core competency, i do believe hes one of the best writers on design out there today
he doesn't really do this any more though?
― caek, Sunday, 19 June 2011 10:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Got sick of his blog a while ago - but I have to admit his comment on the Chromebook is kinda on point, why does it deserve a "good try!" sentiment?
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 June 2011 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Gruber's predictions that don't come true are still reasonable and make sense when you evaluate the facts available at the time. He can't rely on his mysterious inside sources all the time, you see.
You don't have to believe me, just ask Gruber. He's always Gruber. I mean, right.
― mh, Sunday, 19 June 2011 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
― caek, Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:18 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah its not most of his posts, but when he does write a long piece i feel like he really gets where design is at re todays technologies
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 14:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
also hes a v good clear writer
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
chrisdejabet Chris De Jabet by daringfireballJust got complimented on my @daringfireball shirt at the Apple Store. Because I'm handsome.18 hours ago
*stabs twitter in the face*
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 19 June 2011 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
thought it was really out of line when this guy shot mr takagi
― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 19 June 2011 15:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
i really like gruber
which mac writers do you guys really like? i could use some more feeds in my google reader
― markers, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jean-Louis Gassee
― lukas, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
totally forgot abt him, thanking u
― markers, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
feel like this post embodies many of his less good qualities
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
how long till some shill links him this thread and ilx gets ~fireballed~
― summer is coming (cozen), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
one can dream
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
You are trying to view American McCarver on a shitty browser. Won't work.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 12:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Note that the UI screenshots are even set in Helvetica, not Arial. Some of the best evidence of good taste at Google I can ever recall.
duly noted.
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/28/google-plus-videos
― joe, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
guh arial and helvetica are like exactly the same shit stfu already
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
A friend shared this blog post on Google Reader: http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.html
I’d buy the NYT (for a mere $1.5bn!) and recruit John Gruber to be Editor in Chief of the “Yahoo! News” division.
I cried a little.
― mh, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh god, until I read that blog post in full I thought that was a joke, like forcing him to cover stories about Microsoft.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cringely's been half-nuts for years. Now I think he's full-nuts.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 30 June 2011 09:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
well, he's got a point
― caek, Thursday, 30 June 2011 09:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess it's not as bad as how he keeps referring to Paul Thurrott as a 'dick' purely because he writes about Microsoft.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 30 June 2011 09:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
cringelys nutsness is the best part of his shtick, guy is not afraid to think big
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think Cringely's being nuts there! Even if Jobs is showing pictures of full server rooms, it's not like he's shown pictures of the entire interior of the facility, and it's completely possible that it's not that densely populated.
― mh, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah but thats not some weird conspiracy designed to intimidate rivals, its just building out future capacity
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
p sure this dood killed caylee http://horace.dediu.usesthis.com
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 July 2011 03:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/cameronasshole
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/08/murdoch
"congratulations to the tories"
― joe, Friday, 8 July 2011 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
wish someone would put this asshole in a room w/paul thurrott and then they can mutually annihilate each other
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Friday, 8 July 2011 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe i've just been developing for legacy browsers too long at this point, but this kills me. laziest shit ever - you run a SPORTS BLOG ffs
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 8 July 2011 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
hey guys i saw you all on foursquare checking in here. hey wheres the drinks at. hey where are you all going. hey wait up
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:48 (1 week ago) Permalink
乒乓 you know you get to choose what you check into and when, rite
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:48 (1 week ago) Permalink
i dont get why foursquare has to be 'social'
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:50 (1 week ago) Permalink
rip paypal?
http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/
― caek, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:50 (1 week ago) Permalink
wish i had foursquare when i lived above a restaurant cause then i so wouldve been the mayor of that shit forever
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:51 (1 week ago) Permalink
hahaha
― markers, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:52 (1 week ago) Permalink
it goes 'your friend checks in here a lot so it's probably your thing' xp to 乒乓
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:52 (1 week ago) Permalink
paypal counters by now accepting bitcoins
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:52 (1 week ago) Permalink
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
thats pretty obnoxious i have much better taste than my friends
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:54 (1 week ago) Permalink
you can set it so it says 'your friend checks in here a lot so it's probably not your thing'
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:55 (1 week ago) Permalink
aaaaaaaahhhh now i understand *installs foursquare on my iPhone 5*
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:56 (1 week ago) Permalink
this is sort of random, but for example fucking livejournal was and is super easy to make fun of, but for the second half of my senior year of high school and my first year in college, it was actually a super profound service, because it let my friends and i write shit about our lives that only we'd see (via "friends only" posts), and it sort of enabled us to connect in a weird intimate way as a little group. that doesn't happen on facebook. that doesn't happen on tumblr. or at least not for me, not now. but for the time we were all on there it was something really neat, in retrospect.
― markers, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:57 (1 week ago) Permalink
not that foursquare enables anything useful, but maybe it does for someone.
it's not something i'm interested in using, personally
livejournal was cool i had a livejournal, in fact still do
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:57 (1 week ago) Permalink
lj was completely virtual tho, and anonymous (if u chose it), its the intersection of the virtual world and the real world that is gonna bring up some creepy and perhaps unexpectedly creepy situations and scenarios, a la foursquare
― 乒乓, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:59 (1 week ago) Permalink
facebook in its early days enabled some crazy shit
― markers, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:59 (1 week ago) Permalink
how do i get linkedin to stop sending me emails?
― caek, Thursday, 16 May 2013 01:59 (1 week ago) Permalink
im gonna tape my phone to a drone and check in all over town
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 May 2013 02:00 (1 week ago) Permalink
― markers, Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I did the autojournal thing, so i use foursquare disconnected from all social media mainly to note in my journal when i go somewhere interesting.
― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 16 May 2013 04:41 (1 week ago) Permalink
like, i can tell you that the only time you need to pay attention to jim dalrymple is when he does one of his "yep" or "nope" posts
Those one word yeps come off as so fucking haughty. Like "I will deign to address your rumour, but you shall get naught but one word from me, for I am so very important and my word shall be the final one on the subject." Ugh.
(even more annoying b/c like markers said he's normally right, which builds even more of a weird cult of personality around this dude who is basically a lonely beard just thinking baout angus young)
― sktsh, Thursday, 16 May 2013 09:08 (1 week ago) Permalink
I am starting to merge all these jokers in my head into one guy w/suspenders frustrated with his suboptimal coffee experience.
The Verge is far and away the best of a terrible lot, but even then the writing isn't a patch on even Wired in its heyday.
― stet, Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:13 (1 week ago) Permalink
i just totally did something at a place and forgot to check in on foursquare
― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:25 (1 week ago) Permalink
eugh
― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:47 (1 week ago) Permalink
http://brooksreview.net/2013/05/fucking-dogs/
― markers, Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:44 (5 days ago) Permalink
tbh I also don't like dogs, but I don't blog about it on a blog people have to pay for
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Saturday, 18 May 2013 02:48 (5 days ago) Permalink
Gruber and his ilk's smug self-satisfaction and complete lack of self-awareness make me more guilty about using Apple products than basically anything else.
Also, I hope Ben Brooks gets mobbed by dogs everyday for the rest of his life.
― avant-sarsgaard (litel), Saturday, 18 May 2013 08:46 (5 days ago) Permalink
excited to see gruber cover the tax stuff with the diligence he covered foxconn
― caek, Monday, 20 May 2013 22:23 (3 days ago) Permalink
You mean "here's Apple's opening statement?"
― schwantz, Monday, 20 May 2013 22:52 (3 days ago) Permalink
yes, it's "an interesting read"
― caek, Monday, 20 May 2013 23:19 (3 days ago) Permalink
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/05/21/senate-hearing
― markers, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:41 (2 days ago) Permalink
ohhhh boy.
― caek, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:13 (2 days ago) Permalink
looooooooool
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:40 (2 days ago) Permalink
oh my
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 20:10 (2 days ago) Permalink
oh jesus
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:53 (2 days ago) Permalink
― markers, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:22 (2 days ago) Permalink
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/05/21/mccain
― markers, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:23 (2 days ago) Permalink
us republicans hating change, whodathunk
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:38 (Yesterday) Permalink
McCain's joke-writers in fine form
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:49 (Yesterday) Permalink
John Siracusa @siracusa 32mNo cardboard sleeve on the Ponyo blu-ray. Upsetting.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:57 (Yesterday) Permalink
…
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:57 (Yesterday) Permalink
literally upset that the box his optical media disc came in doesn't have an extra piece of trash on the outside
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:58 (Yesterday) Permalink
upsetting
like, I dunno, reports of moderately-sized national disasters in distant states, or finding out that someone has been talking shit about you
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:59 (Yesterday) Permalink
sorry but i don't have time for people who dislike him
― markers, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 00:59 (Yesterday) Permalink
https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/336863716408705024
eh, I've said hyperbolic stuff on twitter too
siracusa's OS X writeups for Ars Technica obviously all classic, I just wanted to dump some mock rage on the internet
― 0808ɹƃ (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:00 (Yesterday) Permalink
ya siracusa is one of the better tech writers for sure i just thought that tweet was funny
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 01:05 (Yesterday) Permalink
― markers, Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i just want to dwell for a moment on what an amazing sentence this is
*dwells* d(-_-)b
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 02:48 (Yesterday) Permalink